Most Common Tourette Syndrome Symptoms
- Simple tics
- Coughing
- Barking
- Grunting
- Throat clearing
- Complex tics
- Repeating other phrases or words
- Using swear words, obscene, vulgar words
- Repeating each own phrases or words
Additionally, tics can be:
- Change by the time
- Vary in severity, frequency, and type
- Happens during sleep
- Get worse while you are anxious, excited, ill, tired, or stressed
- Worsen in the staring teenage years and enhances while the changing into adulthood
Before the onset of vocal or motor tics, you’ll like to face an uncomfortable bodily feeling (premonitory urge) like a tingle, an itch, or tension. The expressions while the tics give relief. With a lot of effort, few people having Tourette syndrome can hold or stop back a tic temporarily. Tics can be complex or simple. Simple tics might affect each or some parts of your body such as making a face or even blinking the eyes. The complex ones consist of various parts of your body or saying some words. Swearing and jumping are examples. The complex tics mostly consist of various body parts that might have a pattern. Some examples are bobbing the head, jerking an arm, and then start jumping.
Before the motor tic, you might attain a feeling that might feel like tension or tingle. The movement makes the feelings go away. You may be able to hold them for a while but you might not stop them from occurring. Doctors are not sure why, but almost half of that is experiencing Tourette also having symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). You might have difficulty while paying attention, completing tasks, and sitting still. Tourette’s syndrome might also lead to problems such as:
- Learning disabilities like dyslexia
- Anxiety
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) behaviors and thoughts you cannot control such as washing your hands again and again.
- People who are experiencing TS might have behavioral and mood problems, including:
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
- Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
Children that are experiencing Tourette syndrome might also be at risk of being bullied because their tics might keep them single, or have no friends. In most cases, tics reduce while early adulthood and adolescence and sometimes vanish entirely. Therefore, many people having TS experiences tics into elder age and in most cases, tics might become rough while adulthood. Although the media sometimes portray most of the people having TS as involuntarily screaming out words known as coprolalia or continuously repeating the words of other people known as echolalia. These symptoms are not common and do not require the diagnosis of Tourette syndrome.
Premonitory sensations
Most people who are having Tourette’s syndrome face a strong feeling before a tic begins that compares to the sensation you attain before sneezing or itching. These sensations are also called premonitory sensations. These sensations are only cures after the tic goes away. (3)
Some examples of the premonitory sensation consist of:
- Sore throat or dry throat before grunting
- A burning sensation in the eyes before blinking
- An itchy muscle or joint before jerking
Controlling tics
Some people might control their tics for a while in some social conditions such as in the classroom. It needs a bit of concentration, but surely gets simple with the practice. Controlling tics might be tough and tiring for some people. An individual might have an immediate release of tics after a tiring day to control them such as after coming back home from school. Tics might less noticeable while activities consisting of high-level concentrations like playing sports and reading an interesting book or magazine. (4)