Can Anybody Give Me Suggestions To Help With Facial Tics?

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Ok, as most of u already know or u can just read in my signature, i have tourettes along with autism, but lately ive been having bad facial tics, which somehow gets me very giddy if i know im doing it, which makes me overly too excited to the point that i can't stop stimming... yes confusing, does anybody know of a therapy or a technique i can use to help me with my facial tics, that drives me to stim like crazy?

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Geesh, i have facial ticks to, I hope there is a way to stop them.

Most of the things I can think of, would probably just replace one tic with another.

Maybe playing poker? I'm sorry, that's a pretty crappy suggestion for a solution.

Once upon a time, a looooong time before the word Asperger's existed, I was a young lad with lots of facial ticks. I will always remember the first time a classmate made fun of it, I think I was 6 or 7.

I did find a coping skill, it might work for you. I moved the ticks to invisible areas. It's as if the ticks let off some sort of pent up energy in the brain, and that energy can be redirected.

Since ticks are semivoluntary, I could notice them and intercede. I would tense my jaw instead. Then the muscles in my andomen or shoulder (makes for a tight tummy!) If you try it, you may find you can satisfy your ticks in this way. If you practice, the new location may become automatic, as it is for me now. I can now relocate my ticks at will. Dancing ticks!

I still twitch like mad, probably once every 3 seconds. But nobody else knows that.

magnesium treats twitching. i don't know if it works for tics

I used to have a horrible one where I'd wink my eyes constantly.

Beat it with hypnotherapy, never to return!! I'd highly recommend it.

(Bear in mind it only works if you want it to; hypnosis simply uses the power of your own mind to 'suggest' things and reprogramme it. So if you don't think you can be hypnotised you won't be, simple as that. It's also impossible to be stuck in a trance or whatever they say in the films - it's just the state between waking and sleeping, so you do it twice a night anyway! I've seen people fall asleep after being in a trance too long, haha, snoring away on the couch... (My cousin is a hypnotist, I used to help him out sometimes.)).

Magnesium may help and I don't think it can hurt.

Here's a link to a paper called Facial and Eye Tics in Children:The Links to Magnesium Deficiency
http://www.ctds.info/tics.html

Here's a quote from it:
"When I changed his diet to include more magnesium rich foods and less magnesium antagonists, the tics, twitches and blinking totally cleared up in a few days."

According to the hypothesis below, magnesium deficiency may be very important in Tourette's syndrome.

Magnesium stops menstrual cramps - dunno about you but I know they're awful so even that would be a help I imagine to most women, even if the tics don't stop.

Wow thanks everybody for the advice, i'm going to try them all. I did take magnesium for awhile but stopped due to too many routine changes, maybe i'll start back up on that, and defintely try what everybody else said.

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How about botox? I know that it has some affect on the muscles of the face but you might need to ask someone more qualified here.

Ed Almos

My son had facial tics and he is taking fish oil - coromega on a daily basis. It took about a year, but he doe not have tics anymore. He is 11. I have also read that magnesium seems to help. A quick try: Take a epsom salts bath for 15 mins. 2 cups of salts in a bathtub. See if that makes any difference...you may have that on hand. If so, magnesium supplements may help you.
You need to do some research on how much and what type of magnesium is recommended. Magnesium Glycinate is probably the gentlest form of magnesium. A tic is an involuntary muscle spasm, so that why some people recommend magnesium. I would also look into vitamin b6.

Good Luck!

A mom with an Asperger's son.

I don't know of this is a tic, but you know when you stare at something, then stare at a white wall and the colour you've just stared at goes the opposite when you stare at the wall? Well, I don't know if any other Aspies (or NTs) do this, but I am always staring at the brightest thing in the room then staring at the wall to see it's opposite. I've been doing it ever since I was about 2 years old and I'm still doing it to this day. Usually I stare at a bright red or bright green object. It's getting annoying, but I find it I don't do it I find I get a pressuring urge to have to do it.

But at least others don't really know I'm doing it, so the tic is hidden.