A Little about Me

Hey! I'm Lexie, and this is my life story!  My sophomore year of high school I was diagnosed with Complex Tic Disorder (CTD), which is under the spectrum of Tourette’s Syndrome.  I have six different motor tics, but no vocal tics.  My tics will change every few months or I will develop new ones.  It is very rare for someone to develop Tourette’s in his or her teen years and I have done every test in the book, but no one knows why I just woke up one morning and started to twitch.  I have tried all different medications, some of them help a little bit, but then the side effects become worse then the tics are.  As of right now, I am on no medication and I tic anywhere from 100-300 times a day.  I can suppress my tics for a short period of time.  But it is extremely mentally straining to hold them for more then about five minutes. The best way to explain them is like if you have to sneeze, you can hold it for a second, but its all you think about until you finally release it.