Ok, so i've basicly had some form of tic/twitching/grunting since birth, but it only got diagnosed as tourettes when i was 13 going on 14. (16 now) I have tried haloperidol, clonidine, Ritalin, fluphenazine and some others i can't remember. I was on about 12 to 14 tablets a day. And while they might of calmed the ticing and grunting/swearing down, i was turned into a zombie like state, hardly eating, sleeping and that's about it. I was on different set's of medication for about 1 year (I was doing GCSEs at this time) So i basicly missed one years worth of GCSE study, tests. We opted to be taken off the drugs, which took 2 - 3 months to slowly get me off. Due to the medication, i now have short term memory loss and can't actually think straight most of the time So the last year of GCSE's was tough for me, as i had 2 home tutors teaching me Maths, Science, and NVQ english Level 2 (see nas it was inpossible for me to catch up with The GCSE English) I was doing Art, EdExcel ICT, Animations as well. (When i finally got back to Art lessons, all my work had been lost) So i basiclly had to try to redo the first year of Art. I could only do half the ICT course because i missed a year of that.But in the end i got some pretty good GCSE results to say i quite liturally missed year 10. I got Double C in The Double Award for higher Science, C in Intermediate Maths, C in ICT, E in Art (you know why that is), A* in Animations . I passed the NVQ Level 2 English but am waiting to see what the GCSE equivilant is. I got the GCSE's i needed to get into the course in college i am going to do (National Diploma in Multimedia) Which i start next Monday!I don't take ANY medication now, i have got a very servre form of Tourettes, OCD, Short Term memory loss.But i have tourettes, tourettes doesn't have me!
I wouldn't mind meeting other people with tourettes =]
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