[YEA]  06/08/2011: Adk Mama from Long Lake, Ny-usa: "Just a note regarding magnesium and Tourettes.... A friend of mine has a little boy who began exhibiting tics with his head and neck. He and his parents were frustrated because they were reluctant to keep him on the meds prescribed for him as he became more irritable and clumsy. His parents took him off the meds and began supplementing his diet with a magnesium supplement every evening. I had recommended they check with their doctor to try magnesium and fish oil as we use these supplements for our family (but not for tics, only muscle cramps etc. ). He is not taking fish oil yet.

The very noticable tics have disappeared, he is now able to sleep through the night, has no headache complaints now and is performing better academically. He seems like a different child... Happier. He has only been taking the magnesium for around 2 weeks now. Best wishes to you all!"

03/18/2011: Healthy Momma from Wonder Puddle, Usa: "Greetings! I love this website and visit frequently for suggestions and feedback on ways to treat my family's illnesses and issues, but this time I'm not finding much! Please help!

My husband, who is currently in his early 30's, was diagnosed with Tourettes around the age of 8. The Tourettes went away on its own when my husband was around 11. He had multiple tics, such as excessive eye blinking, throat clearing, shoulder jerking, etc. He feels that the tics are coming back now.

I have no idea if the following is in any way related, but he was recently very sick with what a Dr. diagnosed as a bacterial infection, but seemed like a horrendous flu. My husband is never sick. He usually has a very solid immune system. An illness that has everyone dropping like flies doesn't usually touch him. Well this time it did and he was given the Z-pack. After that had no results the Dr. then diagnosed him with a urinary tract infection on top of the bacterial infection and gave him two different muscle relaxants and Levaquin. It just seems very suspicious to me that for a man who has never been sick throughout our 13 year relationship/marrige, that the one time he is sick, not only is he terribly ill, but his tics begin to resurface.

We would really appreciate some advice on natural ways to control or mitigate these tics! Please help!"

[YEA]  12/11/2009: Sid Davis from Springfield, Missouri, Usa: "While visiting my daughter at Thanksgiving time 2008, we noticed my then 7 year old grandson was making strange involuntary movements with his head. He would with some frequency jut his chin forward and upward, and then move it a little from side to side to stretch his neck. Again when we returned at Christmas time it was even worse, being more frequent when he was quiet than when active. It continued until summer of 2009 and suddenly by mid summer disappeared.

We noticed that the head movements began again by the end of October, 2009, this time with the addition of movements with his fingers like he was hand milking a cow. He complained of his fingers hurting from the movements which he could not stop.

My first thought was that there might be a seasonal factor or possible either the physical or emotional environment at school. One thing I thought about was the florescent lights in the school which are not full spectrum.

As an experiment in early November, 2009, we began giving him 2,000IU vitamin D3 capsules, three a day since he weighed about 80lbs. Our thinking was that maybe he was getting enough vitamin D from the sun in the summer, but not in the autumn and winter. An after some more research we added one 250mg Magnesium tablet per day beginning a few weeks later and a 5,000IU vitamin A capsule every other day.

So here we are 10 days into December, and for the last week we have not noticed any tics. I realize it is harder to observe something that isn't there than to notice something that is, so we are tentative in our certainty about this cure working, but excited nonetheless.

I will post again in two months, hopefully to confirm that this truly has worked. If anyone else is experiencing this problem, please post your results if you try the vitamin D3, Magnesium, Vitamin A treatment."