Some years ago my dad and I were talking — I don't even remember how this got brought up — and he said something like "Well maybe your medications could have caused your Tourette's."
And I'm a freshman in college, taking English composition 1, doing a research paper for a "debatable question" pretty much. So it's literally for a question that people have opinions about — no right or wrong necessarily. So it could be something like "Can a smell make us negatively?" Or something along that line.
But this suddenly made me remember what my dad had told me. And it honestly kind of makes sense because there is absolutely no history of Tourette's in my family — only epilepsy.
So, of course I got epilepsy due to a history of it in my family. I was on Keppra (a seizure medication) and two others from the symptoms of the Keppra and have been diagnosed with Tourette's for around the same time as I was diagnosed with epilepsy — actually, I was diagnosed a long while after. It took about a year for doctors to diagnose me with Tourette's.
And we all know that Tourette's is supposedly "genetic" and hereditary and there's a 50/50 percent chance of your children to develop it or not. But if it's genetic, then why do we develop it starting at 5-10 years old?
Although there have not been many studies on this, there are some informational studies that I have have found to prove this possibility to be true. The links are pasted below if you would like to read them:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/255695458_Epilepsy_in_Tourette_Syndrome
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0891422215001766
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Some Info About TS (Tourette's Syndrome) and Tics
Kısa HikayeThis is a story to spread awareness for Tourette's and tics. I will write about what's going on in the world that involves Tourette's and tics.
