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I don't necessarily disagree; I went undiagnosed with Tourette's as a kid while presenting symptoms for a good five years and I knew something was going on with

I don't necessarily disagree; I went undiagnosed with Tourette's as a kid while presenting symptoms for a good five years and I knew something was going on with me but I had no idea what it could be. Also, a good ~10 years after my tourette's diagnosis I was further diagnosed with cataplectic narcolepsy. I knew I had always had these weird symptoms (going spontaneously limp) that weren't well described by Tourette's, but I was grasping at straws to figure out what it was, and trying to self-diagnose I took myself down all sorts of blind alleys convincing myself I had this or that. Once I was able to get a conclusive diagnosis and actually helpful treatment, my narcolepsy symptoms got very well controlled, and then with that stressor off my back my tourette's symptoms finally became manageable without medication. All the symptoms are still "there" but knowing what I actually have -- and what I don't have -- was crucial to getting the right treatment.

derefr 5y ago
> I knew I had always had these weird symptoms (going spontaneously limp) that weren't well described by Tourette's I wonder how many people who have non-manageable Tourette’s have an undiagnosed comorbidity like this. Also, your specific case is interesting, because a comorbidity of a type of narcolepsy points more generally in the direction of an interesting cluster of sleep-related “parts of the brain’s sleep motor-inhibition filter turn on while others remain off” conditions, e.g. sleep-walking, sleep paralysis, etc. that — if it turns out a lot of other Tourette’s sufferers had [undiagnosed] comorbidities in this cluster — could potentially be a good fit for “recontextualizing” Tourette’s, or perhaps even finding a true etiology for it. Has anyone looked for these sorts of links, and/or studied Tourette’s from a sleep-neurology perspective?

derefr 5y ago

> I knew I had always had these weird symptoms (going spontaneously limp) that weren't well described by Tourette's I wonder how many people who have non-manageable Tourette’s have an undiagnosed comorbidity like this. Also, your specific case is interesting, because a comorbidity of a type of narcolepsy points more generally in the direction of an interesting cluster of sleep-related “parts of the brain’s sleep motor-inhibition filter turn on while others remain off” conditions, e.g. sleep-walking, sleep paralysis, etc. that — if it turns out a lot of other Tourette’s sufferers had [undiagnosed] comorbidities in this cluster — could potentially be a good fit for “recontextualizing” Tourette’s, or perhaps even finding a true etiology for it. Has anyone looked for these sorts of links, and/or studied Tourette’s from a sleep-neurology perspective?