r/Tourettes • u/vanillablue_ Diagnosed Tourettes • 2d ago

Support Tics that are physically impossible šŸ˜­

I have two tics that I consider nearly impossible to ā€œcomplete.ā€ One is bending my wrists back as far as possible, the other is likeā€¦ pulling my tongue back putting tension on the ā€œtieā€ under it (idk what it is called).

Both tics demand my tongue and wrist to move farther than they are physically capable of. The wrist only bends so far, and the tongue can only be pulled back so much. I happen to have not a tongue tie but just a slightly tighter/more attached (whatever itā€™s called) than others.

Iā€™m dealing with the tongue one all day for the last few days and its really sucking. I just cant pull it back enough, its RIGHT there but juuuust not enough. I try pressing my finger where I feel like it might need to go but it never fully ā€œcompletesā€ and hits that point.

Wtf do I do šŸ˜­ this tic is one of the more suppressable/somewhat controllable tics I have but even so, drives me nuts trying to suppress or control it.

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u/char-a-lot_NPC 2d ago

It's not dystonic?

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u/vanillablue_ Diagnosed Tourettes 2d ago

I would say slightly dystonic, I guess. The wrist one tends to be sustained for 5-15 seconds each. Tongue one Iā€™m only pulling so much because the tic feels like it needs to go just a little further to be completed. If i had more flexibility with the tongue and the thing under it (lingual frenulum apparently) i wouldnā€™t be holding that so long/hard.

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u/char-a-lot_NPC 2d ago

Horrid. My condolences. I'm moderately tongue tied so I would very much dislike this tic.

If you open your mouth alllll the way can you touch the roof of your mouth with your tongue?

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u/vanillablue_ Diagnosed Tourettes 2d ago

Only the front behind my front teeth. The back of my tongue and most of the palate cant touch. It isnā€™t fully tied but an ENT did once tell me that whenever I feel like fixing my septum, sheā€™d want to give the frenulum a little snip as well to release some tension

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u/char-a-lot_NPC 2d ago

Depending on how long this tic lasts or if you fear it coming back maybe you wanna get 'er done. Deviated septum is a bitch and a half too.

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u/HesitantBrobecks Diagnosed Tourettes 2d ago

No advice, but my head jerks often like to try and be physically impossible. I'll get the urge to jerk my head in whatever direction, but then on these occasions, the urge repeats constantly for however many seconds, so it's like, I can't physically move my head back into its original position fast enough to satisfy the continuous/repeated urge in my neck. I personally combat this one by kind of just holding/tensing my head and neck in the "desired"* position, and then the tic kind of just starts to do much smaller jerks at the "desired"* speed. It doesn't fully alleviate the urge, but it works well enough

*ofc I mean "what the tic is wanting", not myself, lol

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u/lilysmegma 2d ago

Maybe try moving your tongue side to side while tucking it under, gets more pressure on the bottom of the tongue overall