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01-04-2007, 12:28 PM | #11 | ||
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Thank you! 300 mg sounded like an awful lot but I am relieved that it is not a high dose! Thank you Chemar for your links - I found another site with lots of your helpful tips - I was up until 3 am reading as much as I could! I avoided medication for my own tics as the side effects seemed scarier than the tics themselves! Of course, by the time I found out I had TS - I was in my late teens and my tics had diminished a fair bit. What's most frustrating, is that now that I am nearly 40 my tics had almost disappeared...that is until my daughter started severely ticcing. Now I find my motor tics have returned a bit so I will also try some of your natural remedies. The epsom salt bath intrigues me and I will visit some vitamin stores to see if they carry some of the combinations you suggested. I am having a difficult time getting my daughter to swallow her iron pill whole so I am hoping I can find some sort of calcium/magnesium/zinc formula that comes powdered. It is wonderful finding this awesome resource. Thank you for your dedication and community-minded sharing!
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01-04-2007, 04:24 PM | #12 | |||
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I'm a little confused with this iron issue again. Sorry... Trying to figure something out.
Can someone explain to me again the difference between ferritin levels and serum iron levels... If a doctor was testing for anaemia would they test both ferritin levels and serum iron levels? and I thought there was a difference between having an iron deficiency/anaemia and having problems with the actual transport system in the body which usually sends our stored iron to specific areas of the brain? Stored iron is ferritin... right? |
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06-27-2007, 03:48 PM | #13 | |||
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Ferritin levels seem to be a bit of a hot topic at present with regard to RLS, TS and some other conditions so I thought I'd revisit an old topic here to answer my own questions just so it's on the board.
http://www.chemistry.wustl.edu/~edud.../Ferritin.html Iron Use and Storage in the Body: Ferritin and Molecular Representations Iron in Biology: Study of the Iron Content in Ferritin, The Iron-Storage Protein. Quote:
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01-04-2014, 02:51 PM | #14 | |||
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Just bumping this really old thread up for my own reference. Hope that's alright.
I also think the first link is outdated Chemar. Not sure I have the right one but I think the url is now http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/arti...&resultClick=3 Article | July 01, 2006 Ferritin Levels and Their Association With Regional Brain Volumes in Tourette’s Syndrome Daniel A. Gorman, M.D.; Hongtu Zhu, Ph.D.; George M. Anderson, Ph.D.; Mark Davies, M.P.H.; Bradley S. Peterson, M.D. Am J Psychiatry 2006;163:1264-1272. edited to add: more here ... http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/post1041370-86.html Last edited by Lara; 01-04-2014 at 05:55 PM. |
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10-28-2014, 10:36 PM | #15 | ||
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I've had tourettes\ocd since I was about 10. I'm 36 now. I found out about a year and a half ago my ferritin was sky high. I have hemachromatosis. So in my case the tics and ocd aren't related to ferritin.
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