SirTwitchalot
08-05-2007, 03:30 AM
For the sake of sequential example let me describe a step by step account of a average neck tic bout, for example just a second ago while typing, I had 2 hard jerks of my neck to the left, a strong head butt backwards to the right (which tipped me almost out of my chair), three quick head nods tilting downwards, a intense bout within a bout of hard head shaking (like one would turn their head to indicate the answer “NO” over and over) while my eyes retracted hard within the back of my skull, 4 hard head tosses to the right, and finally three hard snaps with my neck retracting and nodding so hard to my chin that I received a cramp in my throat, that I had to abate by pressing my thumb for 3 minutes straight with severe pressure to relieve. This bout all happened in about 15 seconds and will probably repeat in a similar fashion another 5 or 6 times in the next 5 minutes. Important to note is the many minor tics also involved at an integrated respect in the neck tic bout, one being the eye tic elements. For my eyes usually foreshadow the direction the necks tics will take, indicating the foreseen route by retracting, pulling of turning in the direction the neck tics decide to follow. The people that know me can watch the involuntary pinning eye tics begin, and they will know a bout is coming. My eyes will retch and roll themselves for example up and towards the back of my skull, exhibiting I speculate a similar visual aspect like an epileptic would assume at the point of onset of a seizure. Sometimes the eyes will roll first up and into the back of my head, they reach a point, a roadblock point, while the whites of my eyes only show, while they pin and lock themselves momentarily before they squeeze and release the neck tic, much like pulling a noose up until the point where the victim is lifted onto the tips of their toes, then pulled up harshly, in my case that’s when the neck tics engage. These eye leads are the warning signs to the bouts starting with my neck, the eye restrictions, pinning, squeezing, hard winking alone is discomforting and displeasing. They will curl up and right to fire off a rough neck tic to the right and so forth, otherwise they lead in a dyslexic way, pulling counter direction as my neck follows the opposing way. Much as I have said before each and everyone of the severe neck tics have a unreal, unnatural power and force to them, causing a misalignment in my neck posture, One unfortunate neck whip and I am wrecked for the entire day, it only takes one bad one to pop throw out my neck, causing thereafter a searing muscular rush, compromising the neck with muscular inflammation and stiffness and my necks range of motion become very limited, which is a shame for my neck needs some room to ride this ******* waging wave. Without the range of motion a few things tend to happen, one neck tic usually will stay approximately symmetrical and closely verbatim in frequency and count. Then the marked cracked zone of torn aggravation becomes a knot that attracts even more tics necks. A very crucial point to be made is the lesser known, yet vital knowledge that TIC ACTIVITY WILL GRAVITATE TO A POINT OF INJURY, whether that injury is a direct result of a motor tic (this is mainly the case with my TS) injury or an isolated injury not a result of a motor tic, motor tic activity is known to increase in levels and severities in that spot. In my case that would be multiple spots, for my tics cause obvious damage to the area that it nests within and the double whammy is also obvious as more tics attack that same initial point of entry. These zones of tic damage will almost beckon and draw more tics to that spot all because of that first strike to an area in my body. In conclusion, nothing will make me tic more than ticking. The first few substantially harsh tics I suffer at the beginning of my tic day and the other areas that to will be hit hard later in that day, will be my “tic zones” all that which will gravitate more tics in those areas. The end result in a vicious cycle that is as perplexingly frustrating to withstand as it is mathematically painful at the days end. That is why most often when I decree “oh no” after a hard neck tic, it is not the dread of the instant, it is the dread knowing that is where I shall expect bulk of tics to be that day, further frustrating is when I have 5 different hard tics in five different places. I should not have to spell out the endless cycle that is perpetuated throughout the week when these zones are hit in succession and or randomly, and I stand no down time for any of those spots to heal up or bounce back so the gravitation factor is extinguished. There is to be no rest for me, seemingly ever to rejuvenate, before the next wave of battery starts. Perhaps as simple and cliché as the insect bite metaphor is when it is often applied to the sensation of premonitory modes, in that respect will become the focus of the involuntary necessity to tic. To tic becomes so overpowering one must scratch at it despite the counterproductive result of doing so by appeasing the bite. In the case of a re-offending tic activity patterned to a spot that original had the first strike dealt, only further bouts can and will occur at that pattern and area. The result is areas producing more tics and with compounded damage effects to that specified trauma zone.