I've had motor tics for as long as I can remeber. If you can relate, then you should feel my anxiety and torture as well. I have had years of practice trying to overpower them and can gladly say that I have gained control of them pretty well. Now I wouldn't say too gladly since trying to control motor tics is stressful and a constant annoyance. I can be sitting in class for example and not for one minute that will I not be thinking non-stop about keeping themm under control (by them I mean the tics). And after a while it pisses you off. I was starting to tell my parents how serious they were getting and told my doctor as well. He perscribed me Clonodine and I thought I'd give it a try since it also helped with my ADHD as well. That didn't seem to help since I felt even worse and exhausted all day with only a slight decrease of tics which was when I tried to think of the side effects from the medicine as a good thing that was supposed to help. By the way, the medicne worked like shit and this was more of a placebo than anything. So I tried reading about helpful tips on this subject and have tried a few excersices but they weren't sattisfying my urge to get rid of this constant build up of spasms all over my body and not just the face or neck but almost everywhere. Then I told one of my friends that I wanted to try pot and at first it was just for fun obviously and had nothing related to helping my tics since at the time I had no idea that Marijuana could help in any way. After my first time I started to get curious on the history of Marijuana and the facts. So I started reading and a matter of fact I did a pursuasive essay on, "The Legalization of Marijuana." and you may shit yourself when I tell you this but in an English class of almost 40 people I was the only one who happened to get 100% on the assignment (and everyone had to write an essay). This may have happend because I was so mislead with adds on T/V and internet about how pot is potentially deadly and the negatives were so overstated with no convincing evidence, to show us how they can call something that is so harmless with astonishing medical uses, and call it "a killer threat." Aynway I used pot a few more times and last Summer I started to notice how pleasant I felt and how amazing it was not having to deal with severe motor tics for once and just simply enjoy life. This may sound pretty rediculous to you but you don't know what you have until it's gone, meaning in my case a normal life to a constant stress producing mind set where you think more about keeping a syndrome under controll more than anything else, and I mean anything. When a new pathway opened which was me finding a relief for my tics which so happened to be Marijuana I suddenely realised that I wasn't just doing it for the "high" but for the soulution to treating my problem. I honestly had no idea in the first place that pot can help with Turrets Syndrome or motor tics but I noticed my tics vanishing into thin air. From then on I wanted the pot for that reason instead since when ever I though of it I didn't think of the high feeling it might have given me but for one of the best feelings that I've ever experienced, a relaxed enviroment with no sudden jerks or twitches of my muscles. And that feeling has given me more hope than almost anything except for what I just happened to google just out of curiosity. Can you guess what that was? What I typed in or googled was "Marijuana and motor tics" and I almost pissed myself which kept me from going into shock. I found tons of related searches that have to do with Marijuana decreasing or relieving motor tics 50% +. Next, the articles showing the same kind of people with the same kind of problems that I was reading showed me that I'm not alone and that someone does understand and maybe even cares for what I or should I say "What We" have to live with daily. And know that I thought Marijuana helped me before reading these topics is even more overwhelming since now I can say that it does help without having to hear it from a proffesional, or anyone for that matter, in the first place. So what I'm saying is that I relized it for myself so I truly believe that it can work without having to try and believe what someone else says and just take their advice on it. An example would be when a doctor gives, say 30 people a medication for treating a problem and half of them are taking the real thing and the other half are taking a pill for a placebo kind of effect, in other words a fake pill that they think is the real thing and letting them use a mind over matter cure. So in my case there was no placebo effect and I found out that it helped me with no prior knowledge of marijuana helping tics. This is not my only problem though. When I was in 7th grade football there was an incident that lead me with almost severe back pain ever since. I had 3 M.R.I.'s done, a number of X-Rays, phisical therapy, and a few other tests. The results were strange though, I had 3 different answers to this. One was an extra large bone in my lower spine, another was a disk with little fluid, and one doctor said it was just a muscle spasm, while others concluded they saw no problems. Obviously those last doctors don't feel what I'm feeling almost every day. But I'm starting to think that somehow it may just be a mental kind of pain. This next problem of mine may be right up there with my motor tics. What I am starting to think of it as, is Insomnia. I hope it isn't Insomnia but I can't find any other answers for this. My doctor perscribed me sleeping pills that I take with a natural sleep promoting pill called Melatonin. These two medicines when mixed are very strong and puts me to sleep within a half-hour sometimes. But the perscribed medicine makes me tired during the day which is a problem since my ADHD pill Vyvanse makes me feel very mellow as well when it should do the opposite. Now without taking sleep aids I won't fall asleep the whole night unless I'm lucky. The most mysterious problem of mine is a constant adrenaline feeling I get and then causing me to take deep breaths and after letting my air out I feel hard/rapid pulse or heartbeat. This causes me great stress and anxiety for no good reason or any reason that I know of yet. I've tried eating better and not drinking pop or anything with caffeine along with plenty of exercise. So what were the end results? Well, there were no results or change in my anxiety level. But I was in a slightly better mood. For years I've had this problem and always thought it was normal until I started having anxiety attacks while not being able to think of a cause for them. This also makes it very hard to sleep as well. Last on my list of misery is my daily headache (Well for some extent not every day, but the majority of them). I remember vaguely since 4th grade, maybe even before that, I would get headaches and leave my classroom to go to the office for Advil or Tylenol usually 3 to even 5 times a week. I don't get the migranes that can decrease peripheral with white flashing light giving you sort of a tunnel vision. But I do get migranes. Sometimes I get such bad headaches that even Advil or Alieve can not get rid of them. And those are some of the stronger headache formula medicines. Now you might think I'm making this up and maybe I'm just using these symptoms as an excuse to abuse drugs and I have to agree that some people will do anything it takes to get high or a buzz. But I promise you that this is the whole truth and that I am asking for your help to lead me in the right/best direction to fix these problems that I have had for years. When I tell you this just try to understand before judging me as a terrible person. I have found that Marijuana has solved all of these problems. The tics are gone, the back pain I don't even think about, I can fall asleep fast and stay asleep for hours, the adrenaline and anxiety giving me stress disappears, and my headaches simply just float away. I just don't know what to say about this miracle drug Marijuana. It seems to be the only good solution for me. And if you do belive me then I thank you greatly, and you might think I live a life of pain and suffering, well it's not as bad as what you may guess since I'm used to dealing with it. So don't worry too much, I would just like to hear what you have to say or maybe add to this. Thanks for reading!