So, I get these loud hiccup like things. Its not like a regular fit of hiccups it is just one, that is really loud. My grandmother, my mom, and I get them. So I know it has to be hereditary. It is kind of annoying. They are really loud and random. I get about 20-50 daily. I figured it's tourettes because it is a random invoulentary outburst. But all my friends say it is just hiccups.

You are confused about Tourettes. Tourettes is loud random outbursts of inappropriate language, swearing, etc. Your friends are right, it is just hiccups.

tick

Not all tourettes is outburst of inappropriate launguage. Try googling it.

Katie, I don't have to 'google it'. I know what the condition is, and entails.

You didn't ask a question, didn't ask for advice and if you already 'googled it', then what do you intend to do about the hiccups. Do you WANT TO HAVE A CONDITION which would differentiate you with your friends, do you want to be different in the way a condition would make you ?

What is your question and what is your purpose. So your mom and grandma do this too. They handled this 'affliction' as you would probably like to call it and moved on.

Again. What is your question ?

I love you to pieces, tickle, but I disagree. Sometimes Tourette's is manifested without the involuntary shouts and bad language. My older son had in his class for three years a boy who had been diagnosed with Tourette's that produced mostly facial tics and body-part jerks (arms, shoulders, legs). Jon occasionally grunted but voiced no shouts or bad language.

Katie, do you have any motor tics, whereby every now and then your shoulder jerks or a leg kicks out a bit? Are you able to hold back the hiccup for a while, but then finally you have to let go and a bunch come out all at once? Have you asked your doctor about your hiccups?

I only get one at a time usually. Every once in awhile I will get 2 or 3 in a row. I can not hold them back. This is a little hard to explain, but when I get the hiccup I have to breath in extra hard like, kind of like a gasp. So I move my shoulders and neck slightly. I did only start getting these this year. So I haven't had them my whole life. But others in my family have the same condition. I once knew a boy in high school who had tourettes, and he made gulping sounds so I figured I was in the same boat.

Or maybe some kind of involuntary throat spasm... Hmmmm...

I have tourette's, my father has it too, it is hereditery. Checheck out the link to educate yourselves!

Tourette Syndrome is a neurological disorder that strikes roughly 1 in 1000 children, usually between the ages of 6 and 9, but can occur as late as 21 years of age. It is more common in boys than it is in girls, and manifests itself in the form of facial and/or body "tics." Verbal tics are much less common in occurrence, but because of the disturbance and disruption verbal tics often cause in public, they are the most common symptom the unknowing public associates with the disease.

Ted

Tourette Syndrome Frequently Asked Questions

My girlfriend and her sister and dad get the same thing. It's sort of like a reverse hiccup. It's a hiccup thing.