Last week, I got on the phone with a girl who's been suffering from a mysterious medical

problem.

I'm Kayla Thompson.

I'm 17.

I live in Sugarland.

Texas, Kayla's problems started last November.

All of a sudden, I started having a very small little necktick.

A sudden jerking movement in her neck, the Kayla couldn't control.

And over the course of about a week, those neckticks became more frequent and more severe

to the point where my ear was almost touching my shoulder.

And my neck would be so sore I could barely turn it from it happening constantly.

Every 10 minutes I'd have a two minute spasm of my neck not being able to move.

These ticks started happening to Kayla all the time, at home, at school, in the car,

in bed.

And they were quickly getting worse.

It went from necktick to I had my first full body tick that Friday, I think, or Thursday,

very quickly became more severe.

For a while, I couldn't even go upstairs to my bedroom without my parents being there

because we didn't know what was going to happen. How did you feel at a loss?

I had no idea what was happening.

For many months, the doctor she went to weren't sure what was happening either.

We were bouncing between doctors, between every kind of doctor, and everyone was just like,

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