I've booked a dr appointment out of concern for my DS but it's two weeks away and I'm just concerned, confused and wondering if anyone else has experienced similar and can help me understand what might be going on.
Within the last two weeks and most worrying:
DS has started having moments where he is blinking excessively, has involuntary neck spasms where his head will go towards his shoulder quite aggressively, having muscle cramps where both his arms will cramp inwards towards his body at the same time. He says he can feel it coming on and it's a whole body thing. Also he's been stuttering a little while talking.
If someone can help me to pick this apart I would really appreciate it as im really concerned.
these symptoms are clearly neurological in nature and I think he should he seen before two weeks time but the receptionist didn't think it was urgent enough. I think I'll call again tomorrow and ask for it sooner.
NB: for context
DS Has always struggled with thought process, decision making and safety awareness. He's very clumsy and accident prone and ends up making dangerous mistakes such as shutting the wire inside the toastie maker and blowing the fuse etc and many more besides. He can tie his laces, use a knife and fork and do up his buttons etc, indicating he does have fine motor skills but his handwriting has always been awful and he's unable at times to physically follow simple instructions such as kicking a ball with a certain part of his foot. This week he gave up trying to cut a chicken breast because he just couldn't do it even after we spoke on the phone for about 5 mins with him asking questions about how to do it. He asks a million and one questions about the most simple tasks as if he has no intuition/self assurance. It's not out of fear, we have a good relationship. It's just as if he's always doubting himself or actually doesn't know what to do. He often has trouble putting his thoughts into logical and understandable sentences and acts without thought of the consequences to others and then tells the most unthought out lies you can dream of to cover up something he's done and is shocked and angry when people don't believe him. Despite all this sounding awful, he doesn't have learning difficulties that we know of, in fact he's doing really well in school, and behaves well most of the time. He does the usual going out with his mates, he has a really nice, intelligent gf, he does all the typical teenage things, he's in the cadets and wants to join the army. Anyone would think he's just a normal, able, intelligent teenager at first sight. School haven't mentioned any concerns either. So while these things don't necessarily blight his life now, we do worry about how he will cope as an adult. In fact, we feel like the army will help him in a lot of ways. We try help him do as much as he can independently but he's always struggling one way or another to do something or understand something. He also seems to be very in the moment and has a distinct lack of consequential thinking. We've always thought its just kids/teenagers and that he will grow out of most of it but actually we're quite concerned that at 15 he hasn't seemed to grow out of any of these things and we will also mention this to the dr. We also have an 8 year old DS who now demonstrates more physical and mental capabilities than his brother in many ways which has opened our eyes that much of this might not just be typical teenage behaviour.
Since high school I've suspected dyspraxia and maybe adhd but the school don't seem concerned at all or that anything is affecting his learning. It's just as he's got older the disparity between him and his peers is much more noticeable