Prior to last October, 17-year-old Thera Sanchez was a cheerleader for LeRoy Junior-Senior High School in New York. She was in excellent health, which makes what happened next very weird. On October 7, she woke up from a nap and had uncontrollable Tourette-like symptoms that have yet to go away as of today.
It has also been reported that she is not alone in this problem as 12 other girls at the high school are experiencing the same set of symptoms. These symptoms include outburst, tics, and shaking.
“I used to cheer every day … I used to go to two art classes every day,” Sanchez said. “Now I’m not in school.”
Health officials from New York said that they have investigated the school but did not find anything that could have caused the strange illness to occur in 13 students.
“The investigation has not revealed environmental or infectious causes as the origin of the students’ illness,” Jeffrey Hammond, spokesman for the New York State Department of Health, said.
Sanchez and Katie Krautwurst appeared on the TODAY show to talk with Ann Curry about the sudden onset of the symptoms and how frustrated they are about not being able to find a cause or cure for the strange illness.
“I’m very angry, I’m very frustrated, no one’s giving answers,” Sanchez told Curry on the TODAY Show. Sanchez also told Curry that she was informed her condition is caused by extreme levels of stress.
No one knows that the girls have but the symptoms they are experiencing are right in line with Tourette Syndrome. This syndrome has symptoms such as head-jerking, throat-clearing, yelling, eye-blinking, eye-darting or shoulder-shrugging. All of these are uncontrolled by the person, according to the Mayo Clinic.
The symptoms usually appear between the ages of seven and ten and the condition is more common for men than women.
The Migraine Headache sympton is often caused by Excitotoxins, according to Neurosurgeon, Dr. Russell Blaylock, in his fine book, “Excitotoxins – The Taste That Kills”, and Excitotoxins excite the body’s Nerve Cells similar to Tourette Syndrome!
Has anyone considered a parasite infection?? If that many girls have the problem, it’s something they encountered in the environment, no doubt about it! Most definitely parasite infections show those symptoms. Should also take a “walk back” through the days and weeks before and consider environmental exposure (lead, mercury, etc). The medical community uses terms like “hysteria” and the like for things they honestly have no answer to but want to put a label on.
As Thera said, it’s not necessarily a psychological occurrence. You don’t go to bed one night, wake up the next morning with UNexplainable physical symptoms when you were okay the days, weeks leading up to what’s happened to you now. Watch Thera and friend and Thera’s mother, both on Dr. Drew and it was so painful to watch. Maybe eventually, the public will learn what has REALLY happened to all these girls.
I agree with Raean, Jan. 21, 2012.
I went to school in France in 1983 and came down with similar symptoms after living next to a mental hospital. There were other kids coming down with similar symptoms. My turning point was after visiting the perfume factory in Grasse and sniffing all the perfume which I think may have weakened my immune system along with stress from school making me vulnerable to parasites, viruses, lyme, etc. Interestingly, I had had mono about a year and a half, before, which also weakened my immune system. Dear friend, testing will not show anything. Some diseases hide in the spiritual realm, although they are physical, and the only way to fight them is by treating them as if they do show up on tests. I reccommend Garden of Life’s founder “Rubin” and his book “healing your digestive health” and his other books. The chicken soup and liquid clay detox can work wonders if monitored by an openminded doc, but you have to really find your own way and there are not to many doctors out there that can help because of regulations, laws, and fear. You have to be your own doctor. I still have my mystery illness, but It has gotten better by adjusting my lifestyle and diet, spending time treating it and being aware of it, mental health therapy, exercise, fresh air, low stress, lots of sleep, medication, church understanding that it is not all in my head, lowering expectations of achievements and work, as I continue to look for a cure.
Good Luck!
Did any/all of them get the Gardisil vaccine?
What do the girls have in common?? High School girls usually do things in Packs.. Are they on the same diet, for example, are they vegetarians or vegans?? Are they not washing there new clothes before they are wearing them (toxins in the clothing need to washed out prior to wearing). Are they all taking a “designer drug” that they don’t want to tell there parents.. I also work with education on EMF’s (electro-magnetic frequencies).. School in La Quinta California was found to be killing students & teachers (in certain rooms) with cancer from the wiring that was running through them..(Prevention did an article on it).. Bottom line they have something in common weather it is nutritional deficiences, drugs or medications or environmental issues.. There is always an answer if you look deep enough, pay attention to details and think outside of the box.. Bet Dr. Joel Wallach could figure it out!!