So, I've been off my meds for close to a year now because I've been trying to get pregnant. I wasn't planning on being off my meds this long without actually conceiving, but I also deal with hypothyroidism and that was out of wack for a few months and my periods took forever to come back after I stopped my birth control. 

I've been managing fine off my meds, but as of recent, I've developed a couple of (what I think are) motor and verbal tics that I wasn't sure was normal as I'm 23, and I know it's not typically common for someone my age. 

I've been doing some research online, and talking to my boyfriend of five years who's been through this entire journey with me to make sure my dates add up because my memory is pretty horrible.

That being said, here's the brief history of my meds and these tics. 

Starting in 2010, back when I was in middle school, I started getting something I called a "cold chill" where even in the dead heat of summer, I'd suddenly shiver, and shrug my shoulders. I didn't think anything of it then, and most days I still don't even though I've been doing it for 12 years. 

In 2012, I started on Celexa for my depression. When that med didn't work out because I was at the max dosage, they switched me over to Lamictal in 2013. In 2014, I got my bipolar diagnosis at the age of 15 because of the severity of my symptoms and me having a family history through my no-contact mother's side (as I've said in previous posts, I'm third generation bipolar; my mother has it and so does my grandmother). That same year, I was put on Seroquel for my insomnia, and Gabapentin for anxiety. 

I've been on that same cocktail of meds for years with minor dosage adjustments over time. When I stopped them a year ago, I was 100 mg of Lamictal twice a day, 200 mg of Seroquel at night, and 400 mg of Gabapentin in the mornings. 

As spring turned into summer, work got more stressful, I dove into full time work with very little personal time, and I noticed I started getting these weird quirks with my cold chill. I brushed them off because I didn't think it was all that serious, but it slowly became more noticable to coworkers, customers, and people around me. Mainly because I'd be in the middle of something, and in the midst of doing whatever task it was, I'd shiver, shrug my shoulders, throw my head back, and let out a  audible, high-pitched, "Woo," noise; sometimes I'd also roll my eyes in the back of my head while all this was going on.

The cold chill existed while I was on the meds, but the throwing my head back and making noise was never present. None of it started getting bad until I stopped the meds. 

During this time as well, I was also dealing with being sick all the time with no real diagnosis besides extremely upset stomach, constantly nauseated that I originally thought was Seroquel withdrawal, but turns out I have a ton of food intolerances that didn't rear their heads until now. 

The cold chill and all it's parts are the only "tic" I really have, but it's gotten to the point where it's a nuisance and it feels like something I *have* to do, like a sneeze; with me, once it starts, there's no stopping it. Sometimes when I throw my head back, it's done so aggressively that it pops my neck. Sometimes I'm able to suppress it, but it only happens more frequently when I do suppress it, and even then, it's not a full suppression; I still have the shivering and shrugging of the shoulders, but it's like it's missing parts and it keeps coming up until I do the whole thing. 

I've read that Seroquel can cause people to develop tics after stopping it, and in a way, it kind of peeves me because the only reason I developed insomnia was because of the vivid Lamictal nightmares I had.

Has anyone else dealt with this issue though? I'm just a little frustrated because I'm having to explain this weird quirk of mine to my new coworkers, but I'm not trying to tell them my entire life story right off the bat, and it shows up a lot, especially since I'm still a totally new person at this job and I get stressed out very easily learning everything new. 

Any advice would help. I just don't like feeling like I'm alone since I'm already a whole mess of mental health issues on top of my bipolar.