She is one of the first sufferers to be implanted with electrodes in her brain that fire tiny electric pulses into the region believed to cause the muscle tics.
Sky News exclusively filmed the extraordinary operation, and then - six weeks later - the moment the electrodes were switched on.
Over a period of about 40 minutes the tics almost completely disappeared.
She said: "It is absolutely amazing. I do not feel I am the same person. I have had three years of getting worse. Now I have got my life back."
Read more: SKY News
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