Baylen Dupree said missing a day of her Tourette syndrome medication leaves her body feeling “all out of whack” and makes her emotionally and mentally worse. In an upcoming Baylen Out Loud episode, she says the effect is immediate enough that one skipped day changes how she feels for nearly a week afterward.
July 17 sneak peek
People shared the preview on July 17, setting up a TLC Tuesday episode that puts Dupree in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, with Colin Dooley. The scene centers on a simple but revealing difference between being treated and being off schedule: she says the medication helps her feel and sleep better, but missing it brings back the version of herself she used to know without it.
“In the past, I have missed maybe a day of medications. So having all of these emotions, it’s just my body being all out of whack,” she says in the preview. “That’s how I used to be unmedicated.”
Colin Dooley on medicated Baylen
Colin Dooley adds the clearest outside view in the clip: he says he “didn’t know unmedicated Baylen. I’ve only known medicated Baylen.” He also says, “You know that it’s something that I can perfectly handle and not freak out about,” which turns the episode from a private health note into a practical look at how a partner reads the difference in real time.
Dupree also says, “I got some sleep from my sleep pills so I’m definitely feeling physically better. Mentally, I’m still not feeling the best.” She says she will not start feeling like herself again until “a week and a half, maybe a week,” a timeline that makes the interruption sound less like a passing annoyance and more like a reset she has to wait out.
2020 diagnosis history
Dupree, who has nearly 13 million TikTok followers and nearly 3 million Instagram followers, has used her platform to raise awareness about Tourette syndrome and misconceptions around it. On a May 26 episode of Howie Mandel Does Stuff, she said she was diagnosed with Tourette syndrome in 2020 and later described a difficult path before the Mayo Clinic diagnosed her around five months later.
She also said a neurologist initially told her, “I have no idea what you have, but you don't belong in society. You don't belong in college. You shouldn't get a job. You shouldn't work. You shouldn't drive,” before later saying, “I can't even see you as a patient anymore because I don't even specialize in Tourette's.” That history gives the medication discussion sharper edges: Dupree is not speaking about a vague discomfort, but about a condition she has spent years learning to name and manage.
She and Colin Dooley later married on May 9, and the third season of Baylen Out Loud now turns a missed dose into the kind of domestic detail viewers can actually use. The episode airing on TLC Tuesday, July 21, answers the most practical question left open by the preview: what happens when a treatment routine slips, and how long she says it takes to settle back into place.
