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Dementia
posted by susan on 20 Mar 2009 at 10:06 pm
Some dementias are caused by vitamin deficiency or other health problems and CAN BE REVERSED.
Certainly physicians should screen for B12 deficiency and at least attempt to treat with B vitamins before using drugs.
Why is this form of dementia not discussed and the possibility of misdiagnosis and simple treatment for other forms of dementia?
"Reversible conditions with symptoms of dementia can be caused by a high fever, dehydration, vitamin deficiency and poor nutrition, bad reactions to medicines, problems with the thyroid gland, or a minor head injury. Medical conditions like these can be serious and should be treated by a doctor as soon as possible."
Read the news article that this opinion was posted about:
What is Dementia? What Causes Dementia? Symptoms of Dementia
Diagnostics For Dementia
posted by davina on 14 May 2009 at 12:31 pm
It seems to me, that the actual diagnostic tests for the disease are subjective at best.
Everyone would benefit from an infallible early detection service. This needs to be more than a psychological exam. We must look for a chemical/cellular test for this illness.
We need something quick, simple, and cheap, like the test for TB, the x ray, the pregnancy test, to name a few.
If we have easy quick access to such early detection systems, then we can carefully plan and prepare for the worst, which will, without fail, come.
dementia
posted by ursula smith on 02 July 2010 at 3:52 pm
hello, i feel you. my mom starts having dementia too. she lives in the past sometimes and compares everything with former times. everything from back than comes to the surface and she talkes about it for a long period of time. well, in former times it was so and so. also her personality changes like the wind. she can get rude, than like a little kid and than she knows all the answers. i visited her last year and it wasnt like expected. have patience and love, even, if she doesent it realize anymore. yet she knows everyone and likes to work in the garden. i think she is in the early stages.
Dementia to Parkinson's?
posted by Geoff Tucker on 14 July 2010 at 12:29 pm
My wife had a stroke in September 2006 which was not diagnosed as a stroke until 2008 when dementia started setting in. It started with small lapses of memory and then developed to the point where she now hardly knows anyone but does seem to recognize them without knowing who they are. She recognizes photos of family members but does not know their names. Two weeks ago she was diagnosed to have Parkinson’s disease and the doctor says it was almost certainly brought about by the increasing dementia damaging her brain cells. She is not responding to any of the usual Parkinson’s medications.
The question is: will the degeneration eventually be the cause of her death because of the damage to motor cells which could stop her heart or stop her breathing? She will be 76 on the 18th August.
Mother with Dementia
posted by BECKY on 28 Aug 2010 at 6:45 pm
To whom it may concern: my mother is ninety three years and started with dementia. I find it easier on everyone, to just agree with her in everything she says. It's heart breaking to see her so confused but at this stage of her life, making her comfortable and loving her is what they deserve after they did everything for us.
Need help
posted by Cindy on 02 Sept 2010 at 5:01 pm
My uncle is acting way different than what some of you are talking about. Can dementia make a person rude and mean AND see things. He said one night that he feels like something wrong, we asked him what do you mean and he replied He wont let me talk. We asked who wont,let you talk.
He said it was this dark thing in his head. We took him to 2 different clinics.They finally found that is arteries are clogged 70%, but the things like hearing people in this head what is that. Today he said that those people at the clinic stold his sole. We know he had a small stroke. He is going to has the clogged arterys by open heart surgery. And we were told that what is going on right now, have nothing to do with the stroke. Do you think this is dmentia????
My Grandpa
posted by shawnna on 10 Sept 2010 at 7:39 am
My grandfather was diagnosed 4 years ago with dementia. Just over the past few months he has gotten incredibly worse. My grandmother has been caring for him but can no longer do so. My family is pulling together to try to help and we are trying to learn as much about this disease as we can. What is the best advise you can give us to help us deal with him and also how do you know when its time to possibly find a nursing home for him?
Can dementia make a person rude and mean AND see things?
posted by Mrs. B on 16 Sept 2010 at 8:32 pm
YES. Look up Lewy Body Dementia, which causes visual hallucinations (seeing things).
My mother
posted by Celina on 25 Sept 2010 at 6:57 pm
My mother was diagnosed with lung cancer just this past March which has spread to the head already, she was treated with radiation for a couple of weeks and now has been having chemo treatmenst. About 6 weeks ago now she starting saying and doing strange things and at times is very afraid, crys, has trouble sleeping, sees things, very rude. Her cancer Dr. thinks she has developed dementia or the effects of the ratdiation. It has been very very hard for my entire family that from one day to another a person that was very active to see her now she can not do things for herself, she needs 24 hr care and my poor dad can't do too much as he is 82 years and my my 72. Dementia not only destroys the person affected by the disease but the entire family, it is not the same seeing mom that way.
Mini stroke symptoms
posted by Jehnavi on 21 Oct 2010 at 4:23 am
Dementia is a problem in the brain, making it hard to remember a person, learn and communicate. After a while , this makes it difficult to manage the person himself. Dementia can also cause human mood and personality changes. Before memory loss and trouble thinking clearly may bother the person who has dementia. Later, disruptive behavior and other problems can begin. A person who has dementia may not be aware of these problems.
my dad, dementia
posted by mary on 20 Nov 2010 at 3:42 pm
My dad is 69 years of age, just for the past 3 months he started getting very sick, said he wanted to kill himself, and was put at the hospital, they found out it was dementia, I cant' understand in three months they figure it out, what happen? He is always scare, and very forgetful. I fell for everyone, I AM SORRY, and hope everything turns out okay.
My Grandpa posted by shawnna on 10 Sep 2010 at 7:39 am
posted by vicky on 04 Dec 2010 at 7:05 am
contact your local social service for advice and speak to your grandads community pyschiatric nurse.
Janice Hicks
posted by janice Hickingbotham on 21 Dec 2010 at 1:48 am
My father has dementia. Can this be caused by his lack of maintaining his diabetes type 2, and/or can a stress event cause it such as wife moving away after 49 years of marriage cause this disease?
My Dad Dementia,,,
posted by johnna reed on 04 Jan 2011 at 9:50 pm
Well I get on here and I find a lot of people like myself that are going through the pain of someone they love, going through the stages of dementia, I never understood this , until the hurt and pain of seeing my dad , go from knowing people to not knowing them , and the mood changes , to thinking people were after him to harm him , and thinking he was somewhere else , this has been very devastating for me to see my dad , go from having it all together , responsible for himself to not being able to , to be himself anymore , I cry over him a lot , and it does not take a year for major changes to occur w/ this ,my dad changes daily w/ this .
He sees things and really thinks things are happening to him ,that are not happening to him ,it is so pitiful ,to see this happen to someone you love ,because there is great fear in this ,for the person effected by dementia ,as well as the loved ones who see this happening to their loved one , it’s heart breaking ,and can be very depressing for families, to see their loved one go down w/ this ,I’m having a very hard time w/ this as others are ,my dad went from being a police officer ,and very active ,to this scared ,not remembering things ,or me @ times ,and it gets worse every day.
I feel people need to speak out more about this devastating thing called dementia ,because it attacks not only the one who has it ,but families all over the world ,and to me there’s no way of getting a handle on this ,because of the drastic changes ,that occurs w/ this .it is so very sad ,to watch a loved one ,go down w/ this ,and families that are going through this need support ,to help them try to cope w/ this , I took the time to write this ,so maybe I could help others who are affected by the hurtful devastation of this terrible thing called dementia ,to me it’s like a nightmare, to see this happening to my dad, there’s much pain w/ dementia ,because your loved one is never the same any more ,and I have a battle w/ hurt everyday, because I’ve lost my dad, to dementia .GOD bless all who are battling this , I understand your pain ,love johnna reed.
PD and Dementia
posted by Savita on 27 Jan 2011 at 9:31 am
Curious to be in the loop as most of the symptoms are similar to my father's condition.
Dementia increases when away from home.
posted by Donna on 11 Feb 2011 at 9:40 am
Dementia symptoms have become progressively worse since being hospitalized for a wrist fracture surgery. Would inpatient rehab make her Dementia worse rather than her going back to her familiar home with in home aid?
Dementia
posted by kathryn on 13 Feb 2011 at 7:58 am
Medication ie statins causes memory loss memory returns when discontinued.Also anemia cause memory loss either because of medication or diet.Vitamin b deficiency will also result in memory loss and confusion especially if vitamin b1 is reduced in the diet one of the reasons are antacid medication and proton pump medications ie omaprazole.
Conspiracy
posted by Ann Alexander on 14 Feb 2011 at 10:41 am
My 83 year old mother fell and broke her elbow. We noticed after the operation that she believes there is a major conspiracy to harm her and talks in code form so that 'they' don't understand her. According to her her phones have been tapped. Could this be the onset of dementia.
Dementia
posted by angie on 16 Feb 2011 at 7:23 pm
Yes it could be dementia my husband and I just learned to day his mother has dementia and she is seeing things that’s not there but I cannot say about hearing the voices in the head do to the fact my mother in law is talking but the way she is talking we can’t understand what she is talking about but it makes sense to her but we can’t understand it and yes there is mood swings with it and memory loss to I hope this little bit of information has helped.
Need Help
posted by Zukiswa Lamani on 17 Mar 2011 at 5:30 pm
My father is 67yrs and has been diagnosed with Dementia. My stepmother chased him away she doesn`t want to take care of him because everything is loose. What can I do because this is coming to my nerverse. Please I need help.
how do i help my loving mom
posted by kenny on 22 Mar 2011 at 1:04 pm
my loving mom likes to wander away from my house . she leaves in middle of the night. she is 84years old.
i'm afraid she goingto be hit by acar or worse.
Brain
posted by Wendy carter on 31 July 2011 at 3:57 pm
What happens to the brain with Dementia? My grandma has been diagnosed with Dementia. Sometimes she is mentally with us but mostly she isn't. Someone told me people with Dementia have holes in their brain where the disease eats it away.
Inability to Recollect
posted by Godwin on 01 Aug 2011 at 2:26 am
I am 42 years old, From what i read about dementia above,my case mighty not be Dementia. But my problem is that i cannot recollect or reproduce any thing i read.i have very very poor retentive memory. is this also part Dementia?and how can i improve upon my retentive memory.
coping - memory loss started after my mother's fall
posted by Susan G on 23 Aug 2011 at 1:40 pm
My mother is 94 she had fallen when she was 90. The memory loss began after that. She began to get her medications mixed up and just was not the same. My sister was living in the same town with her and could not deal with her frustration over things and would argue with her. My mother began to scream at my sister. She needed to be placed in a nursing home but I wanted to bring her home with me. After I brought her with me my family doctor put her on Aricept.
but I soon learned that I could not take care of her and work so she and I both agreed on a place for her to live. I let her make the choice. She is doing well. I keep looking out for her. Getting the magazines she wants, helping her with the channels on the tv and little things that seem so simple that she can't grasp anymore. And when she argues I let her when It seems so important and she gets confused. My mother is the most intelligent woman and she is copeing with this so wonderfully. As long as she feels that she is still in charge everything is fine. May the lord be with us all.
my mama has also dementia
posted by teresita on 24 Aug 2011 at 6:07 pm
same to all i have read, my mama is 79 years old and she undergo kidney urinalysis and by miracle she is alive after 18 years now and his co patients all die, what we can afford vitamins and food we give her to show our love to her, sometimes she is very rude, (maldita) but she is our mother, we embrace her and be patience with her.
dementia vs ptsd
posted by Deborah on 31 Aug 2011 at 3:58 pm
One of my sisters has been diagnosed with early dementia (frontotemporal). She has been diagnosed with numerous doctors (some at Johns Hopkins Univ. Hosp.). The problem I am facing is that my 2 youngest siblings disagree and took her to another doctor who after hearing her history diagnosed her with PTSD. She has stopped taking her meds prescribed and I believe is failing. My 2 siblings do not believe in medication; they believe in holistic healing. I believe this is dangerous. Could someone please help me find a definitive website that will show the differences between frontotemporal dementia and post-tramatic stress? I live in another state and need some help with this frustrating situation. Thank you for any help anyone can give me.
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