Newly diagnosed early onset alzheimers

Welcome jsmale! I believe you have found the best support there is here. :-)

There are so many small things you will start to notice and wonder, "is that it?" Any one symptom may not be, but the pattern you see is that your dh is changing. What gets annoying after a while is that family or friends will say about whatever symptom you are seeing, "oh, that's not a problem, I do that too," because they are not seeing the pattern that you see day to day.

Hi jsmale, my DW was early-onset as well. I never kept a detailed journal but I did use (and continue to use) a notebook to mark down what I considered significant demarcations. Such as not recognizing certain close people, not wanting to wash hair as often, saying things that showed she knows (somewhere in there) the brain isn't doing what it is supposed to do.

It's a heartbreak, as everyone knows.

we are also in the earlier stages. DH is 61. For the most part daily life is fairly normal. His taste and smell are off. Everything I make tastes like crap. I think I am use to the word finding and reading his version of “sign language”. He had a repeat MRI the beginning of August. I got a copy of the images on CD. We looked at it together. A week later we were watching tv and someone was getting an MRI. He said hey I thought I was supposed to be getting one of those. It had only been 2 weeks since he had it done. That was a sobering moment

My Dw is 55 and was diagnosed one year ago. She spent a week at the Mayo Clinic and after all the tests and having a spinal tap which showed the markers for Alzheimer’s, the diagnosis was made. Maybe you might want to get further tests including a spinal tap if you haven’t done so.

Yes the days of my husband shaving are long gone. I use the rechargable razor on him and keep his beard trimmed. But still he enjoys looking good after I do it for him.