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My mom is in her 60s and her pcp says she is having brain slips and in stages of dementia. I am trying to get her seen by a neurologist and someone recently recommended a geriatric psychiatrist as an alternative for an assessment. It has been 3 months since the diagnosis and she was given an antidepressant. She is now…
My wife has undiagnosed dementia that we have been dealing with for about a year now. Her next appointment is with a neuropsychologist in April, (if I can get her to go). Most of her symptoms now are hallucinations. Her memory is pretty much intact. The hallucinations she is dealing with the most recently are girlfriends…
I am going to post this, because I haven't seen anything quite like our story. My husband is in Stage 5-6 of This Crappy Disease, and he is now telling me that he would like to start a new relationship. The woman he's interested in is a neighbor whose name we don't know. He has been irritated with me because I am the…
My DW and I used to travel extensively all over the US to visit parks and botanical gardens. With her increasing dementia episodes travel in our car is limited to no longer than 15 minutes. My DW tells me very caustically I drive too fast (as we travel at less than the speed limit) that there are cars always right on our…
My mom, 80 (living at home w/my 80yr stepdad) She has been on multiple painkillers, trazadone, Valium for years (I believe clearly over medicated)...who is been diagnosed by some drs with dementia/alzheimers ...and other not...clearly is suffering from dementia and delusions. Been in and out of MC for last 2yrs. But at…
I am the 24/7 caregiver for my wife who suffers from mid to early late term dementia. She has had various hallucinations, usually after wakening in the AM, but recently has had one that repeats itself, and she bring it up all day long. She repeated insists that "a man" comes to her bedroom and disrupts her things by either…
My mom cares for my dad at home. I am only 2 miles away and my son and I are their support system. My dad (89yr) has been dealing with sundowners for several months but it is getting worse. Some nights he sleeps ok and some nights he is up and down throughout the night. We learned my mom (84yr) has been sleeping in a…
My mom has been living in AL almost 2 years after difficult move out to California from Michigan. She did well the first year, but then AL decided to renovate and the disruption triggered fear. She’s 77 years old and was diagnosed with likely dementia, has aphasia and recently has been having auditory hallucinations. She’s…
My 96 year old mom has alzheimers and recently has been having auditory hallucinations - she hears the same part of a song over and over ( i can't id the song). this started about 6 weeks ago for 1 day, then again a month later the 14 days later and then 4 days later. it really upsets her. she thinks its coming from a…
In 2023, I was in a clinical trial similar to those mentioned in the NY Times article posted here by Crushed. (Alzheimer's drug horror story from the NYT, posted 10/23/2023). I was tested and accepted into the study in January. After taking 5 doses, one injection each week for five weeks, I started getting side effects. I…
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