Hello.
Dementia is not a demyelinating disorder. Dementia is a disorder which can have up to 50 different causes. The commonest ones are the vascular dementia and Alzheimer's type dementia. High blood pressure is a contributing factor for vascular dementia.
Exelon patch is on back order from the manufacturer until October 24. What alternatives are there?
My mother is 80 years old.
Since 2018, she has been seeing her deceased husband (my father), her deceased parents, and her deceased sister in her own home. In other words, she has been having hallucinations.
A CT scan of the head, without contrast, was performed on my mother 3 weeks ago. According to the result of this CT scan, "severe cerebral white matter microvascular ischemic changes" can be seen.
s frustrating! Dementia can happen due to a variety of things, not just alzheimers though. Vascular and heart issues are well known culprits. Brain injury. COPD or anything in which the brain is not as oxygenated. Here's a whole long list of what can cause dementia. https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/dementia/symptoms-causes/syc-20352013 I have read thought that doctors ARE hesitant to diagnose alzheimers disease until they have observed the dementia over a period of time.
My mom suffers from this lewy body dementia, and i wish there was something more effective out there other than
aricept or exelon...
If anyone knows anything about REMBA, please drop me a line....
I thank you and
good luck to you ,or your loved one!
Micro vascular brain disease is a collective term for vascular arteriolar pathology, metabolic endocrinal abnormalities and hemorrhagic abnormalities. Clinically one has cerebral ischemic events that have a tendency to recur and progress to multi infarct dementia. These ischemic events are associated with depression, parinsonian manifestations and essential hypertension..
t calming her down any, and she did not refil the prescription. 2 months later she had another bad dream and the doctor was notified. He then prescribed exelon.
My question: If she does not have Alzheimer's disease, why would he prescribe either of these medicines for her? If this is dimentia, aren't there other drugs out there for that or even drugs that have a claming effect? From what I have read about excelon, I am not sure if it is compatible with her heart medication.
White matter lesions in these parts of the brain can occur in ischemic vascular disease or epilepsy. Other causes include Alzheimer’s disease, dementia, old age, high BP, diabetes, chronic headaches, migraines, smoking and alcoholism.
In MS the lesions are typically located in the periventricular region and corpus callosum of the brain.
Hope this answers your question!
At Providence, we *still* learned nothing of his prognosis, what the future could hold, recovery options afterwards. The social worker said he had vascular dementia (casually in conversation) but we had never been told that, and then the social worker said we should find an adult family home for after rehab. Tracking the doctor down wasn't much help. Dr said that his file said he had vascular dementia, but who gave him that diagnosis?!
As I said on the other forum, nobody ever claimed gingko does anything about dementia other than unscrupulous multi-level traded herb companies. It does help oxygenate the brain and protects the integrity of blood vessels, but only in combination with other herbs. Herbalists don't use one herb for anything -- they always use them in combination.
Do elderly people with Vascular Dementia really "forget" how to balance and walk?
Your MRI shows age related atrophy changes that could be limited to temporal and parietal lobes depending on whether you have suggestion of alzheimer’s disease, frontal and temporal lobes in frontotemporal lobar degeneration, and global atrophy if there is vascular dementia. These need to be clinically correlated if you have any senile cognitive changes.
Thanks for using the forum. I am happy to address your questions, and my answer will be based on the information you provided here. Please make sure you recognize that this forum is for educational purposes only, and it does not substitute for a formal office visit with your doctor.
Without the ability to examine you and obtain a history, I can not provide with an explanation for your particular MRI findings, however I will try to provide you with some information.
If they are not then she could have Alzheimers or vascular dementia, 2 conditions which involve organic progressive deterioration of the brain. You might find further info by going to the boards for dementia. Whatever the case she's going to need medical tests to find out what is wrong.
My mother has dementia. All I can say to you is that I hope your mother's case is connected to her hepC because something can be done about that.
Some months ago she became confused and nauseous and vascular shunts were put in to drain the fluid. They went back in 3-4 times to adjust the shunts as my aunt did not respond and became more confused. After more than a month of recovery in the hospital she was moved closer to her home- and then finally to a skilled nursing facility. My cousin, her only child, has decided that now she just had dementia and there is nothing more to do. My cousin insists that Drs.
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