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.
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.
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CT scan —a type of x-ray that uses a computer to make pictures of structures inside the head
MRI scan —a test that uses magnetic waves to make pictures of structures inside the head
PET or SPECT scans—tests that use dyes to measure the activity levels of various areas of the brain (used in some cases)
Lumbar puncture —a test of the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) from the lower back; may be done to look for infecti
My wife was recently prescribed Memantine for headaches. She took 5mg nightly for 4 days and during that time she still had a headache, but no side effects. On the 5th day the headaches stopped, but now she's constantly nauseous and woozy. This has been going on for 4 days. Is this just a matter of her body adjusting to the drug?
For some time I have been having numbness, tingling and pain in primarily my right hand, but sometimes my left. I was checked for Carpal Tunnel. I was told I was borderline.
However, I seem to get these strange pains in my torso, legs and feet. I'm starting to think it's a Vascular problem. Yesterday after walking 30 minutes, my right foot had a burning sensation. I examined my foot and noticed the veins looked weaker and there were also very thin red ones I had never seen.
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.
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.
I am curious as to how many years of having hep C is it when the dementia comes into play?? My mother has had it for over 50 years and is showing signs of dementia. She has done many rounds of interfuron and it is still there with her counts in the millions.....
Now she has gotten the family to believe her dilerious rants and ousted me from the entire family....which is not that big to begin with, but now all 9 are in on her strange delirium.
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.. theendocrinal and metabolic abnormailites include non insulin dependent diabetes, type IV hyperlipidemia , truncal obesity and hyperuricemia. Consult your neurologist for further details. Take care.
Do elderly people with Vascular Dementia really "forget" how to balance and walk?
One of the reasons this is possible is because of the new program for obtaining medical degrees. You collect two thousand boxtops from a popular breakfast cerial, eat thirty five hot-dogs consecutavely (this is a times exercise) and must obtain a written recommendation from the Dahli Lahma.
Positive for optic neuritis, neuro treating for vascular dementia but continuing workup my question. First mri with abnormal white matter and dx of ms by radioligist has never worsened same mri report in january 2018. never had a normal mri the 2005 was first one... i was born early mom complete placental abruption. I had trouble memorizing and learning math. But never diagnosed supposedly normal. HS / nursing school grad with 4.
towards the end of rehab and the speech pathologist gave us a handout on dementia, talked about what he could swallow, and then the PT showed us an exercise he was working on, and that was it.
Discharge was rough - we took him to the adult family home, the social worker hadn't gotten his medication updated and taken care of so he had no meds until very late that night, didn't include his PULST form, and couldn't be gotten ahold of.
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.
Hello my peeps. Sorry I've been MIA - but those of you who know me, know the multiple medical reasons why.
Anywho, I went to my neuro again today (now I see her every 2-3 months instead of every month). I had told her that my primary sent me for another neuropsych eval because of the issues I told her I was having. I had the testing at the University about 3 wks ago & won't get the final results until the 18th.
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.
i had a stroke 2months ago and have very limited movement on my left side. i was lucky to survive they said. i am 30 years old. at first i didnt know what was happening. since the stroke i cry all the time and suffer with anxiety i forget things all the time and one day i csn do stuff the next i cant.eg when i first came home from hospital i could just about mske a drinj now i forget how to. i think its part of the brain trying to recover.
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