Psychotic symptoms vascular dementia
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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.
Vascular dementia, which occurs after a stroke, is the second most common dementia type. But there are many other conditions that can cause symptoms of dementia, including some that are reversible, such as thyroid problems and vitamin deficiencies.
Dementia is often incorrectly referred to as "senility" or "senile dementia," which reflects the formerly widespread but incorrect belief that serious mental decline is a normal part of aging.
No one and that includes a doctor can give a reliable estimate of life expectency!!
Sorry to hear of your mother's condition. Vascular dementia is almost the same Alzheimer's...the etioloy is different but the symptoms are almost identical, and that may help explain your mother's refusal to take any medication...its a cognitive disorder as well. It is estimated about 5 years (mean estimate) of life expectency after the onset of Alzheimer, a little longer with medication (aricept).
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.
These drugs were never meant to be used long-term, yet as many as 60 percent of nursing home residents with dementia are placed on anti-psychotic regimens that last as long as two years.
William Thies of the Alzheimer's Association said that "at some points, some people will be better off with no medication." I doubt that's something that the Big Pharma companies that paid for this study will want to hear.
DR.W.
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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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.
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..
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.
If any aspect of her condition was dementia Namenda could be used. If it were psychotic, which it sounds like it, generally an antipsychotic would help but there the concern as regarding age. Zofran is helpful on psychosis from Parkinson's and has been of some use for schizophrenia and although both usages are experimental the medication is approved (I take it for what is being studied as the criteria tardive psychosis) and could potentially be of help.
I am currently recovering from a severe depression with suicide ideation in which i apparently had psychotic symptoms. Has anyone else had psychosis without knowing what it was until speaking to your therapist about what was going on? and does anyone have any advice as to what to look for in oneself when psychosis starts?
My normally active 65 year old mother had what they thought was a TIA a week ago, effected vision in one eye( self resolved), some mild slurring and missing a word. MRI and CT scan brain showed no damage, blood workups, sugar etc all normal. However she seems to be getting confusion or 'mild delerium' symptoms each day surprisingly the same time between 9am and 12pm for the last week since.
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.
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!
My husband got the MRI report today: mild small vessel ischemic change with no evidence of acute infarct. Volume loss in the right temporal lobe likely representing encephalomalcia. There is mild diffuse volume loss with associated mild ventricular prominence. There is more focal prominent volume loss in the right temporal lobe with prominence of the extra-axial space and ex bacuo dilatation of the right temporal horn.
Your mother's dementia symptoms may or may not be connected to her hepC. If they are then the others here have already covered it. 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.
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.
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.
We are looking for and update as my Mother in law has been living with us and was just confirmed she has dementia!
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