She came home to visit for the 1st time in over a year and all of the sudden is having word find problems and memory problems.
Our mother developed Alzhiemers when she was 58 and died when she was 66. Now my oldest sister is starting to behave peculiar. She has trouble finding words, repeates herself and I find myself trying to fill in the gaps and make it easier for her to talk with me. I feel like a babbling idiot who is covering both sides of the conversation. Help me. I have been crying for 2 days. I am very upset and dont know what to do. I dont want to scare her because we all went thru a hard time when our mother became incapacitated at such a young age.
Should I call her husband and ask him if he knows what is going on. Anyone here with neurology experience have suggestions.
My 2nd oldest sister thinks her husband is poisoning her.
2006-10-19 16:25:51 · 11 answers · asked by happydawg 6 in Health ➔ Mental Health
Wow, that is young for Alzheimers. I worked on an Alzheimers unit for 19 years, I've seen it all. And yes , in a very limited percentage I have seen young Alzheimers. It is an awful life death sentence, worse though for the family members of the diseased. Trust me. It is very very difficult to watch them deteriorate slowly. Very slowly, and before long they don't even know you which is the hardest thing I have seen families accept.
Read up on this disease, so you can have a better aspect on it to pass along to your other family members. Print it out, make them understand the process and what to expect. It is long and hard, especially when they are that young.
Good luck to you all
2006-10-19 23:01:23 · answer #1 · answered by Kay M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-02 11:50:35 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There may be other causes for her strange behaviour. My mother started to go funny ,she would blurt out strange things think we were trying to poison her etc. She ended up having a major stroke and is now in a nursing home aged 64 now this happened 5 yrs ago. Three months before her stroke they diagnosed her with diabetes and she may have been experiencing mini strokes and low blood sugar episodes which were probably contributing to her strange behaviour.
Ask her husband to take her to the doctor if he wont you may have to,before it gets worse. Good luck.
2006-10-19 16:39:52 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, ask her husband. Perhaps you need to go with her to see her family doctor as a way of getting her started with looking for answers to your question. She needs to be assessed by a psychiatrist and a neurologist for proper diagnosis.
There are many possible reasons for your sister/s symptoms which only her doctors will be able to assess.
We only found out that my mother had AD after her husband, our stepfather, died. He had just been putting up with it and maybe covering for her. It was obvious to us after he died, and her problems functioning surfaced.
We got her good care and medication which has helped her to function fairly well, considering, for much longer than some people do.
So I recommend early intervention to help her get the proper treatment. Be aware, though, that there is no cure for AD.
2006-10-19 16:36:43 · answer #4 · answered by KIT J 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Check out www.hufa.org - the symptoms list. It may be Alzheimer's but it also may be low blood sugar. If you can talk to your sister's doctor, one test that may help would be the fasting blood insulin test. If this is positive (10 or more), then it could explain a lot. If it is low blood sugar, then a change in diet may help.
2006-10-19 16:31:28 · answer #5 · answered by Pegasus90 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Get her to a doctor. Behavior changes are not normal. Don't mean to alarm you but it could be any number of neurological things: Alzheimer's, stroke, tumor, or maybe even a thyroid or hormonal imbalance. She needs evaluated soon. Good luck!
2006-10-19 17:17:03 · answer #6 · answered by little_deb_e 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you get her to a Doctor early enough (ie RIGHT NOW), they have medications that can slow the development of Alzheimers'.
But, if you delay...the damage cannot be undone.
2006-10-19 16:29:14 · answer #7 · answered by Robert 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Poisoning her? what? Well...is there any way you can take her to a dr to see if she really has alzheimers? do a blood test and see if she has been poisoned. Don't talk to her husband yet.
2006-10-19 16:30:02 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Talk to her husband and some of her friends to see if they have noticed it, then she needs to talk to her doctor as there are medications that can help.
2006-10-19 16:29:44 · answer #9 · answered by judy_derr38565 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
let her doc do a "MMSE" mini mental status exam,which is a verbal test to check her memory,and at her age it probably won't be alzheimer's it would be dementia. a stage before alzheimer's
2006-10-19 16:33:10 · answer #10 · answered by DONNA T 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋