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03-18-2018, 10:03 PM | #8 | ||
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I do hope you did seek a medical assessment for your symptoms, because they are not typical of normal aging. I know your post is a few years old, but it would be great if you could let us know how you’re doing now, if you come back on sometime. I have similar symptoms to those you have described, but I only recently considered that there might be something wrong. I think my diagnosis has been delayed because I have ADD/ADHD, which does affect executive function, as well as Fibromyalgia, which can cause brain fog. But, my ADD symptoms were getting much worse, and like you, my working memory barely seems to be working at all. My ADD meds just didn’t seem to be working nearly as well as they used to, even after changing from one medication to another. Because I thought my grandmother had Alzheimer’s, my psychiatrist referred me for a brain MRI and a SPECT scan. He didn’t expect to see much, but thought it would at least give a baseline to compare against, as I age (I’m currently 51). Unfortunately, the SPECT scan, in particular, was abnormal, and the radiologist’s comment was that the scan “shows a pattern of hypoperfusion of a neurodegenerative disorder such as Alzheimer’s disease.” I’m still going through the diagnostic process, but as the hypoperfusion is primarily in the frontotemporal region of the brain, combined with the type of symptoms I have, I think it’s very much more likely that I have Frontotemporal Dementia than AD. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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