Movement Disorders Including essential tremor, dystonia and Restless Leg Syndrome (RLS).


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Old 12-19-2011, 03:41 AM #1
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Default Can a movement disorder involve psychosis and dementia in a young adult?

If anyone can help I greatly appreciate it. My daughter a previous healthy strong vibrant girl started complaining of sudden symptoms she is know 26 and they started when she was 24.
For the past 2 years sudden symptoms she begun and continued to progress and decline with no firm diagnosis. It began with severe fatigue and slight depression suddenly for no reason or change in lifestyle pace. She the complained she started to feel stiffened and slowed movements with troubleintiating movements. Thenstiffness hit her neck and was worse than any stiff neck she ever had during a flu. This lasted for 1 year and half. The drs did blood work extensively including Lyme disease and autoimmune diseases like lupus or MS and MRI of brain neck and spine and ct scans with contrast but all were normal.
Then her vision started to get blurry which she wasn't alarmed because She has had migraine history with vision auras that are genetic from her fathers side but never caused her more then pain during episodesand vision loss. But these vision changes were more doubling with heavy weakened eyelids that were difficult to keep open and focusing problems, this forced her to take a leave from her career. Then the last stage currently was neurological symptoms thatnhave changed her persinality and seems mild dementia is beginning. Having trouble with memory, slowly getting confused in familiar places and struggling to recognize people and objects she is complaining severly about. The drs have reassess and redid the MRI if brain neck and spine and EEG with more blood work and a nueropsch test for memory with reasoning questions, She scored average which to me wasn't impressive for a honor graduate in from ivey league college. She has severe bouts with dizziness making walking very hard because she is very off balance and can't stand straight for long. She has just had a VNG test which the dr said has confirmed dizziness from her brain not her ears or eyes.
I really don't know where to go from here she is now having psychosis it seems. Shes having hallucinations and keeps sayins she doesn't feel real, and having sever nightmares. Her speech is becoming off and personality very isolated. This is a completely different girl and I'm very worried, some type of medical illness the drs have diagnosed yet is causing sever psychosis. We have a movement disorder dr we are going to next and dont know where to go from there. Her career thatnshe worked so hard for took has a huge loss. She has never traveled out of country and need advice on how to get answers from this point. *I'm so confused and discouraged. It seems to have begun with physical symptoms and has developed into deteriorating neurological symptoms. Could a movement disorder cause dementia so young? Thanks
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