[sm25b]

Hi all!
I've come here to do some research of my own because I have come to a point in my life where I truly feel let down by so many doctors and specialists. About a year ago my mom suddenly, one day, said that her gynocologist was my brothers father (total different nationality, so its not even possible), that she felt the police had cameras set up to watch her, that there were helicopters flying over the house to get video of her... and she also started having conversations with the air and delusions that someone died (a different person every single day). She tried to jump out of the car when my dad was driving because she was adament that my son had died and she needed to get to his funeral. She has shown up at my house before with different items because I had asked for them (I hadn't).

I will say that she has never forgotten anybody's names, never forgets the date or her address... she does seem to have problems with short-term memory right now, but with the amount of meds she's on I don't know if this is a symptom of the meds or of her condition.

She had just turned 64 and is in otherwise good health. Before this all happened I started to have trouble communicating with her... although I attributed this to her having an auditory processing problem and severe dislexia. For a couple years she would start her sentences in the middle and I'd have no idea what she was talking about. For example, she'd say, "and then he called me back!". I'd ask who called her back and she'd get flustered.

We've been to 5 different psychiatrists who all say it's alzheimers and there's nothing they can do. She spent 10 days in a psych ward at the hospital where they said it was bipolar with mood disorder. Her primary care says that its mini-strokes and a neurologist says that she has some frontal vascular hardening... although it is normal for someone her age and didn't account for her strange behavior.

She's had bruising all over from holding and squeezing her arms and legs, she's lost 40 lbs (probably weighs about 115lbs.) because she believed my father was poisoning her, she actually handed me a baggy of poop once when my dad left the room so I could go get it "tested".

As of right now she is heavily medicated
- depakote
- risperdal
- lexapro
- arisept
?might be others

and she just sits there. She doesn't say a word. If you ask her a question she will answer with yes or no, but won't elaborate. At a football game someone asked her if she wanted a center or end piece of pizza and she litterely stuttered so bad about what she wanted that I was embarrassed for her (but didn't want to insult her by answering for her).

I haven't given up... I'm just going to take a different approach by doing my own research. I truly believe that it's something neurological... however I'm not sure what.

She has had MRI's, catscans, and EEG's... all inconclusive.

WHEW.... so that's why I'm here in a nutshell. There's tons and tons of more things that I could write about different things my mother has done, but I think that I've pretty much covered it.

If anyone has ever gone through anything similiar... has any suggestions... thinks they know what is wrong.... please im me.

Thanks