Concerned concussions dementia risk
 

I'm getting concerned about the research connecting TBI's to Alzheimer's disease. I'm a 50 year old female who has sustained 2 mild TBI's (no post concussion syndrome) within the last 4 years, the most recent in September, 2013. I lost consciousness for few seconds each time. I fell in the bathroom from, what I now know was contraindicated meds for migraine. I'm very angry with my physicians for not taking my concussions seriously. I went to ER for both concussions, MRI's were normal, yet I know now that MRI's are not conclusive. I had no f/u with a neurologist. I've been reading about recent research connecting just a momentary loss of consciousness from 1 concussion to increased risk of Alzheimers.

Any thoughts?

I appreciate any words of wisdom. I'm quite distressed.

Here is the link to our TBI/PCS forum, they may have thoughts on this for you-
http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/forum92.html

http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-c...e/faq-20057837

This link should make you feel better. The risk of developing alzheimers from two tbi's where you were knocked out for a few seconds is very negligible.

If it makes you feel better, curcumin has been implicated in fighting plaques that cause alzheimers.

Welcome Samfactor. :Wave-Hello:

IMO, there's no point worrying about it. You can't undo those TBI's and being stressed about it can only exacerbate your risk. Relax. What you can do is live healthy (good nutrition, aerobic sports), work on prevention (Google Alzheimer's prevention), and possibly take some brain-friendly supplements, which often happen to be both good for recovering from a concussion and for preventing Alzheimer's at the same time.
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Namely, you could try:

• fish oil
  curcumin (turmeric, longvida)
  choline derivates and precursors (lecithin, alpha GPC)

)
I really don't see any downside to trying the list of thing you'll find you could do when you Google "Alzheimer's Prevention." Seems to me like those things will increase anyone's quality of life regardless of if they were at the risk of developing Alzheimer disease in the first place. :)