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The doctor tells you that you have the beginning stages of Alzheimer's. What is the prognosis of this disease. |
The doctor tells you that you have the beginning stages of Alzheimer's. What is the prognosis of this disease. they main term of it is dementia and it has many of reasons just one reason will get well but all others has a bad prognosis ,that person will lose his memory specially the close memory..... The prognosis is that your mind will begin a progressive form of presenile dementia that is similar to senile dementia. The first symptoms are impaired memory which is followed by impaired thought and speech and finally complete helplessness You are gonna forget loads, so write it down now! The most striking early symptom is memory loss (amnesia), usually manifests as minor forgetfulness that becomes steadily more pronounced with illness progression, with relative preservation of older memories. As the disorder progresses, cognitive (intellectual) impairment extends to the domains of language (aphasia), coordinated movement (apraxia), recognition (agnosia) and those functions (such as decision-making and planning) closely related to the frontal lobe of the brain, reflecting extension of the underlying pathological process. http://www.alz.co.uk/ www.alzheimers.org.uk www.alz.org http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/alzeihmers... The doctor who diagnosed you should have given you and/or your family some information. First off you need to get onto some Alzheimer's medication. Again, the doctor should help you with this. The medication isn't a CURE but it does slow down the progress. Depending on how old you are and what stage you're at, you could live around 10 years (My dad was 63 and stage 2 and they gave him 9-11 years to live.) I can tell you what my dad's progression has been. He started with depression-like symptoms, disinterest in everything (apathy) and losing his language skills. His language skills have gotten progressively worse. He's lost his math skills entirely. He's having problems reading. When he writes, he leaves out words or uses words wrongly. He gets angry out of proportion to what's going on. He hoards pens, napkins, business cards. He has increasing OCD about food and money and safety. (These are basically things he always did but now he's obsessive about them.) Get books from the library and read up on the disease. Go to the Alzheimer's association website. Get your legal affairs in order. If you have money/assets you want to safeguard for when you get put into a nursing home, move it NOW out of your name. Contact an attorney who specializes in such things. If you want to have some kind of living will, do that now also. You might want to write letters to your friends and loved ones to be opened when you forget them. My dad's already forgetting my name and it's awful--he knows I'm his daughter but not my name. If, like me, you're a writer, you might want to keep some kind of journal as long as you can. It would be valuable insight for researchers to see how the disease progresses from the inside, and also for your family when you're gone. There's so much research and so many new drugs being tested (my dad's part of one test). There's hope that soon one of these will be "the cure" or at least be able to halt the disease at whatever stage a person is in. Good luck. Write to me if you need to talk. http://www.alz.org my Alzheimer's blog: http://alzheimersdad.blogspot.com... |
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