This is scary. I’ve lost my sense of smell over the last 6 months. The only thing I can smell is a constant odor of cigarette smoke, but no one around me smokes. I guess it’s time to make a doctor’s appointment.
Alzheimer’s runs in my family and it’s been one of my biggest fears since watching my grandmother deteriorate. She was a sweet, friendly woman until she developed Alzheimer’s and then she became mean. She would kick us as we walked by and mistreat her dog. It was sad to watch.
It’s weird how that mean streak shows up in people with dementia/Alzheimers.
My m-i-l was the same way. She would say things to others and about others that would have left her aghast years ago if someone else had said them. We couldn’t have imagined her changing like that.
I had it roughest. I was not the favorite daughter-in-law and yet due to circumstances I was the one who helped her the most in her declining years.
Your symptoms could be caused by a variety of different things but this is definitely something to get checked out soon.