What am I missing here? Do they have a cure or treatment for Alzheimers if treated early?
What am I missing here? Do they have a cure or treatment for Alzheimers if treated early?
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Exactly. What’s the point? So you can be miserable for a longer time?
My wife’s eye doctor has a very sophisticated piece of equipment that makes very detailed digital images of the inner eye. And in one case he sent a patient directly to a hospital because of an impending stroke that he detected in one of those images. True story.
You are right to query. There is nothing in the article to suggest that it would do any good to know ahead of time that you’re going to have Alzheimer’s. That, to me, would be worse than not knowing.
I am glad, by the posts so far, that I am not the only one with the same exact opinion.
Personally, since there is no cure, I would much prefer not knowing while the cognitive process is still going on. Being just south of 73 years old the occasional thought/worry that I might even someday contract Alzheimer’s is quite enough, thank you.
Knowing I have it before the effects start showing would just make me morbid every waking second.
plenty of natural ways to slow it down, enjoy more life. people can change outcomes if they know sooner AND choose to act accordingly.
——do they have a cure?——
No.
The response must be so what? What can be done about it?