Posted on 07/15/2023 7:19:15 PM PDT by nickcarraway
What are the first signs of young-onset Alzheimer’s disease? It isn't memory loss and mistaking the symptoms can put people off seeking medical help, says a University of Reading neuroscientist.
Alzheimer’s disease is often thought of as a condition that only affects the elderly. But around 3.9 million people worldwide aged 30 to 64 live with young-onset Alzheimer’s disease - a form of dementia in which symptoms appear before the age of 65.
English journalist and broadcaster Fiona Phillips, 62, recently revealed that she’d been diagnosed with it. In the interview, Phillips shared that the main symptoms she had experienced before her diagnosis were brain fog and anxiety - highlighting just how different young-onset can be from late-onset Alzheimer’s disease.
First, symptoms begin much earlier - as young as 30 in some rare cases, though it’s typically diagnosed between the ages of 50 and 64.
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A loss in the sense of smell is also a sign of possible onset of dementia.
Doctors should concentrate more on how to help people and less on how to diagnose them.
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Alzheimer’s wins every time.
Same for prion based diseases.
Treatment and cures both rely on understanding the underlying mechanisms.
It’s amazingly complex, that’s why it’s practicing medicine.
It is hard to treat someone if you don’t know what you are treating. A classic was ulcer disease. For years it was thought to be the result of too much acid. Even the most compassionate antacids did little to help. Turns out it is an infection, treatable with antibiotics.
Actress RITA HAYWORTH had it..People thought she was a drunk....
In my opinion your example is poorly chosen. People with ulcers already knew they had ulcers before Barry J. Marshall and J. Robin Warren earned the Nobel Prize in Medicine for discovering the infectious cause, and thereby pinpointing an effective treatment.
Who would want to be told at age 30 “You have early Alzheimers, but we don’t have a good treatment yet.”? I think just about nobody.
In my opinion Dr Frederick Klenner had the correct approach: give the patient lots of vitamin C while you ponder the diagnosis.
See movie “ Still Alice “…..very good .
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Well she was a drunk, for decades, and her physician said it triggered her early onset. She used drink as a treatment for an extreme mood disorder. Said husband Orson Welles: "She'd fly into these rages, never at me, never once, always at (Columbia head) Harry Cohn or her father or her mother or her brother. She would break all the furniture and she'd get in a car and I'd have to get in the car and try to control her. She'd drive up in the hills suicidally. Terrible, terrible nights. And I just saw this lovely girl destroying herself."
brain fog? I would bet there is an association between sleep apnea and developing alzheimers. Treatment = cpap? I am not a medical doctor and this does not constitute medical advice. Just a theory.
The patient comes in with a complaint. At that point, no one knows the answer. The workup leads to a diagnosis, but you don’t know it before you start.
Are you going to lie to the patient if the dx is early Alzheimers? Do you say you don’t know, which is also a lie? Most folks don’t like being lied to. Do you like being lied to?
For people who think they aren’t thinking as sharply as they used to I’d recommend Omega-3 fat, bacopa, huperzine, phosphatidyl serine, PQQ, niacin(amide), curcumin, vitamin B12, Vitamin K2, vitamin D, and vitamin C. I take them all, and still do a demanding technical job in my 70s. The right idea is to live long, enjoy yourself, and achieve good things, not to make your doctor feel important with a useless diagnosis.
Good luck; and my advice is to do your own research, because the average MD is ignorant of the non-pharmaceutical medical literature. They don’t teach it in medical school.
so is COVID ? and brain fog and anxiety could also be COVID related.
how is it distinguished, I wonder?
Orson said, after their divorce she told him their time together was the. most fun she had .....He knew she was terribly hurt if their fights and stuff were good times for her....
her father raped her..They went on the road and she was his “”wife””....
Same here!
My job is demanding; work 60 hours a week and just recently turned 79.
I take NONE of that bank account-draining, snake oil!
Given the timing of this story and the papers I’ve seen, yup.
And likely not just Pfizer.
the real question is...did you stay at a holiday inn before presenting your theory? it would add credence to your findings.
Anyone else now wondering about Florida's stats in particular...
But around 3.9 million people worldwide aged 30 to 64 live with young-onset Alzheimer’s disease - a form of dementia in which symptoms appear before the age of 65.
We know a handful of these unlucky patients, from coast to coast. They were in good shape physically and mentally when they got the diagnosis. Some are now in their late 60’to their 70’s. The better their physical shape at their initial diagnosis and from then on versus poor physical has led to longer and better life styles post diagnosis.
Those with poor physical condition, post diagnosis, often died in a few years with rapid deterioration both mentally and physically..
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