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My Really Bad Mood Swings Turned Out to Be Early-0nset Dementia
New York Post ^ | Jan. 28, 2024 | Social Links forTracy Swartz

Posted on 01/28/2024 1:45:15 PM PST by nickcarraway

An Idaho woman experiencing severe mood swings thought she had a brain tumor — it turns out she has early-onset dementia.

“I had so much trouble regulating my emotions. I’d become so furious over things I usually wouldn’t be angry about, like people correcting me if I said something wrong,” explained Jana Nelson, 53, to SWNS.

“My doctor doesn’t see me living into my 60s and eventually I’m going to need round-the-clock care at home,” she added. Nelson noticed symptoms in 2017 after friends and family pointed out her personality had changed. She was repeating the same questions and sentences — she thought she had just become forgetful.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: dementia
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To: MikelTackNailer

I LOL’ed.


21 posted on 01/28/2024 2:28:24 PM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: nickcarraway

you can ALWAYS tell who the really crazy people are when the police show up. people who act crazy always moderate when the law is present. the truly crazy people can’t understand the dangerous ground they’re walking on. remember friends...crazy people don’t know they are.


22 posted on 01/28/2024 2:28:46 PM PST by Qwapisking ("IF the Second goes first the Fes second" L.Star )
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To: AppyPappy

I am dealing with a parent that has far more senile agitation than I realized.

What seem to be the symptoms, are there. I just notice that my parent can see none of it.

I don’t think everyone has this.


23 posted on 01/28/2024 2:33:27 PM PST by Empire_of_Liberty
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To: nickcarraway

Far left Hillary Clintoon supporters have all those same symptoms.


24 posted on 01/28/2024 2:42:55 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer ( Joe Pedo's America! The Motel 6 to the world. Joe's Border Patrol will keep the light on for you.)
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To: linMcHlp
Lack of sleep, frustration-stress, and some TIA, will do that.

Also-

She was diagnosed with a major neurocognitive disorder due to fetal alcohol syndrome — her brain had been deprived of oxygen during her traumatic birth — hydrocephalus (a buildup of fluid within the brain), and repeated concussions.

25 posted on 01/28/2024 3:01:11 PM PST by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐To the Left, The Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
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To: nickcarraway

Poorly written. Some points being injected without background, or explanation & out of timeline sequence.

For example, it mentions repeated concussions with no explanation. Brain surgery? Nothing is properly tied together.

Where do these dolts learn to write?


26 posted on 01/28/2024 3:01:14 PM PST by ChildOfThe60s ("If you can remember the 60s....you weren't really there")
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To: nickcarraway

Noticeable symptoms at 46? I would have assumed hormonal changes at that age.


27 posted on 01/28/2024 3:03:23 PM PST by PAR35
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To: Empire_of_Liberty

My experience has been that people who live alone seem to have more problems. There are new drugs but if you live alone, you may not know to get them.


28 posted on 01/28/2024 3:06:40 PM PST by AppyPappy (Biden told Al Roker "America is back". Unfortunately, he meant back to the 1970's)
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To: nickcarraway

When did she have the COVID jab, and how many boosters? Within 10 days after her third jab, my wife begin showing Parkinson’s type symptoms, dementia, loss of balance and memory loss. Our lives are now as much burden as blessing.


29 posted on 01/28/2024 3:19:52 PM PST by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Finish the damned WALL! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH!)
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To: SauronOfMordor

I was my mom’s caregiver until she passed away at the age of 101 last August. She had vascular dementia, and though she retained most of her (borderline) personality, the last few years were pretty traumatic for both of us. Dementia is a dreadful thing.


30 posted on 01/28/2024 3:55:06 PM PST by freepertoo
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To: freepertoo

My father lived to be 94. He was 93 and some odd months when my mother died. Up until my mother died he was sharp as a tack. He participated in complex discussions just like he always did. Then Mom died it was like a switch got flipped. In 8 months or so he went from sharp to a demented state then he died. It was an unbelievable transition.


31 posted on 01/28/2024 4:04:43 PM PST by Reily (!!)
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To: sauropod

Understand. As a friend said ‘life’s a bitch then you die’


32 posted on 01/28/2024 5:50:45 PM PST by sasquatch (Do NOT forget Ashli Babbit! c/o piytar)
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To: nickcarraway

Side effect of Lipitor is dementia


33 posted on 01/28/2024 5:53:11 PM PST by conservativesister (.)
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To: mewzilla

The only good thing about dementia is the character shown by those who deal with it.


34 posted on 01/28/2024 6:01:47 PM PST by sasquatch (Do NOT forget Ashli Babbit! c/o piytar)
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To: Reily

Loss of a life partner is a true bitch. I’m there.


35 posted on 01/28/2024 6:05:39 PM PST by sasquatch (Do NOT forget Ashli Babbit! c/o piytar)
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To: freepertoo

I’m sorry for your loss (and others on this thread). My FIL with dementia passed away November, 2022.

We cared for him nearly 5 years after my MIL passed. He did spend a short time in memory care when his care became overwhelming, but the final year he was here with us, and on hospice.

Yes, it is the most dreadful disease 😞


36 posted on 01/28/2024 6:08:41 PM PST by LilFarmer
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