I don’t remember the name of the test she took. They are redoing all her tests again. She will probably have to move to a memory care facility. I see so much of the same behavior as her and joe. My mom has always been mean and nasty, but now she’s meaner and nastier, and she’s NEVER wrong. She hasn’t drove for 6 years.
My husband was never given a diagnosis of dementia but all the signs were there. I did take him to a neurologist for evaluation who had a list of tests for him to take and I made sure he did every single one - EEG in the office, sleep study, MRI, and I’ve forgotten the others. When I took him back for test results what I got was a RX for medication without one word on what he concluded from the tests.
The pharmacist asked me if I knew what the RX was for and I told her no - the doctor didn’t give me any information. She said, “This is for schizophrenia.” I said, “You’re joking. Don’t fill it.”
I called the doctor and asked him why he’d given my husband a RX for schizophrenia when he doesn’t have schizophrenia - he said, “He does. You just don’t know it. Does he have seizures and I said, “NO.” He said, “well, he does.” I asked about dementia and he said, “maybe a LITTLE”. I wanted to say - “is that something like being a LITTLE pregnant?”
He said he wanted me to schedule 10 biofeedback sessions for my husband and I told him that wasn’t going to happen!!!!! In no time at all, I got a call from his office and they said they were supposed to schedule biofeedback sessions for my husband and I told them I’d already told the doctor that wasn’t going to happen...
I told him I had old, old friends who were both schizophrenics and my husband’s behavior was nothing like their behavior...Sadly, they’re both gone now as is my husband..
Sending you some information on that neurologist through FReepmail...probably not something that should go on the thread....
I have heard that people can become very irritated or very calm. It appears that Joe’s behavior probably isn’t changed - he’s always been nasty...He shows his temper every day.
My mother had dementia and was taken care of by my oldest sister. I lived 3000 miles away so I didn’t see her in that condition but my sister said she was as sweet as ever....She lived 5 years after moving in with my sister.
I’m sorry about your mother - not an easy thing to go through for anyone. My husband had thousands of opinions about everything under the sun and he did become agitated and easily irritated...I was aware of the signs...He was taken from our home in the middle of the night by the paramedics in 2021 as he was combative and I couldn’t control him. He never came home. Went to the hospital where I could visit with him and he was fine - they discharged him to a nursing home and he never knew I was there...they kept him so drugged in spite of my wishes and he never came home - he was gone in 9 days after the hospital discharge. The hospital never saw the need to keep him drugged.....Not an experience easily forgotten....
Hang in there with your mom - she may start behaving different, you never know.