I have had two grandparents die after having Alzheimer's for long periods of time. It's odd because it's like watching someone die in slow motion and when the body does eventually die people often look on it as a relief because the "person" you knew inside had actually faded away a long time ago. It's like a song fading to static versus just stopping.
Slipping Away: Jo Aubin Has Alzheimer's. He's 38
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Re: Slipping Away: Jo Aubin Has Alzheimer's. He's 38
#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
Shouldn't really assume that. I mean, yes, it's unlikely, but given that most of the research is around prevention of damage, surely it's better to get tested early if you even remotely suspect there is a chance of it being Alzheimer's.
> even remotely suspect there is a chance Generally speaking, this is not a cost-effective approach to medicine.
Not even just the cost factor. You can do damage to your health from getting treatments for false positives.
Re: Slipping Away: Jo Aubin Has Alzheimer's. He's 38
#23I'm only in my 20's- but reading through this 'early indicator' list [1] has me somewhat concerned about myself. But I don't know how much of that is it just being late and me being convinced I have every neurological disorder I happen to read about. [1] http://www.alz.org/alzheimers_disease_10_signs_of_alzheimers...
The peanut butter test is interesting. For sufferers of early onset Alzheimer's, the range at which you can detect a smell is different between your left and right nostrils. They used Peanut Butter in this test done by the University of Florida. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peanut_butter_test
Now you have me worried.
Re: Slipping Away: Jo Aubin Has Alzheimer's. He's 38
#24> He visited his family doctor, looking for answers. He had been diagnosed with depression and anxiety in university, and now the doctor focused on that and prescribed anti-depressants.
This is the fall-back position for lazy doctors. I know because I've been through it with my wife and a different condition.
We knew at the time that the diagnosis of depression was bullshit, and immediately sought second (and third) opinions to get to the bottom of what was going on.
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#25My father is a neurologist and he always tells me that until the 90s or so, Alzheimer was mush rarer than other diseases (although the life expectancy was not that much shorter than today). There must be some environmental cause to it and it should be pretty simple to get. We only need some control population with similar life-span, one has no exposition to tv, one hasn't something else.. etc
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#26My grandmom probably had Alzheimer's because she would always forget what my name was (she'd think she is talking to my little brother) or she would ask the same questions every 5/10 minutes. I can see slight similarities with my dad now. He might repeat the same question within 5 minutes-- this happens when he's really tired. I remember there was a discussion here about preventative drugs? Anyone one had experience…
My wife's grandmother has a traffic accident induced Alzheimer, she showed signs, after taking medication, she was slowly going back to normal, after a couple of months the deterioration of memory started again and now the normal dosages do not help anymore.
Re: Slipping Away: Jo Aubin Has Alzheimer's. He's 38
#27My father is a neurologist and he always tells me that until the 90s or so, Alzheimer was mush rarer than other diseases (although the life expectancy was not that much shorter than today). There must be some environmental cause to it and it should be pretty simple to get. We only need some control population with similar life-span, one has no exposition to tv, one hasn't something else.. etc
Let's see:
Psychotropics and bacteriocidal antibiotics are both linked with diseases like alzheimers because they are cytotoxic and can lead to oxidative stress and mitochondrial damage. They are also being more and more commonly prescribed.
Air's less and less clean.
God knows how many chemicals are being added to foods, water, construction, and the environment that are unregulated or poorly studied. I remember seeing something recently like thousands of chemicals are being used without FDA approval.
There's also the grandfather theory or whatever. The few generations before us are some of the first in the industrial revolution, and all of the new exposures in that are causing DNA changes that are propagating to offspring, and newer generations are feeling the negative after effects of it.
Yup, we're fucked.
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#28I wonder if in a while the world will move to something like cryonics for people about to die a slow and unpleasant death. I'm not sure it could be any worse than the current situation.
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#29I'm only in my 20's- but reading through this 'early indicator' list [1] has me somewhat concerned about myself. But I don't know how much of that is it just being late and me being convinced I have every neurological disorder I happen to read about. [1] http://www.alz.org/alzheimers_disease_10_signs_of_alzheimers...
The peanut butter test is interesting. For sufferers of early onset Alzheimer's, the range at which you can detect a smell is different between your left and right nostrils. They used Peanut Butter in this test done by the University of Florida. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peanut_butter_test
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Re: Slipping Away: Jo Aubin Has Alzheimer's. He's 38
#30My father is a neurologist and he always tells me that until the 90s or so, Alzheimer was mush rarer than other diseases (although the life expectancy was not that much shorter than today). There must be some environmental cause to it and it should be pretty simple to get. We only need some control population with similar life-span, one has no exposition to tv, one hasn't something else.. etc
There could also be a diagnostic factor. It's only since the 90's or so, when effective treatments for Alzheimer's started to show up, that doctors started to really differentiate between Alzheimer's and 'normal' senility and age-related dementia.