Depression linked to Alzheimers

[Taimaat]

quote]when i ate weedcake i felt like an alzheimer's patient. if it's that horrible everyone with alzheimer's should be shot immediately. i couldn't hold onto anything in my head but i was still aware somehow of that and it was hell.[/quote]

My grandma went through that  She was depressed about it and said she didn't want to live like that. But most of the time she forgets to be depressed, and that is a good thing. Last time I saw her ( a month or two ago) she was still aware who she was, and my mom said she still is, even though she has difficultly with simple tasks now, like going to the bathroom.  I don't know if she has Alzheimer's although there is a cognitive decline, she defiantly has dementia.

[Callaway]

I think that Alzheimer's Disease tends to be a diagnosis of exclusion.

How old is your grandma?

[Taimaat]

86 now

[ALLDAYGLOWRANDY]

I am sure there are ways to cope with that, I got around my stress and functioned at a high level.  It did however make it harder for me to tell that I could use a horomone.  Maybe that is why I didn't get the help I needed, because of how well I do, it must not be common.  Positive things are more likely to be true, either that or doctors are real assholes.

[Calandale]

how can you die from a disease that makes you forget? does it eat your brain or something? are they close to a cure yet?

It does deteriorate your brain.  Eventually, you forget how to do anything at all, even eat or sit up in bed, so you become bedridden and quite often you die of something like pneumonia or you get bedsores and they become infected.

My grandmother had Alzheimer's disease and she died of pneumonia.

There is no cure.  They have treatments, like Aricept, that help some of the symptoms, especially in the early and middle stages, but these medicines do not stop the decline, which is inevitable. 

86 now

quote]when i ate weedcake i felt like an alzheimer's patient. if it's that horrible everyone with alzheimer's should be shot immediately. i couldn't hold onto anything in my head but i was still aware somehow of that and it was hell.

My grandma went through that  She was depressed about it and said she didn't want to live like that. But most of the time she forgets to be depressed, and that is a good thing. Last time I saw her ( a month or two ago) she was still aware who she was, and my mom said she still is, even though she has difficultly with simple tasks now, like going to the bathroom.  I don't know if she has Alzheimer's although there is a cognitive decline, she defiantly has dementia.

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lolness. :lol:

it's no life living like that.

when i ate weedcake i felt like an alzheimer's patient. if it's that horrible everyone with alzheimer's should be shot immediately. i couldn't hold onto anything in my head but i was still aware somehow of that and it was hell.

[Calandale]