Hello
I found this forum really useful in 2008 when my mam was really poorly with dementia and after she died. So much support from some lovely people.
I am just looking for help in a problem i am suffering with. In July i suffered a TIA (mini stroke) nothing too bad i lost the ability to talk for a while. I am now on aspirin and Simvastatin. since then i have been having trouble sleeping the problem being i dream all night sometimes waking up crying when i dream about my mam or wake up with my heart pounding. Needless to say i am constantly exhausted after not getting proper sleep. I was at the doctors yesterday about it and he said he didn't think it was my medication but more to do with anxiety. I told him between my tears that because there have been 3 generations on my mam's side of the family who have had dementia and my mam having vascular dementia caused by mini strokes since having mine i have been worrying. It was obviously a concern to me before but i could brush it aside but since this has happened to me it's harder to do. I have to go back in 3 weeks after not taking my simvastatin for 2 weeks and if i still feel the same he says i will have to go for counselling to find a way of dealing with it. He was very understanding about it all.
has anyone else had any problems with anxiety caused by worrying about getting dementia and how did you deal with it.
By the way i am 51 years old.
barbara h
I found this forum really useful in 2008 when my mam was really poorly with dementia and after she died. So much support from some lovely people.
I am just looking for help in a problem i am suffering with. In July i suffered a TIA (mini stroke) nothing too bad i lost the ability to talk for a while. I am now on aspirin and Simvastatin. since then i have been having trouble sleeping the problem being i dream all night sometimes waking up crying when i dream about my mam or wake up with my heart pounding. Needless to say i am constantly exhausted after not getting proper sleep. I was at the doctors yesterday about it and he said he didn't think it was my medication but more to do with anxiety. I told him between my tears that because there have been 3 generations on my mam's side of the family who have had dementia and my mam having vascular dementia caused by mini strokes since having mine i have been worrying. It was obviously a concern to me before but i could brush it aside but since this has happened to me it's harder to do. I have to go back in 3 weeks after not taking my simvastatin for 2 weeks and if i still feel the same he says i will have to go for counselling to find a way of dealing with it. He was very understanding about it all.
has anyone else had any problems with anxiety caused by worrying about getting dementia and how did you deal with it.
By the way i am 51 years old.
barbara h