Hello, my wife is now 43 and has been suffering from neurological issues since bells palsy in 2007 when she was 34, with symptoms such as slow thinking, memory loss, forgetfulness, depression, Leg or arm weakness, slurred speech, Balance problems, Language problems, such as difficulty finding the right words for things, Laughing or crying inappropriately, Difficulty doing things that used to come easily. I have had to fight for every single doctor and specialist to look at her explaining het symptoms every single time, and receiving the same answer test are inconclusive, its all in your head and so on, just take these pills and go away basically.
Recently though a consultant who is interested in these type of undiagnosed cases (as that is what it has been) this is not his normal job, decided to do further test starting with blood work which came back with a past Herpes Simplex infection at some point (around the bells palsy), this then led to a MRI and then a Spec Image Scan which has identified Reduced Perfusion (blood flow) to 4 parts of the brain, Left Frontal Pariental Lobe, Right Temporal Lobe, and both Posterior Parietal Lobes.
As you can image this has been a massive shock and the consultant could give us any information as I said early this was just an interest he has, we now have to wait for a Neurological Consultant to confirm these finds......
My concern is are they going push this under the rug as they have missed not tested for Vascular Dementia even though all the symptoms point to this?
Sorry for such a long post but I felt I need to get things off my chest as it been 8 years of banging my head against a brick wall to get someone to listen to my wife's issue without getting the not interested look as its not jumping out at them like a stroke or head injury
Recently though a consultant who is interested in these type of undiagnosed cases (as that is what it has been) this is not his normal job, decided to do further test starting with blood work which came back with a past Herpes Simplex infection at some point (around the bells palsy), this then led to a MRI and then a Spec Image Scan which has identified Reduced Perfusion (blood flow) to 4 parts of the brain, Left Frontal Pariental Lobe, Right Temporal Lobe, and both Posterior Parietal Lobes.
As you can image this has been a massive shock and the consultant could give us any information as I said early this was just an interest he has, we now have to wait for a Neurological Consultant to confirm these finds......
My concern is are they going push this under the rug as they have missed not tested for Vascular Dementia even though all the symptoms point to this?
Sorry for such a long post but I felt I need to get things off my chest as it been 8 years of banging my head against a brick wall to get someone to listen to my wife's issue without getting the not interested look as its not jumping out at them like a stroke or head injury
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