Hello. I might have FTD, and I’d be grateful for all the help and advice I can get.
I am aged 67 and was hospitalised 18 months ago with depression - but since then I began to feel that there was something organic or neurological happening. I have developed a range of behaviours (anhedonia, apathy, loss of empathy and humour) that seem to fit with bvFTD.
Unfortunately the hospital I was in dismissed this notion, as I scored highly on cognitive tests and the Consultant Psychiatrist claimed this meant that any sort of dementia was therefore an impossibility.
I am now out of hospital and have moved from the Midlands to Scotland. Here the approach has been very different, and my new Consultant arranged a CT scan. This shows a ‘degree of atrophy’ to the frontal lobes. As a result of this I am now awaiting a SPECT scan.
But I’ve just aced yet another cognitive test, and I am fully aware of the personality changes that I have undergone.
It’s been suggested to me that I may have frontotemporal degeneration without dementia. Does anyone know if this is possible?
And can anyone recommend any further tests that might tease out cognitive areas that I believe have diminished? I struggle to plan, and seem to have little or no concept of the future - which I find extremely hard to explain to people.
And how the heck do I motivate myself when all I want to do is lie down all day?
Thank you
I am aged 67 and was hospitalised 18 months ago with depression - but since then I began to feel that there was something organic or neurological happening. I have developed a range of behaviours (anhedonia, apathy, loss of empathy and humour) that seem to fit with bvFTD.
Unfortunately the hospital I was in dismissed this notion, as I scored highly on cognitive tests and the Consultant Psychiatrist claimed this meant that any sort of dementia was therefore an impossibility.
I am now out of hospital and have moved from the Midlands to Scotland. Here the approach has been very different, and my new Consultant arranged a CT scan. This shows a ‘degree of atrophy’ to the frontal lobes. As a result of this I am now awaiting a SPECT scan.
But I’ve just aced yet another cognitive test, and I am fully aware of the personality changes that I have undergone.
It’s been suggested to me that I may have frontotemporal degeneration without dementia. Does anyone know if this is possible?
And can anyone recommend any further tests that might tease out cognitive areas that I believe have diminished? I struggle to plan, and seem to have little or no concept of the future - which I find extremely hard to explain to people.
And how the heck do I motivate myself when all I want to do is lie down all day?
Thank you
