good evening!
I have been reading around the forum and I am just so amazed at the number of people this awful disease affects - my heart goes out to each and everyone of you.
My mum (74) lives with me in Spain and started showing short term memory loss 6 years ago, she has now been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia. There is zero help and support here in Spain, so I struggle on with my husband and fear very soon we will have to seek returning her to the UK or find a home here (very limited as Spanish family pretty much do everything).
My main current concern is that despite going to the bathroom 10,20 times in the space on an hour - she just can't pee or open her bowels, she can't figure out what to do at all. I have to sit in there with her and direct her - with an awful lot of physical pushing and straining from her which exhausts her - sometimes we strike it lucky and get a good amount, sometimes nothing.
Worried it may be a mechanical issue - I went to her gp with her and he just said it is normal with her dementia.
If I wasn't with her- she would just fill up and goodness only knows what would happen.
She takes trazadone and rivastigmine patches. She eats a god diet and drinks as much as I can get down her (but not as much I would like)
Interested to know if anyone else has experience of this? I thought I would be dealing with incontinence not this!!!!
I have been reading around the forum and I am just so amazed at the number of people this awful disease affects - my heart goes out to each and everyone of you.
My mum (74) lives with me in Spain and started showing short term memory loss 6 years ago, she has now been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia. There is zero help and support here in Spain, so I struggle on with my husband and fear very soon we will have to seek returning her to the UK or find a home here (very limited as Spanish family pretty much do everything).
My main current concern is that despite going to the bathroom 10,20 times in the space on an hour - she just can't pee or open her bowels, she can't figure out what to do at all. I have to sit in there with her and direct her - with an awful lot of physical pushing and straining from her which exhausts her - sometimes we strike it lucky and get a good amount, sometimes nothing.
Worried it may be a mechanical issue - I went to her gp with her and he just said it is normal with her dementia.
If I wasn't with her- she would just fill up and goodness only knows what would happen.
She takes trazadone and rivastigmine patches. She eats a god diet and drinks as much as I can get down her (but not as much I would like)
Interested to know if anyone else has experience of this? I thought I would be dealing with incontinence not this!!!!