Hi to everyone, I am looking for advice about my wife of 48 years. She has always had some problems, we even had a private visit with a psychiatrist in the mid 1970's because of her huge mood swings, he thought it could be hormonal but was unable to get a blood sample that day and we did not do any follow up.
I retired four years ago and we moved back to the city where we were born, I have observed over the past three years a lot of memory problems, for example we will go shopping and buy something for dinner, on the way home she will ask about three or four times what are we having for dinner, this was worse this Christmas period, on the 27th she though the shops would be closed because it was Christmas, I explained but this continued through the day finally on the 28th she realised Christmas was passed.
She gets very angry and talks about divorce and then two hours later she is happy.
She has certain stories about things that happened to her in the past that she repeats a lot talking for about two hours non stop but recently she is adding things into her stories such as someone speaking to her in one story when in the past it was just that she saw them in the distance.
I have tried to get her to the GP but she does not keep the appointment, the other thing is she studied psychology at the OU and can sound very confident when talking to people.
Could it be Alzheimers? she has just turned 73
I retired four years ago and we moved back to the city where we were born, I have observed over the past three years a lot of memory problems, for example we will go shopping and buy something for dinner, on the way home she will ask about three or four times what are we having for dinner, this was worse this Christmas period, on the 27th she though the shops would be closed because it was Christmas, I explained but this continued through the day finally on the 28th she realised Christmas was passed.
She gets very angry and talks about divorce and then two hours later she is happy.
She has certain stories about things that happened to her in the past that she repeats a lot talking for about two hours non stop but recently she is adding things into her stories such as someone speaking to her in one story when in the past it was just that she saw them in the distance.
I have tried to get her to the GP but she does not keep the appointment, the other thing is she studied psychology at the OU and can sound very confident when talking to people.
Could it be Alzheimers? she has just turned 73