My mum was recently diagnosed as having pseudo-dementia and AD. She's been displaying problems with her short term memory for just over a year; it's as if she's she's not paying attention to what she's told. This is part of the pseudo-dementia and that's being treated with anti-depressants.
Over the last three weeks or so, she's begun to display other symptoms (?) and I was wondering if they were connected.
She has never had a particularly good apetite and after a leg amputation, she has struggled to maintain her weight - just short of 7 stone - but she's started to throw cooked food away, rather than eat it. Usually, any leftovers are put in the fridge, but she's actually throwing fairly large quantities of food away and I think she's trying to hide the fact that she's not eating.
She can't do much in the way of housework, but she likes to do her bit, so she usually washes the pots. Recently any washing up has been done by myself or her carer. She won't open her curtains unless I tell her to and there's other little things she used to do that she won't do without prompting.
Most worrying, is her apparant lack of logical thinking. Our cat has an infected bite and needs to go to the vet so, this morning I closed the cat flap. We only ever close the flap when the cat has a problem and mum is aware of the infection. But as soon as she saw he couldn't get out, she opened the flap. This is very unusual behaviour for my mum and I was wondering if it was connected to AD?
Sorry for the long winded post. X
Over the last three weeks or so, she's begun to display other symptoms (?) and I was wondering if they were connected.
She has never had a particularly good apetite and after a leg amputation, she has struggled to maintain her weight - just short of 7 stone - but she's started to throw cooked food away, rather than eat it. Usually, any leftovers are put in the fridge, but she's actually throwing fairly large quantities of food away and I think she's trying to hide the fact that she's not eating.
She can't do much in the way of housework, but she likes to do her bit, so she usually washes the pots. Recently any washing up has been done by myself or her carer. She won't open her curtains unless I tell her to and there's other little things she used to do that she won't do without prompting.
Most worrying, is her apparant lack of logical thinking. Our cat has an infected bite and needs to go to the vet so, this morning I closed the cat flap. We only ever close the flap when the cat has a problem and mum is aware of the infection. But as soon as she saw he couldn't get out, she opened the flap. This is very unusual behaviour for my mum and I was wondering if it was connected to AD?
Sorry for the long winded post. X
I know when my mum was first put on these(Mirtazapine and Lorazepam) they seemed to make her worse and created a total lack of empathy and understanding, she was then tested for a UTI which alas she did have, but not sure if it was the medication that caused this or just one of those things
