HI,
Looking for some advice...my partner has had a scan which shows frontal brain shrinkage...her psychological assessment shows that there is supporting evidence of deterioration, particularly around her processing and social skills, though her memory is pretty ok at present...because of this the psychologist has suggested the likelihood of fronto-temporal dementia and in a private conversation with me told me that if the blood tests are normal (which they were), that i need to accept that is unlikely to be anything else...however when speaking to her neurological consultant with my partner present, the consultant said she doesnt meet all the diagnostic criteria at the moment, though he does think it is a degenerative condition...all that is left is have a periodic psychological assessment and see if the deterioration continues...
the question i have, is whether there are any rare, 1 in a million type illnesses i need to be aware of as possibilities, and to ensure the consultant is checking for this as well...i know the blood tests did look at things like HIV and lyme's disease but just want to make sure im covering all possibilities...
the other question i have is whether anybody's diagnosis has ever changed from fronto-temporal dementia to korsakoff syndrome? my partners family are wondering whether she has korsakoff even though the psychologist said it was unlikely...she did have a problem with alcohol to the extent that most weeks for a 2yr period she would drink the recommended weekly limit...however she was never an alcoholic who drink bottles of vodka a day...my only concern is that if it was korsakoff, then she should be getting stable since she stopped drinking over 6mths ago...any thoughts?
Looking for some advice...my partner has had a scan which shows frontal brain shrinkage...her psychological assessment shows that there is supporting evidence of deterioration, particularly around her processing and social skills, though her memory is pretty ok at present...because of this the psychologist has suggested the likelihood of fronto-temporal dementia and in a private conversation with me told me that if the blood tests are normal (which they were), that i need to accept that is unlikely to be anything else...however when speaking to her neurological consultant with my partner present, the consultant said she doesnt meet all the diagnostic criteria at the moment, though he does think it is a degenerative condition...all that is left is have a periodic psychological assessment and see if the deterioration continues...
the question i have, is whether there are any rare, 1 in a million type illnesses i need to be aware of as possibilities, and to ensure the consultant is checking for this as well...i know the blood tests did look at things like HIV and lyme's disease but just want to make sure im covering all possibilities...
the other question i have is whether anybody's diagnosis has ever changed from fronto-temporal dementia to korsakoff syndrome? my partners family are wondering whether she has korsakoff even though the psychologist said it was unlikely...she did have a problem with alcohol to the extent that most weeks for a 2yr period she would drink the recommended weekly limit...however she was never an alcoholic who drink bottles of vodka a day...my only concern is that if it was korsakoff, then she should be getting stable since she stopped drinking over 6mths ago...any thoughts?