Guest guest Posted October 4, 2008 Report Share Posted October 4, 2008 Greetings, I am writing here because my mother was given a preliminary diagnosis of LBD. She is just 58 as of a few weeks ago. She lives with my father, I am 20 min away and my brother is 3 hours away. She started with hearing voices in the house, and thinking the house was tapped. (backing up I honestly believe she has undiagnosed and untreated depression since my birth) She than went on to lose words in her sentences. She has been on abilify to take care of the psychosis, and now that we are thinking LBD, we are thinking it hass hastened the parkonisms that she has now. I am going to talk to her neurologist on monday. He changed her to seroquel, but I am wondering if we should not scale it back or try to stop it for awhile. She has been at the same job for 38 years. They had to reduce her job to bagging groceries from stocking shelves. We found out yesterday she is not doing that well now. This has all been over a year and a half that the psychosis started(crisis) and about 3 years since she started making small comments about the house being bugged and paranoia. I am almost done my degree in mental health and human services, and a minor in geriatric human services. Just in time I guess, ugg! She was still driving as of yesterday, but I am worried about it now. I am worried she will not beable to make a judgement call. We had an EEG with major slowing in the brain areas, we are having an MRI next week (we had on last march showing no changes), we are also going to see a neuropsych and having a PET??? We are in Maine, and I am looking for a geriatric specialist. I am not sure that is even the way to go. Thank you all for being here, and also thank you for listening to this. Laurie French " There is much more to rescue than handling the dog. There are calls to be made, miles to drive, paperwork to fill out, records to keep. It all costs money. " ~Laurie French For animals needing homes: www.petfinder.com www.neorescue.net http://www.mastiffrescue.org/ _________________________________________________________________ See how Windows connects the people, information, and fun that are part of your life. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/msnnkwxp1020093175mrt/direct/01/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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