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Developed a weird dementia at 39. Doctors Spent 2 years trying every prescription drug they could think of. Almost everything made matters worse. In some cas
by treeman79 5y ago
Developed a weird dementia at 39. Doctors Spent 2 years trying every prescription drug they could think of. Almost everything made matters worse. In some cases drastically. Complete nightmare. Those are with approved ones. Scary to try experiential.
Eventually learned it was a blood disorder and a simple blood thinner was the answer.
- nefitty 5y agoWow. It sounds like you're better and hope you're better! That's an incredible story. Good on you for not giving up. You just lit a fire under my butt.
- cma 5y agoWhich blood disorder?
- treeman79 5y agoFactor 5 Leiden. I clot easily. So mini strokes. Turns out tiny clots don’t show up on MRIs.
- texasbigdata 5y agoVery interested in this. So your c-reactive protein, d-dimer (sp?), etc etc showed negative? How did you find the clots? When you say "tiny", in medical terms do you mean mili or micro meters (I think that's right). You might like the #1 book on Amazon under cardiology currently. Its thesis is cholesterol has nothing to do with heart diseases, its all in the clots. Good detail of the clotting process and relatively understandable.
- treeman79 5y agoHad a Pulmary embolism. Was gasping for air and coughing up flecks of blood. At the Er the Blood work was perfect. D-dimer, everything. Genetic testing came back positive later on. So they put on blood thinners. A few days later my dementia was gone. Was solving complex programming problems with ease once more. Every time I try and go off them all the symptoms come back. So it was this that micro-clots was determined. Also when drawing blood nurses kept complaining that my blood clots to fast.
- dennisgorelik 5y agoHow did you learn it was a blood disorder?