4 ms·

Are you willing to share more about how you detected/measured the decline? I have felt a bit paranoid it's happening to me but I'm not sure how to be sure.

y-c-o-m-b 3y ago
Sorry to respond late, not sure if you will see this. My primary concerns are the fact that I hallucinate (animals, people, objects), get lost/confused in my own neighborhood, and memory issues (can't recall family member names, word finding issues, and can't keep count to 10 when I'm exercising for example). Now this is tricky because I've also had schizotypal personality disorder and ADHD since my teens, but never any visual hallucinations or memory problems until recently. My hallucinations are not the scary type either. For example I'll hallucinate seeing a large cat run down my hallway and I'll step out of the way for it, except I don't have any pets. A 4x4 post can briefly turn into a person. Lastly I was given a brief cognitive test in my doctor's office and I scored at the same level as someone with dementia. It's important to emphasize this may not be dementia, and could be something else entirely like hormones, liver, thyroid, or other neurological problems that mimic the symptoms of dementia/alzheimers. That being said, dementia is what my doctor has sent me to a neurologist for and what we're testing for.
- zhivota 3y ago
  Gotcha, yeah those are much more overt than I was expecting. I hope you get it figured out. I was expecting it would be more like generic concentration and memory issues. For what it's worth, my dad got a form of dementia and the hallucinations weren't part of it. It was more just forgetting things that he had always known, like the road network around where I grew up. My mom said he would call sometimes and say he couldn't remember how to get home from places where he had been many times. Also just a change in affect overall which wasn't obvious at the time, because of how gradual it happened, but later was very obvious in retrospect.

y-c-o-m-b 3y ago

Sorry to respond late, not sure if you will see this. My primary concerns are the fact that I hallucinate (animals, people, objects), get lost/confused in my own neighborhood, and memory issues (can't recall family member names, word finding issues, and can't keep count to 10 when I'm exercising for example). Now this is tricky because I've also had schizotypal personality disorder and ADHD since my teens, but never any visual hallucinations or memory problems until recently. My hallucinations are not the scary type either. For example I'll hallucinate seeing a large cat run down my hallway and I'll step out of the way for it, except I don't have any pets. A 4x4 post can briefly turn into a person. Lastly I was given a brief cognitive test in my doctor's office and I scored at the same level as someone with dementia. It's important to emphasize this may not be dementia, and could be something else entirely like hormones, liver, thyroid, or other neurological problems that mimic the symptoms of dementia/alzheimers. That being said, dementia is what my doctor has sent me to a neurologist for and what we're testing for.

zhivota 3y ago
Gotcha, yeah those are much more overt than I was expecting. I hope you get it figured out. I was expecting it would be more like generic concentration and memory issues. For what it's worth, my dad got a form of dementia and the hallucinations weren't part of it. It was more just forgetting things that he had always known, like the road network around where I grew up. My mom said he would call sometimes and say he couldn't remember how to get home from places where he had been many times. Also just a change in affect overall which wasn't obvious at the time, because of how gradual it happened, but later was very obvious in retrospect.