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MCI progression, radio silence wanted
Caregivers: Dementia | Last Active: Feb 24 7:30pm | Replies (26)Comment receiving replies
Need a little more advice. Wife was asked, by her then doctor, to have some tests done because she was showing signs of dementia. Got mad as a hornet! Refused the test and refused to go back to that doctor. I got her an appointment with my doctor, gave him a heads up, and we both went to her appointment. He never mentioned that possibility, checked everything out, and said to keep on doing what she was doing. She has continued to get more confused with each day. Still drives but just to her beauty appointment. Terribly forgetful. And occasionally, like today, jumps my bones about absolutely nothing. How can I get her back to doctors so they can diagnose her?
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@141942 Do what I did. I wrote a note in the portal to the doctor. Told her upfront what was going on and my concern over my husband's memory loss. Asked if she could be seen with both of us in the room together so we discussed both of our ailments, that way it looked more like, a health check for both of us. We had mold in our house, and I was able to leverage that so I don't know if you have some "lead in" you can use, which helped me in getting my husband into the primary care. But it helped, and from that visit, that day, the doctor tested him, and suggested he been seen by a neurologist and explained gently, that memory loss at this age isn't uncommon, but she thought more might be going on, and an MRI and Pet scan with a neurologist would help determine if there was something to be concerned about.