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Anyone Else Have Mild Dementia?
Just Want to Talk | Last Active: Feb 11, 2023 | Replies (29)Comment receiving replies
@carolee888 , since we moved to NY I have seen a Neurologist, had an MRI which showed I had had some very small mini strokes. The doctor put me on Vit B shots once a month, then went to pills daily. It did help. This year my VB level was too high so I stopped taking it. Now it is too low and I’m back on the pills. However before I got the results of my labs I told my PCP that my memory had not been as good and sure enough VB was low. I keep my calendar next to my chair, and on my phone, and make use of the alarms to remind me when I need to go somewhere.
Just today I found a very nice retirement card which I had written some nice comments in and for the life of me I can’t remember who it was for, and obviously it didn’t get sent.
My life is very busy so I don’t have much time to think about it all. At 76 yrs old I’m well aware that I don’t have a long time to live but I’m young at heart and try to enjoy my days.
An Asprin a day, the Mediterranean diet and exercise was his prescription. I see him yearly.
I hope when everything settles down and you come to terms with what you have to deal with
, that this too will be a normal part of your life that you will learn to compensate for. Your in good hands with the folks here.
Emyliander.
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Hi Emyliander,
We match in age, I got to 76 on May10th this year and even my memory is reliable, I still feel young.
My MRI showed a decrease in mass and mini strokes too. I take B12 sublingual (under my tongue). I took a B complex pill for years and then the doctor told me that it was not doing me any good. But the sublingual ones raised the level on my tests, just remember to take it!
Do you prepare the food for the Mediterrean diet yourself. I fix my breakfast and dinner which are simple and my husband makes me lunch that includes a lot vegetables. I love salad so much but always get sick from the salad greens, raw spinach and anything green from the grocery store. I have a low immune system and cannot drink tap water. Bottled water works for me but I really missed fresh salad greens. Please tell me what you eat on that diet, maybe I change my current diet some.
Thank you,
Carol