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Has anyone had their loved one get an MRI? Has any neurologist suggested one? Is there...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1123548/

Discussion: I feel like start running and not look back!

Support Group: Caregivers: Dementia

Posted: Aug 14, 2024

He dies have an appt with courage kenny driving program on nov 8. His neurologist said...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/882827/

Discussion: No more Driving

Support Group: Caregivers: Dementia

Posted: Jun 22, 2023

My husband has moderate Alzheimer's Disease. He's been napping a lot for a few years. The...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1222508/

Discussion: Easily exhausted: Anyone else's partner/patient experience this?

Support Group: Caregivers: Dementia

Posted: Jan 26 5:24pm

My husband was diagnosed with MCI by a Neurologist at a world class hospital a few...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1397767/

Discussion: Infusion Therapy. Step 1

Support Group: Caregivers: Dementia

Posted: 4 days ago

Have you seen a neurologist and international infectious disease specialist. Make a list of all the...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1208790/

Discussion: Rapid Mental Decline in My Mother (65): Desperate for Diagnosis, Care

Support Group: Caregivers: Dementia

Posted: Jan 11 7:13am

She has had two MRIs. Neurologists couldn't see any obvious abnormalcies. The second neurologist told us...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/981632/

Discussion: What am I missing?

Support Group: Caregivers: Dementia

Posted: Dec 16, 2023

Hello @adv. What behaviors is your husband exhibiting that make you think of dementia? If the...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/304466/

Discussion: All brain scans good: Could my husband still have dementia?

Support Group: Caregivers: Dementia

Posted: Apr 2, 2020

Cmael, did the neurologist prescribe the THC and CBD or ok it? A lot of people...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/850948/

Discussion: MD hesitant to prescribe meds for dementia

Support Group: Caregivers: Dementia

Posted: Apr 28, 2023

My husband had been seeing the same neurologist for years for treatment of essential tremors when...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1127650/

Discussion: Caregivers: Early Onset Alzheimer's, diagnosis age 19 to 65

Support Group: Caregivers: Dementia

Posted: Aug 20, 2024

We have two neuropsychologists, a geriatrician and my husbands PCP. We have never seen a neurologist....

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1215388/

Discussion: What is the point of seeing a neuropsychologist?

Support Group: Caregivers: Dementia

Posted: Jan 18 7:26am

No, it was the jerk neurologist who did. I have to laugh because my husband was...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/624859/

Discussion: Recent LBD with Parkinsonism diagnosis

Support Group: Parkinson's Disease

Posted: Aug 9, 2021

Thanks for the info on this. It may have shed some new “light” for options for...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/624368/

Discussion: Recent LBD with Parkinsonism diagnosis

Support Group: Parkinson's Disease

Posted: Aug 8, 2021

I have told his neurologist that I’ve been giving it to him. It’s legal in MN-5mgs....

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/850980/

Discussion: MD hesitant to prescribe meds for dementia

Support Group: Caregivers: Dementia

Posted: Apr 28, 2023

I would think you could get a referral from your Primary Doctor to go to another...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/722969/

Discussion: Recent LBD with Parkinsonism diagnosis

Support Group: Parkinson's Disease

Posted: Jul 2, 2022

Thank you for your reply. My husband does not realize the severity of his cognitive decline...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1398438/

Discussion: Infusion Therapy. Step 1

Support Group: Caregivers: Dementia

Posted: 3 days ago

I wrote this some time ago but I will suggest it again in case it helps...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1160043/

Discussion: Dad won't let go of driving

Support Group: Caregivers: Dementia

Posted: Oct 20, 2024

@japlok, I'd like to add my welcome. You have received good information from other members and...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1313423/

Discussion: Alzheimers care and treatments: Consult with Mayo Clinic?

Support Group: Caregivers: Dementia

Posted: May 26 2:17pm

We've moved beyond the neurologist. She's on memantine and donepezil, now routinely prescribed by our primary...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1031473/

Discussion: No more Driving

Support Group: Caregivers: Dementia

Posted: Mar 11, 2024

Thank you so much. He had one in 2017 when we first went to visit the...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/328836/

Discussion: My wife forgetting: Diagnosed with MCI

Support Group: Caregivers: Dementia

Posted: Jan 27, 2021

How were you able to get a neurologist? All we get are written are verbal memory...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1251734/

Discussion: I don't know why I did that

Support Group: Caregivers: Dementia

Posted: Mar 6 11:09am

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