The Alzheimers Disease Early Symptom

It is easy to confuse the Alzheimers disease early symptom with age related memory loss. Don't necessarily think that because you cannot remember you are getting AD.

Forgetfulness is only one of many facets of AD.

More importantly, the Alzheimers disease early symptoms could be mistaken for a serious medical emergency that needs prompt attention. Do you see a common thread that will be running here.

You Need To See a Doctor Either Way

Forgetfulness could be brought on by a new medicine, an old medicine like Benadryl, lack of sleep, stress, low blood sugar, and a number of other health challenges.

The symptoms fall under the category of Cognitive, Non-cognitive, and Social. This page will only look at the cognitive Alzheimers disease early symptom.

Cognitive Challenges

Cognition relates to the brain function of thinking, speaking, reasoning, understanding, remembering, planning, and demonstrating good judgment.

Forgetfulness

Difficulty remembering things that were known, difficulty recalling newly learned information, difficulty retaining information.

Note...Your memory may not be as bad as you think. It may just be untrained. I have worked with a number of clients up into their 70's who were surprised at how good their memories were with a little training. As an example, consider how you can learn to Read and Remember.

Also a series of mini strokes could, if found and treated, prevent further memory loss.

Lumbering with the Language

Challenges with finding the right words and similar sounding words or limited ability to create coherent sentences. Nonsensical speech and challenges understanding the spoken word are also indicators.

These could also be red flags. If you or a dear loved one suddenly have an onset of these symptoms, you need to get them to the nearest emergency department. These are signs of a Brain Attack or Stroke.

One friend told of how his boss started using profanity. In the over 25 years he had worked with the man, never once had he so much as uttered even the mildest of swear words. He recognized it as a stroke and the man was taken to the hospital in time to get a clot busting drug that saved his cognitive ability.

Disorientation Difficulty

So often those AD patients I see will know who they are. We will say they are oriented to person. They may not be oriented to place and time. They may not know where they are or may get lost in familiar places. Time of day, time of year and so forth may be difficult to recall.

Don't confuse this with Sundown Syndrome. When the sun goes down, in the dark of the evening and especially if one of the patients I am caring for has just got a pain med, they will forget who they are, where they are and why they are where they are. It will all come back in the morning.

Organizing Shmorganizing

The inability to organize or plan likewise is one of the Alzheimers disease early symptoms. If in possession of more than one watch, all may be worn due to forgetting the other one is on the wrist. It is not uncommon to see three watches on an arm.

You might ask, don't they see the first when they start to put on the second? That is how debilitating the disease is.

Likewise groceries may go in the trash and trash in the refrigerator. Stoves and other cooking devices can pose major health concerns for AD victims.

Things like making change in a restaurant for the tip (lets see, take the amount of the 6% tax x 3 =18% tip) and following plans, working toward goals, even controlling impulses are though processes of the brain that can be affected.

Current thinking is that memory relate changes in the AD patients start decades before the onset of Alzheimer's. This is good to know. This makes it something that can be treated now.

In the memory loss department, remember it is a slow and steady progression of lost memories. It will be little things at first. It will keep slowly progressing. It is important that a health care professional see your loved one to get a proper work up and most importantly a proper diagnosis.

The Alzheimers disease early symptom is only one part of the puzzle. There are other parts that need to be considered. More importantly, there is an association with the Alzheimers disease early symptom and a lack of Glutathione in the brain.

Anecdotal evidence suggests that boosting the GSH could slow down the progression. More on this will be here soon.

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