Reply to Is loss of modesty a sign of dementia?

Forum Index » Eldercare

Reply to "Is loss of modesty a sign of dementia? "

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]My 88-year-old mother has been losing weight and has had unexplained nausea and dizziness since early July. She spend much of the summer in bed "sick." She is now in rehab with a back injury (compression fracture) and is barely getting out of bed.

I have posted on DCUM about her nausea and my family's efforts to get her to see various specialists including a neurologist. They have ruled out all obvious explanations: inner ear/vestibular; brain tumor; vision; GI issues; UTI. (She has had MRIs and CAT scans including of her head and GI tract.) She has gone off pain pills and other medications that can cause nausea (even Tylenol).

I'm left thinking she is developing some kind of dementia. She still seems sharp and on top of her finances. But one weird thing is that over the summer, she lost all sense of modesty. She would come downstairs naked to get food, according to my stepfather. When I visited her last week at the rehab place, she was not wearing underwear (because "it kept bunching up"). She barely seemd to care that the nurses saw her half naked.

She complains constantly about nausea, dizziness and a "twirling" feeling in her head. She rarely sleeps well and often wakes in the middle of the night with what seem to be panic attacks.

I know these aren't the most obvious signs of dementia, but could that explain her symptoms? Of course, anxiety is another possibility but SSRIs also make her nauseaus, and it would take weeks for them to kick in. 
[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics