gizmolove

(going back to her childhood)?

Surely you're not saying that your grandmother has had AD symptoms sence childhood? The symptoms of AD do not occure until at least the mid 40ies and even that is very young for this disease; and, usually some other form of dementia (not Alzheimer's). Most symptoms of confusion and memory do not occure until the 60's.

(But she has never been diagnosed by a doctor.)?

Only a qualified doctor, preferably a specilist can diagnose Alzheimer's disease. And this is very importent as only then can she be put on medications that can be effective in controling this disease and it's symptoms.

(no one can understand a word she is saying)?
This is a very vague symptom. And, it would depend upon so many things that are hard to go into fully in this forum. How long has this been going on? Is it a from a disease of the brain, or an injury, or a chemical imbalance? Only a good doctor will be able to diagnose this for you and your mother. The right diagnosis and medications may help. However, it is important for your mother to understand (with a brain damaged patient), weather the problem is physical, mental or emotional. Sometimes with brain damage or disfunction, you have to be a detective to truely understand what is happening and what someone with this type of impairment really means. (Did she ever speak another launguage?)

My mother, (who did have Alzheimer's), at one time woke up screaming in the middle of the night with hands full of hair in her hand and begging me to help her pull her hair out. I consulted with the doctor and raised her anti-phycotic medication the next day, which did helped. But, the more I understood about the brain damage that Alzheimer's victums go thru, the more I realised that the problem that my mom was having with that episode was not phycotic; but rather, the brain damage from her disease which made it impossiable for her to tell me that her "head itched". Then, once I really started to understand my mothers disease and the limitations that that was giving her, I realised that I had to be an ever vidulant detective to determine what was wrong, as she had long sense lost the ability to tell me.

No one here would or should advise medically for your grandmother as Betty has said. If you do not get her to a proper doctor for an accurate diagnoses and medication, I'm afraid that you are basically just spinning your wheels with this.

And if she has had this from childhood, It is probably something else anyway, and not Alzheimer's disease. Either way, it would be a shame not to attend to this problem with a proper evaluation, as medications either way, do help. But the first thing is that you have to at least know what you are treating. Not only for the right medications to be prescribed but also to research and understand better what is really causing your grandmother this kind of problem(s).

Hope this helps you and your mom,
Gizmo

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