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Mar. 26th, 2009 07:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
la_belle_laideI think I know what my Gran has. "Dementia" is just a symptom;it doesn't happen spontaneously. So I did a little research and I came up with Lewy body disease.
The symptoms are spot on. It says the first symptom is vivid dreams that the person acts out, and it occurs years before the onset of the other symptoms. My Gran has been physically acting out her crazy dreams for about ten years.
Web pages say that hallucinations (such as seeing a pet or a person in a chair or a bed) are very common. And that is exactly her most frequent hallucination. She sees kittens, or her dog, on her chair all the time. Usually patients get put on prescription anti-psychotics because of these dreams and hallucinations, but that those drugs make the symptoms worse and that it can damage their kidneys. Gran's symptoms did get worse on those drugs, and her kidney levels were elevated at her trip to the ER.
Seriously, what else could this be? She has a doctor's appointment tomorrow (the same time as Haku's appointment!) and I seriously hope the doctor takes this idea seriously and doesn't hand-wave it. >_
The symptoms are spot on. It says the first symptom is vivid dreams that the person acts out, and it occurs years before the onset of the other symptoms. My Gran has been physically acting out her crazy dreams for about ten years.
Web pages say that hallucinations (such as seeing a pet or a person in a chair or a bed) are very common. And that is exactly her most frequent hallucination. She sees kittens, or her dog, on her chair all the time. Usually patients get put on prescription anti-psychotics because of these dreams and hallucinations, but that those drugs make the symptoms worse and that it can damage their kidneys. Gran's symptoms did get worse on those drugs, and her kidney levels were elevated at her trip to the ER.
Seriously, what else could this be? She has a doctor's appointment tomorrow (the same time as Haku's appointment!) and I seriously hope the doctor takes this idea seriously and doesn't hand-wave it. >_
