Will be having our first consultation next week. She has progressed from short term memory loss to bouts of confusion,anger and short attention span. age is 69 and we do not discuss this at all. this started about 2 years ago after our daughters death.
Plus I felt we couldn't speak freely about her behavior, limitations, prognosis questions etc with her right in front of us. Speaking about her as though she wasn't there I thought was pretty disrespectful too.
Is ur wife on meds because of ur daughters death? If so, maybe that is the cause or any new med. Do u go to a neurologist? If not he will do tests of his own. Your wife is so young.
In my Moms case, she has a problem processing. The doctor keeps talking and she is still trying to understand the first word. We walk out of the doctors office without her understanding or miss interpreting half of what he says. Its always " thats not what he said Mom". Throw in hearing loss....
I have asked, when she is in the hospital, that doctors and nurses not speak with her but to me. They just confuse her.
Your doctor should sit right in front of ur wife and explain to her what is going on and put the word Dementia in there. He should explain what she will see and hear that she shouldn't worry about. Some of her anger may be because she doesn't know what is going on. I know, short term, thats when u can say "remember what the doctor said..."