My mom has always been a very gentle person. She was almost always soft spoken and rarely cussed. in all of my 43 years I have only heard her use the F word perhaps twice and she didn't even finish saying the word. It is now her new favorite thing to say. She will now tell me to ----- off if i don't agree with what she is saying. My mom is now rude to people in public or on the phone. She has threatened doctors office employees over the phone that she was going to go down to the office and hurt them. My mom and i have always had open communication about sex and intimacy. But, not with too much detail. She is now speaking about sex to everyone she meets. She has talked to my teen (18 and 19 yr old) daughters about her sex life and has offered to purchase them umm lets just say gadgets. She becomes enraged when a conversation is in opposition to her views. Flipping over a kitchen table or throwing her cell phone down on the cement. She has spent all of their money in days and has not paid bills or rent. She will call my home at midnight to chat and not think anything of it. She can tell me a story then leave the room to put her shoes on and when she returns she will tell me the same story as if I had never heard it. My mom was never a drinker. She very rarely had even a glass of wine. She has begun drinking brandy now and will drink a bottle of brandy within a week. My dad doesn't know what to do. He is very concerned! I don't know what to do! We have been to doctors for other health reasons (she has edema issues that she is being tested for) they are running tests but tell us psychologically she is fine. Most of these behaviors are not every day. Her money spending and new obsession with sex is though. Does this sound like typical aging as I am being told or do some of these drastic personality changes sound like something is happening neurologically?
I think not. Your mother is ten years older than I am. I don't expect to be swearing like a trooper in public and giving sex tips to teenagers within a decade.
If you described to your mother's doctor what you have told us, I am astonished that the opinion was that she is psychologically fine. Unless the practitioner was making a nice distinction between psychologically and neurologically fine.
This is a *marked* change in behaviour, including an apparent *significant* loss of inhibition. It accompanies ? heart failure. If you plan to accompany your mother to see the cardiologist, be sure to tell her/him in detail what you have observed. If you will not be there, write a clear account and deliver it to the cardiologist in advance.
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If there is Early Onset Alzheimers in her medical history ( meaning onset before 65) I'd have her seen by a neurologist asap.
Your Mom is younger than I am, but I remember having a UTI but I was watching out for it as I had a kidney stone surgery, so I went immediately to the ER when I felt I wasn't feeling quite right. Sure enough it was a UTI, and antibiotics cured the problem once the doctor figured out what type of infection it was.
Hopefully your Mom's situation is as simple as a UTi. If it isn't an UTI, at least that would be ruled out. You can also rule out cardio issues as it is very rare to have those types of side effects from that.
Has your Mom been placed on any new prescription medicine?
http://www.theaftd.org/understandingftd/disorders/bv-ftd