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After reading online about long term side effects of anti depressents and damage that they cause to the upper and lower neurons, I feel that this is the cause and not ALS. One side of her body is affected. Walking, speech effected. Any thoughts from anyone?

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General Anesthesia or any, in the older population can also have profound effect. Did she break a hip? Get versed ....that's a baddie too.
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Don't discount the damage that may be the result of those mini strokes, it can be cumulative. When a doctor at the nursing home asked me when my mom had her stroke I told them she hadn't, at least none had ever been diagnosed or treated - she had, however, a history of many TIA's, probably going back decades. One doctor told me her MRI image "lit up like a christmas tree". I wish he would have mentioned the consequences of that can be both physical and cognitive (I didn't learn that until I found AgingCare).
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Segoline Jan 2019
I think the strokes are the flashing lights here.
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If you mean ALZ, which sounds like you do...my mom's first geriatric psychiatrist answered thusly when I asked if anything hastens the onset.

Any med with anti before it or p.m. after it. Let that sink in.
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Sorry, did you mean ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis aka Lou Gehrig's disease) or Alzheimer's ALZ?
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