After having experienced progressive cognitive decline over the past ten months coupled with all manner of random shooting pains blurred vision muscle twitching movement issues etc I've now been told by two different neurologists in the past month I'm suffering from some sort of pseudo dementia / severe somatisation disorder. As previously perfectly healthy 35 year old male I find this very hard to accept but have now had so many different opinions this year all alluding to the same diagnosis two normal MRI scans of the brain innumerable blood tests etc I guess I'm just going to have to go with it. My question is how is something like pseudo dementia treated?
2014-10-30 03:12:04
I totally agree with the last post. When seeking another opinion go in stating all the tests that have been done BUT with no diagnosis. Pseudodementia is a syndrome seen in older people in which they exhibit symptoms consistent with dementia but the cause is a pre-existing psychiatric illness rather than a degenerative one.[1] The name is derived from the Ancient Greek prefix pseudo- "false" prepended to dementia. Older people with predominant cognitive symptoms such as loss of memory and vagueness as well as prominent slowing of movement and reduced or slowed speech were sometimes misdiagnosed as having dementia when further investigation showed they were suffering from a major depressive episode.[2] This was an important distinction as the former was untreatable and progressive and the latter treatable with antidepressant therapy or electroconvulsive therapy or both.[3] You don't fit the profiel get a second opinion.
2014-10-30 03:12:55
