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PurpleOutsider posted...

My mom had recurring problems with urinary tractor infections for the last six years of her life and she had delusions very similar to that. I remember one day, she was absolutely determined that there was a boy in her room, and he jumped into the dirty clothes bin right before I came in. She 100% thought it was real.

It wasn't consistent. Very random. Also, UTIs could also cause her to absolutely rage at her doctors, so definitely watch for random mood swings.

May your mom RIP. *hug* So she just had UTI's but never dementia?

Update: this morning he woke up normally. He didn't have any urge to go to some event that doesn't exist. He drove again today for errands and he drove fine.

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Naysaspace posted...

while there are actual doctors who post on CE, i do not think any of them specialize in this sort of thing.

Ah, I see.

xGhostchantx posted...

That on its own doesn't seem too worrying, but you should definitely get to a doctor. There's heaps of symptoms that go unnoticed by us layman

He has his yearly physical coming up soon.

Dark_Arbron posted...

I freak out every time my mother has a moment (age 70) because there's a good chance we are genetically disposed toward dementia. Said grandmother was one of eight children and four of them - including her - developed it. There's coincidence, and then there's that.

If it makes you feel any better, I read the other day that dementia isn't hereditary (contrary to popular belief).

I'm very, very sorry your grandmother went through that though my friend.

Update: he drove yesterday and was just fine. Didn't get lost or anything. Two hours ago I recommended he try a memory picture matching game at https://www.memozor.com/memory-games/for-seniors-or-elderly/nature-gifs and for a game he hasn't played in forever, he did OK the first try. The second try though, he crushed it.

BucketCat posted...

my grandma has dementia right now, the early signs a few years ago were her asking or saying the same things repeatedly. at first, she'd kinda just get "stuck" on one thing, like a question or topic. so she'd be talking/conversing like her usual self, then randomly would ask/bring up the same thing over and over.
as time went on, it got worse by asking/bringing up the same thing more often each time.
that was a while ago, and now it's very bad in comparison, I sincerely hope your dad or anyone you know doesn't have to experience it in any way.

I'm very sorry to hear about your grandma. Sincerely!

I see. Thanks for the response.

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I'm sorry to hear about him having trouble walking but I'm also glad to hear that he's OK!

Bass posted...

I doubt anything is wrong with him, and I doubt this is applicable in your instance, but UTIs can manifest symptoms in strange ways in older adults. Can make they act out really strangely.

Thank you. What are UTIs btw?

SweetNut_Farm posted...

I'm 71 and worry about dementia and I have dreamed about work related things that when I wake up I'm foggy for a few minutes.

It's nice you are concerned and working with your dad. Good luck to you both.

Thank you Sweet! 71 and still a gamer? Respect. That's what I'm gonna be doing at 71 (if I'm lucky enough to live that long lol).

008Zulu posted...

Sounds like he's bored. Just dreaming of better times.

Hmmm, I will ask him about that (if he's just bored).

MC_BatCommander posted...

I don't know anything about dementia but that just sounds like weird dreams? You've never had a dream where you're back in school and about to miss an important deadline or something? It's a pretty common experience

I actually have dreams about that a lot!

VideoboysaysCube posted...

I don't believe that alone is anything too worrisome. Heck, I'm young and I've had at least two or three occurrences where I wake up from a dream and question for a moment if what I said or did during the dream was something that really happened. I think it's just part of being disoriented when you wake up. It's also been quite a long time since I graduated from school and still have dreams about needing to complete homework assignments and things of that nature. So in my unprofessional opinion, I think this is fairly normal.

Thank you for the response. :)

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Thank you for the response! Is your dad OK btw?

So my dad, who is 74 and is in regular health for his age (and is neither a drinker or a smoker) had something strange occur these past two mornings.

Even though he's been retired since 2012, he dreamed these past two nights that he had to go some work-related function. To him, the dreams seemed so real that yesterday morning he was actually getting ready to go to this non-existent function. As the morning went on he realized that it was just a dream and wasn't real.

This morning he woke up and thought the same thing for a little bit but very quickly realized it wasn't real after he woke up.

Other than these two things, he seems completely fine. I mean, he talks normally. He can hold and follow a conversation normally. He doesn't get any more confused than anyone else who is of that age who is aging normally. He drove somewhere today by himself and didn't get lost or disorientated. I talked to him for quite a while these past two days and he just doesn't sound like a person with dementia. We even went over an online dementia website that has a table of examples of "common aging symptoms" vs. "dementia symptoms". We went through a lot of the examples together and they were all pretty much in the "common aging symptoms" category.

I am still worried though.

Thanks for any insight and advice!