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Signs Of Alzheimers Do I Have Oldtimers Disease?

For the past couple of years I have been trying to self diagnose my memory loss symptoms as oldtimers disease, or, clinically speaking, alzheimers disease.

Here are some signs and symptoms of the disease:

Changes in memory or perception of memory that upset your daily life.

Having problems with making plans or finding that simple tasks are becomming difficult to complete.

Forgetting dates and seasons and their significance.

Failure to comprehend certain images and sounds.

You begin making frequent mistakes with words, including speaking and writing.

Unable to remember or retrace your footsteps to find something you lost.

You become disinterested in friends, finding social events unappealing, lack of enthusiasm for special family events. Non social tendencies all around.

Confusion when it comes to using good judgement or making easy decisions.

Your emotions and personality become quite different without any real reason (or) any changes in your environment to attribute it to.

I’m tempted to ask my doctor about a test for early alzheimers onset. I am not sure what this will entail, but I will let you know more when I find out.

For now, instead of calling me oldtimers, we are jokingly calling me sometimers, but in all fairness and seriousness, alzheimers is NO JOKE! I’m trying to keep an open and positive mind about all this.