No one has a diagnosis for my gradma and its creating a strain in the family
Hi everyone
Decided to post on Reddit because so far, professional help hasnt been helpful 😕
Btw, English isnt my first language
My gradma, in 2021 was diagnosed with anxiety disorder and has been medicated ever since.
But since the begining, she has some crises from time to time where she doesnt recognize my grandpa, her husband. And every physician - general GP, psychiatrist and neurologist, doesnt value this situation.
This year, things are worse.
It has become more frequent these type of episodes where she doesnt recognize her husband and other symptoms have appeared:
- She has these wierd conversation where "other people" are going to pick her up to go to the airport, or buy stuff from her
- She has several days where she doesnt stop crying.
- She mixes days of the week, and says that there is school on saturdays. The other day, she told me that someone changed the sequence of the days of the week and that friday came first and then came thursday.
These episodes are more frequent in the end of the day and during the winter.
During these episodes, she says that my grandpa is some stranger and wants him to leave the house. She can be verbally abusive towards him.
She has done blood work, CT scan and a MRI and everything is normal for her age (76 years old) and for her medical history ( in 2018 she had a brain surgery to extract a meningeal tumor and the surgery went well).
Any idea of where to go from here?