Brief history of the onset of Alzeimheir's;no links please?!


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Brief history of the onset of Alzeimheir's;no links please?

I am particularly looking for confirmation of my suspicions that its very gradual onset means that it is not noticed at first


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I believe that in Europe they have been doing some tests on early diagnosis. One of the first symptoms before any mental decline is actually a loss of smell. People loose some ability to detect faint odors almost 15 years before they are usually diagnosed with the disease. There has also been a theory that bilateral inconsistency in strength is an early symptom.

As someone else said there are slight memory problems, "forgetfulness", and some mood changes. Unnatural fears is another early symptom, afraid that people are going to steal from you, keeping the doors and windows locked unnecessarily, and a loss of taste.

Eventually the typical symptoms that most people think of develop- severe forgetfulness, problems with speech, getting lost, wandering, hand-wringing, coordination problems, etc. And finally an eventual decline into death.
Just from watching a couple of inlaws fail during the disease, I believe that it presents itself in subtle ways almost 20 years before the end. When you look back at strange behaviors and symptoms, you see the progression of symptoms. Early symptoms are so minute, loss of smell, fearful imaginations, slight paranoia, mood changes, slight forgetfulness and searching for "lost" words, slight hoarding tendencies........ Now those things make sense, but 15-20 years ago they were just strange.




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