My husband is going to a specialist. He is on the Exelon Patch, and several pills. He takes large amounts of fish oil and still is able to drive. However, his short term memory is getting worse. Also, he seems to get really upset about small things....acting as though they were really big problems. At 7 a.m. every morning he moves his car from our garage to the front of our house, so that no one else will take "his" parking place. He feels our neighbors are a problem, and have too many cars, and friends, and wants to move. I try to reason with him and ask him what they have done to him and he gets angry with me for "taking their side".
I'm sorry that it upsets you and you accuse us of giving up. The reality is that we have been where you are now. We have tried Bredesen's diet, fish oil, no-sugar diets, and EVERYTHING else. It just doesn't work.
If there was a way to slow down the loss of short-term memory, it would be on the front page of every newspaper and EVERYBODY would be doing it. After years of trying everything, I am sick of the hucksters taking advantage of folks like us that are looking for hope.
Are you sure it is a good idea for him to be driving?
lifeextension.com/Vitamins-Supplements/item01937/Omega-3
also, read "the omega zone" by Dr. Barry sears. he has a section on using fish oil to treat NH patients.
Ask his doctor, or better, a geriatric psychiatrist, about meds for his agitation and anxiety.
I believe my mom developed Alzheimer's because of her sugar addiction. She went on a cruise with her sister and Reagan was in office. She kept his favorite snack beneath her pillow and munched on them all night. Anyone remember? Jelly Belly! Yuck! And when she had fruit for breakfast? Sugared it, even bananas. And tomatoes always laden with sugar. Don't even get me started on Fannie Farmer or See's.
The dont's are lifetime choices. I don't know if there has been research on changes to choices later in life and the impact on memory.