This educational video focuses on those with Fibromyalgia… but.. it can apply to some degree to just about any chronic disease state as it causing cognitive issues directly or pt having to deal with their disease issues. When some disease states interact with aging.. it can only compound the problems.
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Thanks Steve….I’ll look into it!!
Oh talk about a light bulb going off!! I have had migraines for many years. Most have treated with abortive therapy which worked 95% of the time. Lately the frequency has increased and I now have a neurologist who has started preventative and changed my treatment protocol (which doesn’t include opiates) . My NEW symptom during or right after is like in the video during the conversation demo I may struggle finding a word for an object.Yes talk about frustrating. My really severe migraines in the past, I have had ‘word jumble’ where no one could understand anything I said . I would currently describe my post migraine feeling ‘a fog’ or a ‘hangover’
Here is a new device recently approved by the FDA for migraine http://www.cefaly.ca/#whatiscefaly
Thanks for this, Steve. And you are right…it is not just fibromyalgia that can cause this, and it can be profound. When I hear some doctors talk about how opiates have caused their elderly patients cognitive loss, I often wonder if the situation has not been oversimplified. It could be prescription drugs not monitored and prescribed carefully enough, but it could also be the combination of overwhelming pain, with added distress from concurrent disease processes in the elderly. The good news is – and I personally can attest to this — it is reversible.