Living with an Undiagnosed ConditionThis section is a place to share stories about Living with an Undiagnosed Condition. Below are entries of those who have already shared their stories. We hope that you find their experiences helpful to your own situation. You may also Help others by sharing your story. To quickly access health information from your website's browser, download Neurological symptoms with no diagnosis My sister, 54, was recently hospitalized for 2-1/2 weeks on a psychiatric ward for depression The doctors discovered that, while she was depressed, she had a neurological problem that they could not diagnose. A neurologist saw her and did a brain MRI which he said was negative. Her symptoms are, to me, very strange. She cannot button her clothes, she has severe short-term memory loss, she has trouble dressing herself. When I ask her to get me something from, say, a desk, she will go to the end table instead and look in there. If I try to show her how to button her blouse by demonstrating on my own blouse, she will place her hands in a different location on her blouse. She cannot follow even simple instructions. These symptoms also change and are not always present. Sometimes she can put her clothes on okay, except for buttons which are always a challenge. We were told she did not have Alzheimer’s. She cannot problem solve. We are all so very frustrated and discouraged. She has to live with one or another of us. She is on Lamictal, Xanax, Excelon, and Paxil. She was on Atacand for her BP but she wasn’t eating or drinking and went into renal failure while inpatient and they took her off that. Comments
November 2007
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