Article in WDDTY (What Doctors Don't Tell You).

[valerie]

This is an article in WDDTY, I wonder how many of these are thyroid patients:

70 per cent of Alzheimer’s patients are wrongly diagnosed

11 September 2013

Up to 70 per cent of elderly people in the UK and the US are being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s when they don’t have the disease at all. They are given powerful drugs—including ‘chemical coshes’ to sedate them—when all they have is mild memory loss which can happen with age, an expert panel warns. Around 65 per cent of people aged over 80 will be diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in a new drive in the UK and the US to screen the elderly. But only between five and 15 per cent of people with mild cognitive impairment, such as memory loss, will ever develop Alzheimer’s. The rest will never suffer from the disease, despite the prognosis, and they may even improve, say specialists in the UK and Australia. A similar picture is emerging for people labelled as having dementia. Around 25 per cent will never see their mild cognitive problems develop into full dementia. Despite this, virtually everyone displaying any mild cognitive problem, such as memory loss, will be given powerful drugs to treat a non-existent problem—and may suffer cognitive decline as a result of the medication. (Source: British Medical Journal, 2013; 347: f5125).

[lynmynott Partner Thyroid UK]

B12 may well play a part too! Lyn

[Angel_of_the_North in reply to lynmynott]

My dad was diagnosed with dementia then later they found he had PA (no intrinsic factor). Too late by then, the nerve damage and so on had been done and he was really away with fairies (so of course the doc had been right all along ...).

[lynmynott Partner Thyroid UK in reply to Angel_of_the_North]

This makes me REALLY angry! Make sure you keep an eye on your own 12 levels!

[valerie in reply to Angel_of_the_North]

love the phrase "away with the fairies", perhaps he met up with my dad who was also "away with the fairies"!

[RedApple Administrator]

An item in the news yesterday seems relevant to mention here, bearing in mind that insulin is a hormone too.

Diabetes drug may reverse Alzheimer's and enters major clinical trial

Published 11 September 2013

A commonly prescribed diabetes drug could reverse memory loss and the build-up of plaques on the brain linked to Alzheimer's, according to Alzheimer's Society funded research.

The research is published today (Wednesday 11 September) in Neuropharmacology.

Results from the study, led by Professor Christian Hölscher at Lancaster University, show that liraglutide might be able to reverse some of the damage caused by Alzheimer's disease in the later stages of the condition.

alzheimers.org.uk/site/scri...