My husband is almost 3 years into his diagnosis of AD, and on this last Tuesday morning the weirdest thing happened and I don't know what to make of it. For some time now he has been having mild "vocalizations" which I can only characterize as a sudden, loud grunt kind of sound. He isn't aware that he is doing this. On Tuesday we were making the bed and suddenly he did this grunt, only really loudly this time and then he fell backwards. He fell against a wall, but he would have hit the ground if the wall wasn't there. Then he did it again. Needless to say I was totally freaked out. We went to the doctor, not his regular; we couldn't get in to see him, but a doctor at the same facility, and he has no idea what might be causing this. Have any of you experienced anything like this? Thanks for any info anyone might have.
I have brought to the top a discussion on loud vocalizations for you. It may not be exactly what your dh is experiencing, but I believe it's the same idea. It is part of the disease. Try to talk to your regular neurologist and see if he can prescribe something to calm him, which may reduce the vocals.
Sorry your doctor couldn't help solve the problem. My dh use to say, "why go to a doctor they are just making educated guesses, that is why they send you for all those tests because they really don't know as much as you think they know."
My dh's neuro doesn't know why he sleeps 18 to 20 hours a day. And, now my dh has started limping from time to time. Maybe only like 10 to 20 steps. I ask him if his leg is hurting and why are you limping? He always says he didn't know he was limping.
So many physical things that go wrong and no one seems to have the anwer.