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    • CommentAuthorKadee*
    • CommentTimeAug 14th 2008
     
    Since the Neurologist told me the PET Scan diagnosed my husband with Frontal Temporal Dementia, I have tried to read everything I could regarding this type. From the symptoms listed, my husband really doesn't fall into many. He seems to have more Alzheimer's symptoms.
    Has anyone else with a loved one with FTD found that the symptoms are different from the ones listed?
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    Kadee-my husband lost long term memory first. Rages became the norm. No gentle forgetting.
    • CommentAuthorAdmin
    • CommentTimeAug 14th 2008
     
    Kadee,

    There are three topics on this board that deal with FTD - Go to the top of the page, type in FTD, and hit "search". There will probably be information in those discussions that will help you.

    The frontal lobe controls language, impulse control, and behavior, so you will see outbursts of innappropriate language, rages, organizational problems, and problems with speech - not necessarily in that order. Short term memory is usally not affectd first, as it is in AD.

    joang
    • CommentAuthorKadee*
    • CommentTimeAug 14th 2008
     
    Thank you I will check out the topics.
    • CommentAuthorSunshyne
    • CommentTimeAug 15th 2008 edited
     
    Kadee,

    From my readings, there are three different types of FTD:

    Frontotemporal dementia, sometimes referred to as frontal variant FTD;

    Semantic dementia, sometimes referred to as temporal variant FTD; and

    Progressive nonfluent aphasia (PNFA).

    They have different sets of symptoms.

    See: Adam Boxer, John Trojanowski, Virginia Lee and Bruce Miller. 2004. Frontotemporal lobar degeneration.

    You can download the paper by pasting the following into your URL box:

    http://memory.ucsf.edu/PDFs/FTDarticle.pdf
    • CommentAuthorKadee*
    • CommentTimeSep 1st 2008
     
    Does anyone else's spouse who suffers from FTD or Alzheimer's, have terrible head pain? My husband seems to having these pains more frequently. When these pains hit, he has trouble walking. The worst ones are right at bedtime & first thing in the morning.
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      CommentAuthorStarling*
    • CommentTimeSep 1st 2008
     
    Kadee, my husband doesn't have FTD. He has a weird version of Vascular Dementia (heart realated instead of stroke related) and terrible head pain is one of his symptoms. And his doctor has given him drugs for the pain because Advil, etc. doesn't work.

    There is a thread about that somewhere around here, and a lot of the LOs suffer either bad headaches or head pressure.
    • CommentAuthorSunshyne
    • CommentTimeSep 1st 2008
     
    I found two threads:

    Complaining of Head being Hot

    feeling of pressure in head
    • CommentAuthorKadee*
    • CommentTimeSep 1st 2008
     
    Thanks Starling & Sunshyne. I went to the sites you suggested. It seems like it is just another part of dementia. He does want me to feel his head often, he thinks it is hot. However, it always feels normal to me. If it isn't bad enough that he can't remember anything, now he suffers from pain that he describes as someone sticking him in the head with an ice pick.

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