I don't know if you have any answers for this, but I have a question.
My father has had many strokes over the course of his life, as well as TIAs. He had his first stroke when he was 12 years old. He is partially paralyzed in his right side. However, his mind used to be in decent enough condition.
However, over the past decade, and especially the past five years, his mind has gotten a lot worse, as has his speech. To be fair, some of it is that he also has some hearing loss, so sometimes the reason he doesn't understand something is he didn't hear it well. But his mind has definitely gotten significantly worse.
He hasn't been diagnosed with dementia or Alzheimer's, and I don't know whether his decline is the result of stroke damage or something different. His decline did start after he had a particularly bad stroke nearly a decade ago, but it seems like he's gotten progressively worse since then rather than stabilizing. After his recovery from the stroke, he was not the same as before but he also was not as bad as now.
I think part of it might be due to the fact that he is very sedentary now. Before that bad stroke, even with his partial paralysis, he was able to do things like vegetable gardening and keeping active helped him. But now all he does is watch television all day, and he doesn't even want to sit in a chair. He prefers to stay in his hospital bed because he finds it more comfortable. He has a hard time walking and sometimes falls down. Whenever he gets physical therapy, he starts getting better in terms of walking and standing, but because of our insurance rules, he only ever gets a few visits from a physical therapist, and he always eventually gives up on doing the exercises once there is no therapist coming anymore.
He's on various medications to prevent strokes. Could these medications be causing his brain to decline? And if so, what would be the best solution considering that he needs them to avoid having more strokes?
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I don't know if you have any answers for this, but I have a question.
My father has had many strokes over the course of his life, as well as TIAs. He had his first stroke when he was 12 years old. He is partially paralyzed in his right side. However, his mind used to be in decent enough condition.
However, over the past decade, and especially the past five years, his mind has gotten a lot worse, as has his speech. To be fair, some of it is that he also has some hearing loss, so sometimes the reason he doesn't understand something is he didn't hear it well. But his mind has definitely gotten significantly worse.
He hasn't been diagnosed with dementia or Alzheimer's, and I don't know whether his decline is the result of stroke damage or something different. His decline did start after he had a particularly bad stroke nearly a decade ago, but it seems like he's gotten progressively worse since then rather than stabilizing. After his recovery from the stroke, he was not the same as before but he also was not as bad as now.
I think part of it might be due to the fact that he is very sedentary now. Before that bad stroke, even with his partial paralysis, he was able to do things like vegetable gardening and keeping active helped him. But now all he does is watch television all day, and he doesn't even want to sit in a chair. He prefers to stay in his hospital bed because he finds it more comfortable. He has a hard time walking and sometimes falls down. Whenever he gets physical therapy, he starts getting better in terms of walking and standing, but because of our insurance rules, he only ever gets a few visits from a physical therapist, and he always eventually gives up on doing the exercises once there is no therapist coming anymore.
He's on various medications to prevent strokes. Could these medications be causing his brain to decline? And if so, what would be the best solution considering that he needs them to avoid having more strokes?