Doglady
Distinguished member
- Joined
- Aug 6, 2018
- Messages
- 218
- Reason
- PALS
- Diagnosis
- 04/2018
- Country
- US
- State
- MN
- City
- Minneapolis
Well, I’ve read a lot on this topic here today and done a search to see if my questions have already been answered. Also went to some of the links and searched a bit - no luck.
So, I’ve been diagnosed with ALS for 1 1/2 years and don’t feel (or hear from others) that I have FTD. Can I stop worrying that I’ll still develop that too?
Also my sister has had a serious behavioral change and over the past 10 years become increasingly very angry, obsessive/ compulsive, isolated and hostile. She lives alone and her one child has not lived in the area for several years. She has no friends, won’t communicate with me and speaks about me with great hostility to her daughter (our parents and only other sister have all passed away) - she is also always angry and at odds with her daughter (who she previously was very close to).
We’ve thought she had some kind of mental illness but I’ve just realized since I have ALS and she’s acting this way that she may have FTD. She’s currently 70 years old. I can’t imagine how anyone could get her to see a doctor right now. They would have to tie her up and carry her. Does this seem like FTD? What happens to people with untreated FTD who are basically on their own?
So, I’ve been diagnosed with ALS for 1 1/2 years and don’t feel (or hear from others) that I have FTD. Can I stop worrying that I’ll still develop that too?
Also my sister has had a serious behavioral change and over the past 10 years become increasingly very angry, obsessive/ compulsive, isolated and hostile. She lives alone and her one child has not lived in the area for several years. She has no friends, won’t communicate with me and speaks about me with great hostility to her daughter (our parents and only other sister have all passed away) - she is also always angry and at odds with her daughter (who she previously was very close to).
We’ve thought she had some kind of mental illness but I’ve just realized since I have ALS and she’s acting this way that she may have FTD. She’s currently 70 years old. I can’t imagine how anyone could get her to see a doctor right now. They would have to tie her up and carry her. Does this seem like FTD? What happens to people with untreated FTD who are basically on their own?