- Re What do I do?

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Hi

Welcome to this group. I live in New Zealand, so cannot help with advice as to

who to see for an accurate diagnosis, but I would suggest a neurgologist or a

geriatric physician or even a psychiatrist.

If your mother in law does indeed have LBD, and for all of your sakes, I hope

it's not, a really good book that will help you help her is below. I would

thoroughly recommend it. On the cover it has this quote " A family guide to

caring for persons with Alzheimer Disease, and related dementing illnesses, and

memory loss in later life " . I look after my mother who was dx with LBD a year

ago, and have found this book invaluable.

The 36-Hour Day

by L. Mace and V. Rabins

published by The s Hopkins University Press

ISBN 0-446-61041-0

Another good resource is the files put together for a conference of caring for

the elderly. These papers can be found on the yahoo group's website. The link

is below.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LBDcaregivers/files/CCC%20Papers/

Good luck in your endeavours.

What do I do?

My mother-in-law is having what I believe to be symptoms of LBS but, the

doctors are still running tests. Meanwhile she can't even carry on a normal

conversation because she is so distracted with all of her new " friends " . She's

not sleeping because they get into bed with her. She's so nervous and axcious

all of the time it's hard to know what's going on. She says her friends don't

talk at all. They just smile. I've read that this is symptomatic of LBS. She and

her husband live about an hour and a half away from us and she doesn't want us

to worry. We live in Dallas, TX. Does anyone know of a specialist on LBS that I

can send her to for evaluation or any other suggestions? I feel so lost, she's

my best friend.....

MLH.