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Mom was diagnosed with Vascular dementia about a year ago. She has gone through some really bad days and some good days. This sounds stupid but how far between "spells" does this vascular dementia go. She is fine for weeks and seems to be back to her old self and then boom she hallucinates or gets really confused. Is anyone else going through this?

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Do not have the anxiety meds. It can take a konth or kore to work.

Dementia does not come and go. Its like being pregnant there is no "being a little pregnant." You are going to just go with the flow and chalk it all up to the desease. I had a hard time adjusting because therevis no rhyme or reason to Dementia. Its too unpredictable. I like order. I like knowing whats going to happen next.
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JoAnn29 Jun 15, 2024
"Do not have" is suppose to say "do not stop"
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Tammy,
It varies patient to patient.
There is no norm.
I can tell you that in general any anxiety or agitation does bring on more "spells".

Many of us have wondered how you are doing. I believe you mother was scheduled a week or so to enter her care center and you were wondering about furniture placement.
Good to hear from you; where is everything at with her transfer to her new living quarters?
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Rogerwyatt7890 Jun 15, 2024
Alva: She is still trying to adjust. I sent you a PM. Getting her there was horrible and we had to make up a fib. I just wondered about vascular because I keep hearing the life span is only 5 years and with Alzheimer's it is much longer. Mom's doc gave her antianxiety meds but it does not seem to help much. I might just stop it???? I feel so guilty because she can be so sweet and "normal" for weeks and then all of a sudden have a flare so to speak. When I first brought her home from the hospital she was totally out of it and delusional. Now she eats well and is taken care of (better than I could have continued to do). Maybe that is why she just has flares now and then? When I say "flare" well the other night (actually right before she went to MC) she thought I was a little boy in the bedroom that ran away from home and needed to call his mother. The next day she was fine. I really need to stop feeling guilty.
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Hi Tammy, my mom, is undiagnosed, I suspect vascular. Anyways when she is in pain, or her anxiety is up for any reason, she seems a lot more off. Tells stories and stuff, as for seeing things no.

So figure out on her bad times, what's going on in her body or life that could be contributing to it
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Rogerwyatt7890 Jun 15, 2024
How long has your mother had vascular? Mom had a CVA and TIA so that is why she was diagnosed with vascular.
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