What You Need To Know About This Alzheimers "Look-Alike"

Did you know that there was a study released last year (I think) that stated that one major tragedy was (and still is) that too many seniors with low thyroids were assumed to be suffering from Alzheimer's because of their age group.

The thing is that they were not even being tested for hypothyroidism or borderline hypothyroidism. This a shame because this is a condition that can be so easily alleviated.

This ironically happened to someone in my family and was diagnosed only because I was reading the checklist from the website About.com to his wife. I was doing this because my thyroid had slowly gone out of whack again.

I had been doing things like: trailing off mid-sentence during every conversation and having to ask what we were talking about, never being able to leave the house without having to go back for something, leaving my purse on the front steps and driving away, not recognizing people that I knew...I couldn't even remember whether or not I'd flown home for my dad's birthday 2 weeks before (I had).

His wife dragged him off to the doctor's and poof! What a difference. Gone were the memory fog, confusion and forgetfulness! Now, if I had been 80, I would have gotten worse and worse and never received the help that I really needed.

This is not to say that all Alzheimer's patients really are suffering from low thyroidism (wouldn't that be wonderful) but historically, it's nothing short of a tragedy that so many lives have been wasted.”