Undiagnosed Conditions

[livingwith]

My sister, 54, was recently hospitalized for 2-1/2 weeks on a psychiatric ward for depression The doctors discovered that, while she was depressed, she had a neurological problem that they could not diagnose. A neurologist saw her and did a brain MRI which he said was negative. Her symptoms are, to me, very strange. She cannot button her clothes, she has severe short-term memory loss, she has trouble dressing herself. When I ask her to get me something from, say, a desk, she will go to the end ...Read the full article

[SissyMom]

Did the strange symptoms begin before or after she was admitted to the ward? I discoverd in the late 1980's that any medication that had a warning of not taking if you were taking an AMOI inhibitor would cause me to not be able to do anything involving numbers. I couldn't dial a phone, count, add & subract even. If a sentence (I made) contained a phrase such as 3 or 4 people came to dinner, as soon as I got it out of my mouth I couldn't remember if it 2 or 3, or 3 or 4, or 4 or 5. You could tell me a phone number, I could repeat it to you and write it down, then 2 hours later when I went to dial it, I would remember the number but would not have one single number on the paper I wrote it on. The meds, may be doing this if the symptoms began after she was admitted. I never have this problem except when I take some meds.