memory slipping away

This is a curious tale and I wonder what the doctor said. My friend went to Italy and when she returned she was behaving oddly, with amnesiac episodes as well as psychotic behaviour (hearing voices, talking to herself, losing all sense of judgement, obsessing over clothes she had previously discarded, making strange violent threats to her mother etc). All this was completely out of character. Her doctor thought she might have been spiked with a drug as she was in young, mixed company (she was 25) but after hospital referral and a traumatic total breakdown it transpired that she was suffering from a latent brain chemistry disorder. She received the correct medical treatment and seems almost 100% fine now! It seems that there probably had been some drug misuse which had triggered the underlying condition but she had no recollection of the holiday so could not say what had happened.

I am not suggesting that your mother's condiditon is anything like this but it was the reference to the sudden amnesia that brought my friend's case to mind. I would think at 53 dementia would be the last thing I would think of.

Please let us know her diagnosis.

Any update on the doctor's visit? I'm curious to know if there was a resolution.

She went to the doctor and he said he didn't know whats wrong and she seemed fine, but he wants her to get an MRI. She seemed fine ever swince, but I guess the MRI will tell more.