Excellent post Falconbird! I agree totally. 
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For an assessment as to how I was getting on with the new dose of Dosulepin after 3 months. I told him that I was feeling a bit better, but was concerned about my short term memory. He asked for some examples and I said , "Oh you know, the usual things, thinking of something that should go on the shopping list, by the time I get downstairs I can't remember what it was, also when doing a crossword I see 2 clues to which I know the answer, but by the time I have filled in the first one, I forget what the second one was"
I thought he would say it was an age thing, but he said he would take some blood and send it off for various tests, and please would I book an appointment for 2 weeks time and come in to run through some dementia tests 
I was a bit confuddled re the bloods,but sure enough it turns out that blood testing is quite common for this sort of thing.
I went back today, and he said all the tests done on the blood samples were fine, in fact my cholesterol had come down slightly.
He then went on to the other tests. Now,I had mentioned to a friend that I was having this done, and she said that her BIL had gone through them recently, and part of it was reciting the alphabet backwards I'll admit that I had practiced a bit, so was quite miffed when he didn't ask me to do it. (by the way, even with practice I still wasn't very good at a backward alphabet, and had thought of doing my party piece, which is singing "How much is that doggy in the window" backwards, try it, the words still fit the tune, if you know what I mean 
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Anyway, I thought I had done reasonably well, but at the end he said that he did think it ought to be investigated a bit more.
He is sending me for a scan. Yes, I'm a bit taken aback, but also thankful that I have such a good GP who is not only thorough, but also listens to his patients, rather than dismissing them out of hand as it seems so many others do.
I think the country has gone early onset Dementia mad. When you stop and think how much more we have to cope with than previous ageing generations it's amazing.
We have to remember a huge amount of numbers, passwords and so on. Learn skills for coping with mobile phones, Tablets, complicated TVs, cope with roads that are busier than they've ever been, do baby sitting which involves a lot of lifting heavy toddlers, getting baby seats into the back of cars etc.,
When my old mum did babysitting for me in the 70s and 80s in meant her sitting quietly with the newspaper eating a lunch I had prepared for her, while the children played around her on their best behaviour.
When we babysit most of us have to do everything the parents do, although personally my brain is often reeling and my back hurting.
Give us a break - early onset dementia maybe, it more likely to be body and brain fatigue from coping brilliantly in this crazy technological age.
Keep going my friends - we are doing a wonderful job. 
Don't you just luuurve the way things go off at a tangent/divert from topic/add other aspects,/become inane ramblings- Ooops, that's me! 
Some of you are as mad as a box of frogs, (in the nicest possible way!) some are serious, some contentious, some do the best sort of connected/rambling off point (that makes me think, Radio 4, Wednesday, around 9am ish, Libby Perves, Mid Week, very random group of guests, and listening to her trying desperately to make some sort of link between the speakers is sometimes hilarious, sometimes cringeworthy !)
Oh heck, if my brain scan patterns are anything like this post, I think I'm a lost cause!
to jingl
I love hellebores as much as the next Gransnetter, but coming back to the OP, according to Pulse, 'GPs record 25% hike in dementia cases since introduction of 'cash for diagnosis' scheme'
Just fancy that
. You daft bugger. no wonder your doc reckons you're bonkers
I love hellebores! Only sorry that they grow in shady spots where you can't really see them. We have the dark dusky pink ones, and same paler pink. They can be beautifully marked - the white ones with pink spots are my particular favourite. And they have such lovely stamens but, of course, none of this is obvious unless you get down on your knees and look up at them from ground level
Oh
I thought posters were trying to persuade me that they aren't boring!
They're OK , I can see a pink clump from where I am sitting and I really should be out there pulling up the numerous seedlings as one or two are enough .....
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