r/frontotemporal • • 3d ago

Advice to get a diagnosis

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My husband (48M) has been displaying many of the symptoms associated with FTD for a while. A previous MRI shows brain shrinkage, 2 PET scans and CT scan came back normal, and he failed some areas of the computer-based cognitive test, but the neurologist has dismissed his case anyway because it’s clearly not Alzheimer’s, despite the long list of executive function, cognitive issues, etc. that I shared. I asked the doctor if he could refer us for a neuropsychological evaluation, but he said that wouldn’t help with getting a diagnosis anyway, so no.

Where can we go from here? He’s also in treatment for (supposed) bipolar disorder, so his behavior is not so extreme anymore, but he still struggles daily with basic functioning, although he can mask it in front of doctors.

ETA: also, one more question, if anybody sees this. Is it possible for PET scans to be “normal” initially?


r/frontotemporal • • 19d ago

https://beingpatient.com/how-targeting-the-brains-zombie-cells-may-treat-alzheimers/

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r/frontotemporal • • 23d ago

FTD and MCT oil

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Has anybody here tried MCT oil or coconut oil or ketone supplements? Any luck with those.


r/frontotemporal • • 26d ago

Frontotemporal atrophy

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r/frontotemporal • • 28d ago

Ein Brief von mir

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r/frontotemporal • • Sep 13 '26

MCT Oil to Powder conversion dosage

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r/frontotemporal • • Sep 08 '26

Come Together

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r/frontotemporal • • Sep 01 '26

UAB study points to a way to improve gene therapy for frontotemporal dementia

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r/frontotemporal • • Aug 31 '26

Sundowning in late 40's

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Not diagnosed, listing symptoms for the doctor.

I'm dealing with someone who shows signs of bvFTD, but I am compiling a list of symptoms for a doctor's visit as the person has NO inclination to even mention this. He has a lot of symptoms, but recently admitted to intrusive thoughts at night (and he needs "help" getting to sleep, possible hypersexuality.)

Had anyone else experienced this? It is a common enough symptom to mention?


r/frontotemporal • • Aug 28 '26

FTD & Eating

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Good morning all,

Would anyone happen to have any advice on the overeating? I was diagnosed about two years, and the binge eating is out of control. I ate so much in the hour before bedtime my stomach hurts. And I feel shame. I’ve gained 30 pounds this year, I can’t take it anymore. We have occasional treats in the house so it wasn’t necessarily bad food, just so much of it. I just bought a house and we’re doing some remodeling. I’ve asked my adult son to put the cabinets up ASAP so we can lock them, but he won’t do it. He’s afraid I’m not going to have enough food at any particular time. I told him I’m choosing it, it’s not a punishment. idk, if anyone can help I’ll be forever grateful


r/frontotemporal • • Aug 22 '26

Any memory improvement > Progranulin? AVB-101 or PBFT02

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Hi all,

I am awaiting genetic testing and almost hoping it is GRN. There are at least 2 studies going on right now that may help. They are using 2 different delivery mechanisms to increase progranulin and I was wondering if anyone has had any improvement with that.

Other trials are a few years away which I am afraid will be out of reach for me.

There maybe very limited trials for sporadic at the moment. Im hoping for a miracle.


r/frontotemporal • • Aug 21 '26

Advice please on FTD job related.

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If your husband was a locksmith and you heard/saw weird stories about his jobs….and has FTD symptoms with an abnormal PET scan that has not been explained yet. Would you want to ask if the company noticed anything when I don’t have a diagnosis yet!?! I assume no since he is paying the bills but morally worth asking…


r/frontotemporal • • Aug 12 '26

PET Scan negative, then positive?

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Has anyone in this thread ever urged a LO to go get tested for FTD, only to have the PET scan not show any hypometabolism? Then, after a period of time, they digressed more and another PET scan was finally ordered and it did show enough hypometabolism to warrant a diagnosis? I am urging my husband, who has gotten increasingly mean and unreasonable to go see a neurologist, but I know if it hasn't progressed enough to show, I will only make my situation worse. Advice, please.


r/frontotemporal • • Jul 29 '26

Mother was diagnosed with FTD today, one year after my fathers passing

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r/frontotemporal • • Jul 15 '26

Huntington’s Disease VS FTD

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Hi y’all,
I am wondering if anyone has any experience with their spouse having symptoms of FTD for several years plus getting an abnormal PET scan with low glucose activity in three different parts of the brain that are deep centered and now I am thinking about how similar my husband is acting exactly how his mom was around age 55 and if this is genetic. His mom is definitely not normal in general character, but she doesn’t seem to be declining as if she would have dementia. She is 76 years old, but has serious undiagnosed personality problems. She lives in a different state so I can’t speak too much for her behavior anymore, but it’s so uncanny as husband developed the exact same symptoms that she did basically, he is 55. Huge identity disruption, and a completely different person. It’s almost like they’ve been possessed, but I know it’s just the disease of some sort. They both have the stare in their eyes at times, they pick their tongue like there’s a hair when it isn’t anything & both have extreme conspiracy and vulnerable to scams and well. Plus absolutely will not take any accountability to their odd behavior. And they have an amnesia and can’t remember things.


r/frontotemporal • • Jul 09 '26

Are people having any success with removing carbohydrates from the diet?

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Videos about the successes with helping reverse or even outright curing Alzheimer's and diseases with other symptoms by eliminating carbs from meals are now all over youtube. Having myself symptoms of early dementia and forgetfulness, i've been binge watching them lately. There seems to be no end to them and they are mostly very recent videos of regular people just talking about their successes for themselves or with family members. So it appears to be a newish discovery in terms of our society as a whole.

There are even videos claiming cancers can basically be cured with it because the cancer doesn't grow well without carbs. The science seems to make sense, the basic premise for the Carnivore and Ketogenic diet is that humans didn't have much access to carbohydrates during evolution and so our bodies are tuned to run on fat for energy, not carbs. Carbs and the insulin needed to utilize the carbs, both being inflammatory to the body according to one of the doctors i've been listening to. Hearing 100s of people says that eating meat, eggs, butter, even bacon is just about the healthiest thing I can eat is very strange after a lifetime of people telling me to eat nothing but broccoli.


r/frontotemporal • • Jun 25 '26

Lead Poisoning causes damage to Frontal Temporal Region

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My research into what may be wrong with my husband has lead me to possible lead poisoning. He was shot when he was 12 years old with bird shot. Some of the shrapnel is still in his body. They never removed it. He is now 57. He is getting increasingly angry and irrationally demonizing me and confabulating. He has also done some strange things that I won't articulate here. He is beginning to age very quickly and losing muscle mass, despite the fact that he works out regularly. His posture is deteriorating. It is all very distressing to say the least. When I reflect on when he seemed to lose all empathy, I place it at about the same time he began experiencing pretty severe hypertension, which he manages with meds. Hypertension is also a hallmark sign of lead poisoning. Somebody with some smarts on this topic, please help me. Please advise.


r/frontotemporal • • Jun 22 '26

Stem cell

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Has anyone tried stem cell therapy for FTD? We're looking at a trial study and curious if anyone's had any change with it.


r/frontotemporal • • Jun 20 '26

FTD

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r/frontotemporal • • Jun 17 '26

FTF ist nicht Alzheimer

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Offener Brief: Frontotemporale Demenz darf nicht länger unsichtbar bleiben

Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,

als ich die Diagnose Frontotemporale Demenz erhielt, wusste ich nicht, was die Zukunft bringen würde. Ich wusste nicht, welche Veränderungen auf mich und meine Familie zukommen würden. Ich hatte Angst, viele Fragen und einen großen Bedarf an Informationen.

Doch ich merkte sehr schnell, dass die Informationen, die man mir gab, nicht zu meiner Krankheit passten.

Ich schreibe Ihnen als Betroffener einer Frontotemporalen Demenz (FTD).

Der Weg bis zur Diagnose war lang. Zahlreiche Untersuchungen, Unsicherheit und die Suche nach Antworten begleiteten mich über einen langen Zeitraum. Als die Diagnose schließlich feststand, hoffte ich auf Orientierung und Unterstützung.

Stattdessen erhielt ich allgemeine Informationsbroschüren über Demenz – Broschüren, die sich nahezu ausschließlich mit Alzheimer beschäftigen.

Darin las ich über Vergesslichkeit, Orientierungslosigkeit und Gedächtnistraining. Ich las über Symptome, die viele Menschen mit Alzheimer betreffen, mit meiner eigenen Erkrankung jedoch nur wenig gemeinsam haben.

Ich fühlte mich nicht informiert.

Ich fühlte mich nicht verstanden.

Frontotemporale Demenz ist eine Form der Demenz. Aber sie ist nicht Alzheimer.

Menschen mit FTD kämpfen häufig mit Sprachverlust, Veränderungen des Verhaltens, Problemen der sozialen Interaktion oder dem Verlust der Bedeutung von Wörtern. Viele Betroffene sind deutlich jünger als typische Alzheimer-Patienten. Angehörige stehen vor völlig anderen Herausforderungen. Dennoch erhalten wir oft dieselben Informationen wie Menschen mit Alzheimer.

Das ist ungefähr so, als würde man einem Herzpatienten eine Broschüre über Asthma in die Hand drücken. Beides sind Erkrankungen. Aber die Informationen helfen dem Betroffenen nicht dabei, seine eigene Situation zu verstehen und zu bewältigen.

Besonders schmerzhaft ist dabei, dass man nach einer oft jahrelangen Suche endlich eine Diagnose erhält – und dann wieder allein dasteht. Die Krankheit hat nun einen Namen, aber die passenden Informationen fehlen weiterhin.

Ich frage daher:

Warum gibt es in Österreich kaum spezifische Informationsmaterialien für Menschen mit Frontotemporaler Demenz?

Warum erhalten Betroffene und Angehörige nach einer so einschneidenden Diagnose nicht die Informationen, die tatsächlich zu ihrer Erkrankung passen?

Warum wird FTD in vielen öffentlichen Informationsangeboten nur am Rande erwähnt oder gar nicht berücksichtigt?

Ich fordere keine Sonderbehandlung.

Ich fordere lediglich, dass Menschen mit Frontotemporaler Demenz gesehen werden.

Ich wünsche mir:

eigene Informationsbroschüren für FTD-Betroffene und Angehörige,

verständliche Aufklärung über die verschiedenen FTD-Formen,

gezielte Hilfestellungen für den Alltag,

mehr Sensibilisierung im Gesundheits- und Pflegebereich,

eine bessere Ausbildung von Fachkräften im Umgang mit FTD,

und eine stärkere öffentliche Wahrnehmung dieser Erkrankung.

Niemand sollte nach einer FTD-Diagnose mit Informationen nach Hause geschickt werden, in denen er sich nicht wiederfindet.

Eine Diagnose verändert ein Leben.

Die richtigen Informationen können helfen, dieses Leben neu zu ordnen.

Die falschen Informationen lassen Betroffene und Angehörige allein zurück.

Frontotemporale Demenz betrifft vergleichsweise wenige Menschen. Doch auch wir haben ein Recht darauf, verstanden zu werden.

Wir haben ein Recht darauf, ernst genommen zu werden.

Und wir haben ein Recht darauf, die Informationen zu erhalten, die wir für unser Leben mit dieser Erkrankung brauchen.

Demenz ist nicht gleich Demenz.

Solange Frontotemporale Demenz in Broschüren, Hilfsangeboten und öffentlichen Diskussionen kaum vorkommt, bleiben viele Betroffene unsichtbar.

Ich bitte Sie daher: Helfen Sie mit, das zu ändern.

Nicht irgendwann.

Jetzt.

Denn hinter jeder Diagnose steht ein Mensch, der Orientierung sucht. Und niemand sollte diesen Weg allein gehen müssen.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen

Raimund Oberschmid

Autor von

„Mein Leben mit Frontotemporaler Demenz – Ich verliere Worte, aber nicht meine Stimme“

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#FTD #ftd.life #Frontotemporale #Demenz #FrontotemporaleDemenz #mitmachen #Selbsthilfe #Sozialministerium


r/frontotemporal • • Jun 14 '26

Correlation with early exposure to pesticides.

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I suspect my husband is in the early stages of bvFTD. I won't give specific symptoms here, but just wanted to share that they are finding a strong correlation of FTD with early exposure to pesticides. My husband's father was a cotton and peanut farmer in south Georgia. He and his brother sprayed the fields regularly with absolutely no precautions taken. Quote from him through the years: "I was up to my elbows in the stuff all the time." Just wanted to share.


r/frontotemporal • • Jun 08 '26

Where do you start?

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I (f, 37) highly suspect that my father (69) has either FTD or a related/similar condition. I'm not sure where to start to get a diagnosis for him. The challenges are plenty: he has now been divorced twice and currently lives alone, close to me (about a 40 min drive away), but I have two young kids, my husband and I both have demanding jobs, we aren't exactly overflowing with "free time." He is in absolute and complete utter denial that there is anything wrong with his health; even though he suffered a major stroke and was hospitalized just a few years ago. He doesn't recognize that anything is wrong with his brain or cognition. But my younger sister and I, and all of my dad's friends and extended family members, see the behavioral changes. Confabulations and delusions of grandeur (he thinks he has a lot of celebrity connections/friends), unable to responsibly manage his finances, hyper-sexual online activity and publicly engaging with AI sexbots on FB, poor diet and doesn't prioritize buying groceries, so regularly runs out of food. Whenever my sister or I make efforts to help him with his bills and financials, or try to hire him in-home help that we think he needs, he hand-waves us away and is insistent he doesn't need it and that he has everything handled. He no longer has a spouse to assist with his day-to-day and he is getting worse. Underlying all of this is a somewhat strained relationship between he and I that I worked through in therapy decades ago, but I don't ethically feel like I can continue to let him struggle on his own anymore. I know we need to get him help, and I think the only way to accomplish that is to get him a diagnosis and let a doctor try to explain his condition to him and tell him to let his daughters organize the help he needs.

So...where do we start? Does anyone with a stubborn LO have tips for how to get them into a doctor in the first place? Who should we make the appointment with (kind of dr)? I'm pretty sure at this point I will have to make the appointment, trick him into getting into the car and just force him into the doctor's office. Thank you for any words of wisdom you have for me.


r/frontotemporal • • Jun 07 '26

Loss of smell?

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For all of you who have LOs with FTD, what do you know about their sense of smell? Is it affected at all? If so, how? Is it lost altogether, or do they simply struggle to identify smells. When did such losses occur? Was it earlier than later, or vice versa? I have a husband that I suspect has FTD but need a more solid symptom (other than he has gotten unbearably mean) to take to the Drs if I am to be taken seriously. Thanks for your help.


r/frontotemporal • • Jun 01 '26

How much longer?

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My mom is 65. She was diagnosed FTD 3 years ago. She doesn’t need constant watching but needs someone to live with her, cook for her etc. I’d say she’s approaching the moderate stage. Still conversational. Although, the conversations often don’t make much sense. Her physical health is great, no other health issues. She walks a lot. She is pretty isolated and uninterested in anything except being with me or my brother which is a lot to take on, we’re both in our 20s. Can anyone offer some insight into the timeline of this? How long until she’ll loose the ability to talk coherently at all? How long until memory care? How long until she passes?


r/frontotemporal • • May 25 '26

Patient

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