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Is there a big change at age 70?

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Itsgotmethinking · 23/04/2024 21:42

Mum almost 71, have noticed a change in her quite recently. She’s always been quite dizzy, she’s happy to admit this, but recently I’m noticing different things and feel a bit worried. She just doesn’t seem as with it at all, we were talking today for quite a while about seeing the sunset, it got quite confusing and then it turned out she meant the moon and had kept saying sunset not moon. She was also saying how it was one hour before to be at the airport, when she’s known for years it’s two hours. My sister mentioned it to me too.
My mum still gets some menopause symptoms but doesn’t take full hrt due to having had breast cancer, she said she often gets a foggy head, could it be just this? She seems aware of it, but I don’t want to highlight it and worry/embarrass her.
My dad is 75 and not like this at all, should I be worried 😔

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MsVictoria · 23/04/2024 22:14

My mum is 76 and thinks it is cute/adorable to say wrong words. Or words she's made up. She is trying to act like my grandma, who was adorable, but my mum isn't and can't pull it off. A possibly.

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Itsgotmethinking · 23/04/2024 22:13

@patchworkpal Sorry, I mean she’s always been dizzy as in a bit ditsy. She does say she gets a foggy head though, but again, that’s when she stops the hrt

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ghostyslovesheets · 23/04/2024 22:10

Worth getting her checked out with her GP- could be b12,thyroid lots of things cause brain fog

My mum is 78 and still mentally sharp but physically slowing down which she finds very frustrating

patchworkpal · 23/04/2024 22:04

If she's getting dizzy then yeah she needs to speak to a doctor if she hasn't already

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Itsgotmethinking · 23/04/2024 22:01

Thanks everyone, she went to the Drs about the occasional hot sweats a while ago and it’s hormonal, it all starts again when she stops taking the hrt. I’m not concerned about that, it’s the dizziness/mixing things up

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Purplebunnie · 23/04/2024 21:59

I would be concerned about the hot flushes. My mom had night sweats into her 80's and then got bowel cancer, MacMillan nurse said the sweats were part of the cancer,

Perhaps she should see her GP about the ongoing hot flushes

I sailed through my menopause so have no experience of night sweats or hot flushes so don't know the difference

CadyEastman · 23/04/2024 21:58

Lots of my family have lived far beyond 70, just had a few turn 90. My DM has been diagnosed with Vascular Dementia but she's 88.

I would urge her to go to the GP, especially if the hot flushes are at night as night swears could be a sign of certain illnesses.

Lizzbear · 23/04/2024 21:57

My mum is nearly 77 and takes occasional hrt tablets.
She's definitely always been dizzy, as am I, but my sister and I have noticed she isn't as sharp, and often uses the wrong word for something.
I think it's natural ageing and am not unduly worried. I think if it got much worse I would, but if it stays as it is, I'd just put it down to age.

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Itsgotmethinking · 23/04/2024 21:50

Could it just be the natural loss of some sharpness with ageing?

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Itsgotmethinking · 23/04/2024 21:49

@cheeseandketchupsandwich I know, I’ve said that to her, she says without occasional hrt (she doesn’t take it daily) she gets hot flushes again, low mood, a foggier head and so on

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cheeseandketchupsandwich · 23/04/2024 21:45

I had no idea you could still get menopause symptoms at that age.

Would she be willing to see her GP to discuss?

I wouldn't be worried but I would like to get it checked were this my mum.

Good luck x