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   Philip Weiss (Phil in SF) (kingrat@sfba.social)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Aug-2025 10:43:12 JST Philip Weiss (Phil in SF)

   I've watched everyone in the generation before me go through a cognitive decline and memory issues and my doctors always tell me I'm worrying about nothing when I ask for a referral for early onset Alzheimers. I *KNOW* I'm basically fine right now, but I want to get baseline tests because I have trouble remembering nouns and I know what's coming for me.

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     Philip Weiss (Phil in SF) (kingrat@sfba.social)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Aug-2025 10:48:36 JST Philip Weiss (Phil in SF)

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     Doctors have treated my reports of physical symptoms seriously, and that's how I caught my cancer early. But despite bringing this up with three or four different GPs, I've never gotten the right referral. Last one referred me to a psychologist because she thought maybe I'm just stressed.

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     Philip Weiss (Phil in SF) (kingrat@sfba.social)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Aug-2025 10:48:51 JST Philip Weiss (Phil in SF)

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     I bring this up because a family member who is going through some cognitive decline CCed me on a bunch of emails today. I see where I'm headed.

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     Philip Weiss (Phil in SF) (kingrat@sfba.social)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Aug-2025 23:00:03 JST Philip Weiss (Phil in SF)

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     • panolopy

     @panolopy i hadn't seen it. I'm not really qualified to have an opinion about it tho. I'd want to know if Shingrix can have the same effect or just live attentuated vaccines.

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     panolopy (panolopy@ohai.social)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Aug-2025 23:00:04 JST panolopy

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     @kingrat I'm curious if you've seen this, and what your thoughts are.

     https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2025/03/shingles-vaccination-dementia.html