I have a Medicare Physical next week where they test my Cognition. I am really frightened, and may cancel it.
Gwen
Very Frightened
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Please >>go anyway<< Please
A lot of things are treatable/preventable/reducible.
You don't know today and you are worrying. Cancel the appointment, and you still won't know, and you will still be worrying .... and add on "I should have kept that appointment ..." Oh, and if something does go 'sour', you get to add "if only I had kept that appointment...".
Best thing I know of for healthy cognition is a healthy brain.
Feed you brain properly, make sure it gets enough blood and oxygen (*).
The very way best way I know of to 'do the feeding' is to start Now, start here for free: https://kickstart.pcrm.org/en. Do it for thirty days. Satisfaction guaranteed, or you can have your old health back. Did I say free? No gimmicks, no "weird stuff", you never have to pay them a single cent. Free.
If "there be dragons" in your life, naming them does help. The dragons may still be just as flame-y and just as hungry - but a lot of modern medicine knows how to turn a lot of dragons into dog-food.
(*) Getting you brain blood and oxygen - exercise. No need to join a gym, no need to "kill" yourself jogging. Go for walks, preferably in nature. Push yourself till you're breathing a bit hard. That'll be a good start.
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Take care. Let us know how it goes.
Start or continue a vitamin B12 supplement. The "cyano-" form seems better. If we go low on B12, our brains, well, rot. Do the B12, even if you blow off everything else I said here.
First of all... breathe
Just take a breath and relax.
Once you're feeling more calm, think about it a moment. Will taking the test change you in any way? Will it alter your health as it is? If the answer to these things is no, then what you're really scared of is the knowledge of what the tests will reveal... not the test itself. Ignorance of the facts won't save you from their reality, right? If I have breast cancer, will me not getting tested for it make it not kill me? Of course it won't.
So too will you canceling a test not save you from whatever prompted the tests to begin with.
Hugs and thoughts to you,
Roberta
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No need to worry
I had my annual medicare physical last month. The cognition test is quite simple and I think from reading your posts here you'll have no problem. There's a simple memory test (three words to remember for several minutes) and a clock face question. I think you are old enough to remember those. They'll need a new test when the current generation who've grown up with digital clocks get older.
Fibromyalgia Rheumatica
I was diagnosed with it in my mid 30s and after it was reduced with Prednisone, it was not much trouble. It appears as if I am having an episode of it now, possibly aggravated by all the Covid Vaccines?
We so need to steal ...
... that sad face "reaction" from Facebook ... :(
As for the fibromyalgia ...Please see everything in my above comment "Please go anyway please".
Medicare test
don't sweat it, luv. I have had to do it for several years. Waste of money IMHO. They just have you draw the hands on a clock to show a specified time, non digital of course. Analog only. They start the interview by giving you three words to remember for later in the conversation. and a couple of other similar bull crap simple things. Then they offer you several expensive test for abdominal aneurism, colon check, expensive bloodwork, etc. Medicare does pay for some, and refuses to pay for others, so have them check before saying yes. No sweat.