Is It a Good Idea to Get Tested?

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4.4 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Catherine is debating about whether to pursue genetic testing to determine if she's carrying markers of the disease that killed her mother. Email questions or comments: [email protected] - Participate on the radio program: call 1-800-Dr-Laura / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment https://www.drlaura.com/make-an-appointment.

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0:00.0	Thanks for listening to my call of the day podcast. You can hear my live radio program Monday through Friday from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern time on serious XM.
0:10.0	I'm 11. Catherine, welcome to the program.
0:14.0	Hi, Dr. Laura. I so appreciate you taking my call. I you.
0:19.0	I spoke with you years ago about the love I had with my son, but now this is a question I have for me personally and I was listening to this morning.
0:28.0	And I thought maybe Dr. Laura could give me some insight.
0:33.0	My mom passed away last March of frontal lobe dementia. And it was a very long drawn out 10 year journey in the last two years, which is super difficult.
0:45.0	And recently I went to a clinic in Phoenix to help my dad kind of with something similar related brain, you know, brain related dementia, but they offered to do some genetic testing for my sister and myself.
1:04.0	And my question I guess is I went ahead into the blood draw.
1:07.0	Be be sure you tell me anymore. Did they say that if you had a certain marker or so or markers that it was 100% sure you'd have the disease.
1:20.0	No, they did not say that. They just said it indicates you could have it or could develop it. Right. So I still still it's a possibility.
1:30.0	Yes, but not stronger. If you don't have the marker. Yeah, exactly got it.
1:36.0	Okay, that was important for you to think about for a moment.
1:40.0	Okay, so you took blood and.
1:43.0	And then I was also told if I at any point changed my mind and didn't want to know the results, I could opt to call them and say.
1:56.0	And I had extreme anxiety since I've done it and my husband has said.
2:03.0	I don't think you should want to know.
2:06.0	Because we can all we're all going to have something.
2:10.0	And I don't want you to perseverate now tell whenever if this happens to be the case because he doesn't want.
2:18.0	Is that a reasonable assessment of your personality that it would change your life dramatically your mental state what you would do not do.
2:29.0	If you knew something was positive. Is he correct in making that assumption that you would not handle it well.
2:36.0	I wish it wasn't true.
2:45.0	I don't know.
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