Has anyone here had direct, or indirect experience with this medication for memory problems?

My guess 7.

i don’t remember.

sarahs mum said:

i don’t remember.

Your the first sarahs mum, only 6 to go

no. 6

what was the question?

Yes Bob. My mother took Aricept and it was like a bloody miracle drug.

Maybe it’s what I need…I keep forgetting stuff…like sending the eggs to whatsername….

morrie said:

Yes Bob. My mother took Aricept and it was like a bloody miracle drug.

thanks morrie, do you have to take it for the rest of your life?

I don’t pretend to know the field of application of this drug, but let me describe what I observed. Mum had Parkinson’s disease, or something very similar. Needed Parkinson’s drugs to be able to move. But they built up the dose way too quickly for someone of her size and she slipped into a world of complete halluciinations. So they put her in hospital and withdrew all drugs. She curled up like a foetus and was completely off the planet. At this stage, I realise in retrospect, they were offering us the option of letting her quietly slip away. But we said no, and they started the medication again and she became mobile but with a lot of confusion. Then we got her from the hospital into a nursing home where she lasted one night before falling out of bed and breaking a hip.

Back to hospital for hip surgery and post operative dementia from the anaesthetic. She lingered like this for a couple of months until they decided to give her Aricept. The effect was almost immediate and it was like a curtain had been lifted. She was suddenly back with us again and could talk completely lucidly. I was able to take her back to her home where she lived, with care, for another couple of years, completely lucid to the end.

I will never forget the name Aricept.

bob(from black rock) said:

morrie said:

Yes Bob. My mother took Aricept and it was like a bloody miracle drug.

thanks morrie, do you have to take it for the rest of your life?

Best to wait for poikilotherm for details such as that I think Bob.

morrie said:

I don’t pretend to know the field of application of this drug, but let me describe what I observed. Mum had Parkinson’s disease, or something very similar. Needed Parkinson’s drugs to be able to move. But they built up the dose way too quickly for someone of her size and she slipped into a world of complete halluciinations. So they put her in hospital and withdrew all drugs. She curled up like a foetus and was completely off the planet. At this stage, I realise in retrospect, they were offering us the option of letting her quietly slip away. But we said no, and they started the medication again and she became mobile but with a lot of confusion. Then we got her from the hospital into a nursing home where she lasted one night before falling out of bed and breaking a hip.

Back to hospital for hip surgery and post operative dementia from the anaesthetic. She lingered like this for a couple of months until they decided to give her Aricept. The effect was almost immediate and it was like a curtain had been lifted. She was suddenly back with us again and could talk completely lucidly. I was able to take her back to her home where she lived, with care, for another couple of years, completely lucid to the end.

I will never forget the name Aricept.

morrie, thankyou for this, it does sound miraculous.

That’s an inspiring account, morrie. I almost feel like taking some myself even though my memory’s still, uh

morrie said:

bob(from black rock) said:

morrie said:

Yes Bob. My mother took Aricept and it was like a bloody miracle drug.

thanks morrie, do you have to take it for the rest of your life?

Best to wait for poikilotherm for details such as that I think Bob.

morrie, again thanks, hope all goes well with you?

bob(from black rock) said:

morrie said:

bob(from black rock) said:

thanks morrie, do you have to take it for the rest of your life?

Best to wait for poikilotherm for details such as that I think Bob.

morrie, again thanks, hope all goes well with you?

Pleased to be of help Bob. I’m doing ok. At least the last blood test didn’t ring any alarms, though I haven’t asked the actual result.

morrie said:

bob(from black rock) said:

morrie said:

Best to wait for poikilotherm for details such as that I think Bob.

morrie, again thanks, hope all goes well with you?

Pleased to be of help Bob. I’m doing ok. At least the last blood test didn’t ring any alarms, though I haven’t asked the actual result.

What were the blood tests for?

bob(from black rock) said:

morrie said:

bob(from black rock) said:

morrie, again thanks, hope all goes well with you?

Pleased to be of help Bob. I’m doing ok. At least the last blood test didn’t ring any alarms, though I haven’t asked the actual result.

What were the blood tests for?

psa

Arsley Parsley pudding & pie,
Kissed his bottom and made it cry.
“Why do you weep, you stupid arse?”
“Because I came bottom of all the class.”

morrie said:

bob(from black rock) said:

morrie said:

Pleased to be of help Bob. I’m doing ok. At least the last blood test didn’t ring any alarms, though I haven’t asked the actual result.

What were the blood tests for?

morrie, what was your reading? and are you having Free to Total PSA ratio tests done?

psa

bob(from black rock) said:

morrie said:

bob(from black rock) said:

morrie, what was your reading? and are you having Free to Total PSA ratio tests done?

psa

I don’t know Bob. As I said, I didn’t get the numbers.

morrie said:

bob(from black rock) said:

morrie said:

psa

I don’t know Bob. As I said, I didn’t get the numbers.

morrie you are entitled to this info, and should ask for a print out of all pathology tests.