Aricept and vascular dementia
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My husband has been taking 10mg of Aricept for 2 years now and I have not noticed any significant difference in his memory. Actually, my observation is his memory is becoming worse. I'm struggling with whether I should discontinue the medication since I don't see improvement and because it is quite costly. I also know Aricept is designed to slow down the dementia so if I discontinue it I'm wondering if he will become worse much faster.
Second visit to neurologist (3 week wait) he did the EEG, said I had dementia, prescribed Aricept and depakote, referred me to psychological evaluation.
I went to the evaluation(after 7 weeks), did the tests, waited 8 weeks for the results.
Third visit to the neurologist, he flipped the report to the last page, he looks up says you are just depressed.
The findings, to be published on Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association, are significant given the high rates of Type 2 diabetes around the world, and the expectation that dementia rates will increase as the population ages.
“We’ve known for some time that patients with Type 2 diabetes are at greater risk of dementia and cognitive problems,” said Rachel A. Whitmer of the Division of Research at Kaiser Permanente in Oakland, Calif., one of the authors.
Hello.
Dementia is not a demyelinating disorder. Dementia is a disorder which can have up to 50 different causes. The commonest ones are the vascular dementia and Alzheimer's type dementia. High blood pressure is a contributing factor for vascular dementia.
Her dementia consisted of repeating and repeating, forgetting who visited, etc. but went throughout her normal activities w/some services very well and very happiy. Always knew us but was starting to forget other people but after prompting she would be ok.
3 weeks ago she developed a very severe resistant UTI and then got c-dift (not sure how to spell that). Anyway ended up dilusional, confused, etc. and then went to the hospital with dehydration,etc.
My mother is 80 years old.
Since 2018, she has been seeing her deceased husband (my father), her deceased parents, and her deceased sister in her own home. In other words, she has been having hallucinations.
A CT scan of the head, without contrast, was performed on my mother 3 weeks ago. According to the result of this CT scan, "severe cerebral white matter microvascular ischemic changes" can be seen.
Blood tests for syphilis , vitamin B12 , folate , thyroid, liver, and kidney function
CT scan —a type of x-ray that uses a computer to make pictures of structures inside the head
MRI scan —a test that uses magnetic waves to make pictures of structures inside the head
PET or SPECT scans—tests that use dyes to measure the activity levels of various areas of the brain (used in some cases)
Lumbar puncture —a test of the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) from the lower back; may be done to look for infecti
t know anything about that - all I know is that before Aricept, I was in a gray mist, and after five months of Aricept, everything seemed to make more sense. Before Aricept, it was as if I had low water pressure - I just couldn't get enough juice in my brain to put thoughts together. On Aricept, suddenly my brain could make connections.
The only trippy thing I noticed was an almost hi-def moire behind my eyeballs when I went to sleep.
For some time I have been having numbness, tingling and pain in primarily my right hand, but sometimes my left. I was checked for Carpal Tunnel. I was told I was borderline.
However, I seem to get these strange pains in my torso, legs and feet. I'm starting to think it's a Vascular problem. Yesterday after walking 30 minutes, my right foot had a burning sensation. I examined my foot and noticed the veins looked weaker and there were also very thin red ones I had never seen.
Some months ago she became confused and nauseous and vascular shunts were put in to drain the fluid. They went back in 3-4 times to adjust the shunts as my aunt did not respond and became more confused. After more than a month of recovery in the hospital she was moved closer to her home- and then finally to a skilled nursing facility. My cousin, her only child, has decided that now she just had dementia and there is nothing more to do. My cousin insists that Drs.
s frustrating! Dementia can happen due to a variety of things, not just alzheimers though. Vascular and heart issues are well known culprits. Brain injury. COPD or anything in which the brain is not as oxygenated. Here's a whole long list of what can cause dementia. https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/dementia/symptoms-causes/syc-20352013 I have read thought that doctors ARE hesitant to diagnose alzheimers disease until they have observed the dementia over a period of time.
I am curious as to how many years of having hep C is it when the dementia comes into play?? My mother has had it for over 50 years and is showing signs of dementia. She has done many rounds of interfuron and it is still there with her counts in the millions.....
Now she has gotten the family to believe her dilerious rants and ousted me from the entire family....which is not that big to begin with, but now all 9 are in on her strange delirium.
Clinically one has cerebral ischemic events that have a tendency to recur and progress to multi infarct dementia. These ischemic events are associated with depression, parinsonian manifestations and essential hypertension.. theendocrinal and metabolic abnormailites include non insulin dependent diabetes, type IV hyperlipidemia , truncal obesity and hyperuricemia. Consult your neurologist for further details. Take care.
Do elderly people with Vascular Dementia really "forget" how to balance and walk?
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My husband has dementia. He takes the Bupropion in the morning along with his Aricept and Exforge (for blood pressure). He gets drowsy right after taking his pills and I think it may be the Bupropion HSL SR causing this. His neurologist told him the anti-depressant would probably make him "a little more fuzzy in his thinking". My husband is usually at his best in the morning as far as clear thinking goes.
Positive for optic neuritis, neuro treating for vascular dementia but continuing workup my question. First mri with abnormal white matter and dx of ms by radioligist has never worsened same mri report in january 2018. never had a normal mri the 2005 was first one... i was born early mom complete placental abruption. I had trouble memorizing and learning math. But never diagnosed supposedly normal. HS / nursing school grad with 4.
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