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View More Posts Reply #11 - 06/14/09 2:43pm
We put mom on Namenda and it made her very ill she lost 12 lbs in a week. We had her in a foster care hoome because the bf dosent want to care for her at home. We tried aircept also and she had the same problem. The last medication made her be more into having hallucinations and loosing more weight. We ended up with her in the hospital. In one week she went from going to a movie and dinner with us to diapers and us having to feed her every meal. She is now in a beautiful long term care facility. she is in the last stages of her disease.The dr explained to us that each different medication trial actually worssened her symptoms and we should have beeen advised that that can happen. A little information too late. Daily 3-4 people die. It is a horrible experience going there. I want her home. I can handle it, I thing she sacraficed for him when he was a baby now it is his turn to scrafice for her. I dont need to see people dying every day. it is making me very depressed. Posted on 06/23/09, 03:06 pm |
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Donna,
This is a very hard disease to deal with and I'm sorry your mother had such bad results from the medications. No one should ever take meds wihtout checking them out first to see what side effects there may be and what other drugs they should not be mixed with or what preexisting conditions may be made worse because of the meds. That said there are thousands of people who have taken these drugs, or are taking them now who have had the quality of their life imporved and prolonged by using the drugs. Not many people understand that literaly thousands, I mean like over 30 thousand a year die because of their medications and those are drugs that are taken exactly as the doctor intended them to be. I have heard in some places that number may be up closer to 100 thousand a year. That is a major tragedy IMO and one of the reasons I am constantly vigilent about what we use. Being proactive and responsible means you also have to evaluate the risks of each med and be prepared to stop them immediately if they are not doing what they should or if those side effects show up. Do not depend on a doctor to listen when you tell him about problems and change meds either. I have had to change doctors several times because they refused to hear me when I told them about problems, some I thought could be life threatening. 
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My mom couldn't take the meds either.I have her on nothing.Please tell me she isnt on serquell.That mead is not for people with this disease,If she is on it could be why she is so bad so fast.Have them take her off.Plus they keep them doped up in the homes.God bless you and her.Hugs maudie
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I'm sorry that these drugs have not helped your loved ones, for us the Namenda/Aricept combination has actually improved my husband's condition. I was ready to start looking into nursing homes for him in December but now he is happier, remembers more, is more active. I realize that it may not last forever. His doctor told me it may add months or years but when it stops being effective then there will be no other options (unless of course some new drug comes out between now and then). So I guess it's gamble when we decide to use drugs, any kind of drugs really.
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