Hi, this is my first post, i'm really after advice our mum suffers from vascular dementia the doctors have told us a couple of weeks ago, has anyone have experience with galantamine, i'd never heard of it until last night when it was mentioned on the BBC chelsea flower show has it comes from daffodils.
Mums gone down hill from last October 2017, before then she had short term memory loss from a couple of strokes a few years prior but knew who we were and where she was, since October 2017 she's confused most of the time with out bursts of her been hyper not knowing what she's doing and trying to leave the house, walking about as if she's 100% fit when she can't normally walk far then when she comes round she's in severe pain, she also suffers from other conditions that cause her confussion, UTI's, blood pressure, angina, DDD, she's in pain most of the time, she's on six different meds.
The doctors put her on a 5mg butec patch this was helping with the pain and she wasn't as confused, she had nearly 4 weeks of sleeping through the night and getting up during the day and was nearly her old self until she had a fall at midnight going to the kamode around 4 weeks ago since then it's got worse the patch doesn't seem to work even though it's increased to 10mg, we seem to go one step forward then two back.
I know we are never going to fix the problem but want to try and do the best that we can for her, the confussion seems to be the biggest problem, does galantmine work and will it help her.
Thanks for taking the time to read my post.
Mums gone down hill from last October 2017, before then she had short term memory loss from a couple of strokes a few years prior but knew who we were and where she was, since October 2017 she's confused most of the time with out bursts of her been hyper not knowing what she's doing and trying to leave the house, walking about as if she's 100% fit when she can't normally walk far then when she comes round she's in severe pain, she also suffers from other conditions that cause her confussion, UTI's, blood pressure, angina, DDD, she's in pain most of the time, she's on six different meds.
The doctors put her on a 5mg butec patch this was helping with the pain and she wasn't as confused, she had nearly 4 weeks of sleeping through the night and getting up during the day and was nearly her old self until she had a fall at midnight going to the kamode around 4 weeks ago since then it's got worse the patch doesn't seem to work even though it's increased to 10mg, we seem to go one step forward then two back.
I know we are never going to fix the problem but want to try and do the best that we can for her, the confussion seems to be the biggest problem, does galantmine work and will it help her.
Thanks for taking the time to read my post.
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