Hello
I wondered if any of you might know where I can find information on the effects of stopping galantamine, or any other "anti-alzheimers drug"
As I have posted before, Mum is now completely off the galantamine and 14 days after the last dose is spiralling down pretty fast. We guess she is probably in the final stage of the illness now, but I keep hoping not. I can't bear even the thought of losing her, she is such a lovely Mum, even though she doesn't know me most of the time.
Her mobility, speech and language skills have taken a real battering, she can no longer wash, dress or feed herself without a lot of supervision, and she seems so much "further away" than she was even a month ago. Her eyes seem to look through you rather than at you, if you know what I mean, and she is more stiff in the face and upper body, she also feels her knees are "giving way" and can't always "feel her feet", whatever that means.
Both family and the staff at the care home are worried and very angry, but when we asked the psychiatrist if this downward turn was due the drug being stopped -on the grounds that after 3 years it was "time for a change", - he would not give a straight yes or no, just said that it was "the disease progressing". Not much help really.
It seems drug companies and doctors are very helpful at warning of the side-effects of being on this type of medication, but there seems to be no info on the effects of stopping it.
Kathleen
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I wondered if any of you might know where I can find information on the effects of stopping galantamine, or any other "anti-alzheimers drug"
As I have posted before, Mum is now completely off the galantamine and 14 days after the last dose is spiralling down pretty fast. We guess she is probably in the final stage of the illness now, but I keep hoping not. I can't bear even the thought of losing her, she is such a lovely Mum, even though she doesn't know me most of the time.
Her mobility, speech and language skills have taken a real battering, she can no longer wash, dress or feed herself without a lot of supervision, and she seems so much "further away" than she was even a month ago. Her eyes seem to look through you rather than at you, if you know what I mean, and she is more stiff in the face and upper body, she also feels her knees are "giving way" and can't always "feel her feet", whatever that means.
Both family and the staff at the care home are worried and very angry, but when we asked the psychiatrist if this downward turn was due the drug being stopped -on the grounds that after 3 years it was "time for a change", - he would not give a straight yes or no, just said that it was "the disease progressing". Not much help really.
It seems drug companies and doctors are very helpful at warning of the side-effects of being on this type of medication, but there seems to be no info on the effects of stopping it.
Kathleen
xx