...This is not a query as such more a " Has this happened to anyone else"?
I received a copy of a letter to Mum's GP today from the local Dept of Psychiatry in Old Age... under whose auspices Mum has been diagnosed and had her regular MMSE tests and by whom Mum was prescribed Aricept. Anyway, this letter said that since Mum was settled in the home, and had only had one or two flare ups ( flares up??) recently, ( infection related) and that she was not likely to be having her Aricept dosage increased as it was thought to have caused her to suffer brachcardia....they were discharging her back into the care of her GP with the recommendation that she stay on the Aicept for a minimum of a further two years or possibly for life. This to be taken alongside her other medicines including Citoprolam to counter her depression.
I presume this means that we have been sacked by them and that if things become worse (again), she will have to go through the whole referral procedure from scratch.
Does this seem right to you?
I received a copy of a letter to Mum's GP today from the local Dept of Psychiatry in Old Age... under whose auspices Mum has been diagnosed and had her regular MMSE tests and by whom Mum was prescribed Aricept. Anyway, this letter said that since Mum was settled in the home, and had only had one or two flare ups ( flares up??) recently, ( infection related) and that she was not likely to be having her Aricept dosage increased as it was thought to have caused her to suffer brachcardia....they were discharging her back into the care of her GP with the recommendation that she stay on the Aicept for a minimum of a further two years or possibly for life. This to be taken alongside her other medicines including Citoprolam to counter her depression.
I presume this means that we have been sacked by them and that if things become worse (again), she will have to go through the whole referral procedure from scratch.
Does this seem right to you?