Hi
Dad had a visit at home from both the nurse and doctor today. It seems that people open up more when in the comfort of their own home, I have my doubts on this one since he spent most of the day clearing up for them coming (only to find at the last minute little bits of white stuff everywhere.....Mum had been systematically ripping her pad to bits!! Took him a while to figure out where it came from).
Anyhow, the upshot is that they're going to reduce Mum's aricept to 5mg. It seems that her restlessness during the night can be caused by prolonged use of aricept.
I'm worried that this will result in further decline in Mum and she may not recover from that and wondered if anyone else had heard of this/or had any adverse effects to a reduction in the dose of aricept,
Thanks to all,
Mandy
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Dad had a visit at home from both the nurse and doctor today. It seems that people open up more when in the comfort of their own home, I have my doubts on this one since he spent most of the day clearing up for them coming (only to find at the last minute little bits of white stuff everywhere.....Mum had been systematically ripping her pad to bits!! Took him a while to figure out where it came from).
Anyhow, the upshot is that they're going to reduce Mum's aricept to 5mg. It seems that her restlessness during the night can be caused by prolonged use of aricept.
I'm worried that this will result in further decline in Mum and she may not recover from that and wondered if anyone else had heard of this/or had any adverse effects to a reduction in the dose of aricept,
Thanks to all,
Mandy
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