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I have little confidence that Aricept will help, or at least not for long. Your best bet is probably lots of exercise. -Ken On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 7:48 AM, patti zapf <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > My PD husband Alan, was diagnosed with mild to moderate dementia yesterday, > by neuropsychology doctors at utsw in dallas, after a day of extensive > testing. They recommend a drug called ARICEPT, which is also used for > Alzheimer patients. We will follow up soon with an office visit to his > neurologist, to see what she says. Alan currently takes rx drugs > carbidopa-levodopa(3xd), comtan(3xd), and amantadine(2xd). > > I recently read here on this listserv I think, that ARICEPT only works for > a > year or so and then there are no benefits. The doctor said his quality of > life may improve or the dementia may slow down. The side effects of this > med are softening of the stool, Yippee:>)..... -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn