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Great, great, great idea and thank you... is all I can say for the help! Appreciate you Ken:>) Patti On Mar 17, 2010, at 9:10 AM, Kenneth Goodrich wrote: > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn