Thank you for the information, I appreciate the input. I put my faith in the Lord, and feel blessed that he still doing well. It scares me when I see noticeable changes. It is good to have other input.

I'm curious about the medicine Namenda ; my Neurologist told us ( my wife is in early stages of Alzheimers) that the medicines being promoted for this disease provide little help . Did you find the Meds helped ? Is it hard to tell ?

Welcome to Connect @jhammer
@clayton48 @shellsk24, what can you tell JHammer about your experience with Namenda?

JHammer, we look forward to getting to know a bit more about you and your wife. What are some of the activities that comfort or relax your wife the most?

My husband is 68 and was diagnosed over two years ago. He started with Aricept and then we added the Namenda. He is very quiet and reserved, and I did notice a little frustration at first, so we increased his Aricept. We stuck with with it and I see a difference. My position is, unless he is having terrible side effects I'm willing to take those chances. My husband still has good coginition. He has processing and short term memory issues. We know he has been struggling with this for at least four years, but it took a diagnosis at Mayo's to convince us that is what he was struggling with. The doctor we saw at Mayo's encouraged us on both medications and said it might buy him a few more cummulative years of cognition.

Great info Clayton. Thanks for popping back on.
@jhammer - are you reluctant to start the medication?

My wife was on the patch for a year and a half then statred having nausea and vomitin. we stopped the patch and symtoms disappeared. recently we went to a different Nuerologist and follwing the exam had a discussion about Namenda and the Patch. His comment were they give very littel benefits and not worth the side effects if there are any. . We were on the highest dosage of the patch.

Hello, I am new to this group. It sounds like your situation is similar to mine. My husband is 71 and was diagnosed with Alzheimers last October. I knew something was wrong for about 3 years. He also is a very quiet and reserved individual but has even become more quiet and withdrawn since the diagnoses. My husband has been on Namenda since Jan., 2016. He started taking Lexipro a few months ago to help with anxiety. It has made a very positive difference. He has processing problems, minor short term memory problems and often has problems pronouncing words or choosing the right word to use. To make this worse on him, he was a high school English teacher and always had perfect grammar and diction. My husband will be evaluated in August to see if he is ready to participate in an Alzhiemer's Study.

Hello @suzie2017 Nice to e-meet you here. I am so sorry to hear about your husband's dementia, but am pleased you reached out here on Connect. Any disease can be isolating, especially Alzheimer's and related ones. Here you will find many supportive folks willing to share their experiences and ideas.

I am Scott and I was my wife's caregiver for 14+ years while she fought brain cancer and had many dementia-like symptoms. I was also one of the carers for my mother-in-law who had frontotemporal dementia.

I wish both you and your husband only the best and am glad you are here.

Peace & strength

Namenda doesn't work for everyone. It becomes a matter of trying different ones until one is found that helps. Namenda stabilized my husband for about 2 years and had no adverse reactions. He had tried the patch but the reaction was terrible.

Thank you Scott. I am beginning to realize that this site will be very helpful. People are friendly and very supportive by sharing their own experiences which is very helpful.