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Caregivers: Dementia | Last Active: Mar 25 10:53am | Replies (64)
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@jeanadair123 My husband has been on Aricept for almost two years. He has had no noticeable side effects. He is in the moderate dementia stage. He can't use an iPhone though he does to play with it. He can't read more than a greeting card. He seems stable in this stage and we have not seen any progression to speak of. I think that Aricept has slowed the progression of his dementia. I wouldn't want to take him off of it to see what happens. He tried Namenda and it made him nauseated and he started hallucinating. So we stopped that.
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@ocdogmom thank you for your response. My husband really doesn’t know how to use his phone. I just check it every now and again to delete all the spam, as far as reading he seems to be OK although there are some words that he has a problem with nothing that I would consider major. His main issue is keeping up with what people are saying he says that they talk too fast. It really is a hard decision when one has to decide on behalf of someone else what is the right thing to do? I am going to chat with his cardiologist and his oncologist for their opinion before I decide because from what I’ve read it does help with memory . thank you.