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Songbird - 19 Oct 2004 02:15 GMT

We went to the doctor today and got Mom on aricept. Doctor was asking a few
more questions to make sure it was appropriate -- after all her MMSE is 29.
But I told her three incidents that occurred in the last two weeks and she
agreed meds were in order.

So she starts tomorrow morning on 5 mg -- hope she avoids the nausea.

Thanks for letting me vent along the way on this!

Songbird

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Gwen Love - 19 Oct 2004 02:31 GMT

Songbird, Grayson's nausea lasted about two weeks, and never bothered him
again.
Gwen

> We went to the doctor today and got Mom on aricept. Doctor was asking a few
> more questions to make sure it was appropriate -- after all her MMSE is 29.
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> Songbird

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Nightwing - 19 Oct 2004 04:09 GMT

Ruth had no problems with 5mg. When she was raised to 10mg she vomited
once, then no other problems.

> Songbird, Grayson's nausea lasted about two weeks, and never bothered him
> again.
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>> Songbird

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Evelyn Ruut - 19 Oct 2004 12:33 GMT

> We went to the doctor today and got Mom on aricept. Doctor was asking a
> few more questions to make sure it was appropriate -- after all her MMSE
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> Songbird

Hi Songbird,

Aricept was such a great help to Ida. She did get a little nauseous in the
very beginning, but it passed.

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Evelyn

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Tumbleweed - 19 Oct 2004 14:02 GMT

>> We went to the doctor today and got Mom on aricept. Doctor was asking a
>> few more questions to make sure it was appropriate -- after all her MMSE
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> Aricept was such a great help to Ida. She did get a little nauseous in
> the very beginning, but it passed.

huge help to my dad for about 3 years. No nausea at all (that he mentioned
anyway).

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Charlene Donahue - 23 Oct 2004 02:05 GMT

Good luck, Songbird. John's stomach was so bad originally, I can't
comment on nausea. The aricept really helped stabilize his
memory---wish he would go back on it, but right now he just wants his
stomach pill & resperidol for agitation.

Always,

Char

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