Dr. increased aricept - have others experienced ? results ?

[Guest guest]

My husband was diagnosed with LBD 3 yrs ago and started on aricept (first 5mg,

then 10mg). He did very well with it, that is, no problems related to it and

his cognition improved significantly. He is now in at least phase 3, bordering

on phase 4. Just recently the psychitrist added namenda to see if that would

help. He could't take it because it caused a lot more problems with

hallucinations and anxiety. His neurologist recommended that we try increasing

the aricept to see if it would help. She says that some lewy body people really

benefit from the increase, whereas the Alzheimer people don't. We have gone up

to 15mg a day. I'm not sure if it is just my wishful thinking or if he really

is more alert.

I'm wondering if anyone else has increased aricept and what were their

experiences.

a in Dallas

[Guest guest]

Thank you, Helen, for sharing your experience with aricept. It is encouraging

to me to hear about good results from the increase. I thought that my husband

was more alert, and so did our kids during a visit with them this past weekend.

However, since that visit he has been extremely sleepy and today was not fully

awake except for a few hours. I am hoping that the sleepiness is due to being

so tired from the trip out of town. Surely it is not from the increase in

aricept. I guess I will know the answer to that within a few days. Thanks

again for sharing.

a in Dallas