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Thanks for all of your different comments on Aricept. Indeed every case is different. Mum has slight Alzhiemer but not Parkinson. Aricept doesnt resolve her agitation or control much even after a month. Mum also has anxiety disorder and therefore Levapro works better on her.
In anycase, I am switching her to another Neurologist for a 2nd opinion.
I wished mum has the reversible type of dementia. Aricept has no effect on her at all but Levapro does.

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I have never heard of any reversible type of dementia.
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Aricept does not reverse dementia, it slows down it's progress for a limited span of time if taken early enough. And, I'm not sure how anyone would know if it's actually working since there is no way to know how fast one's dementia would have progressed since everyone is different.
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suxxanne, NONE of the dementias are reversible. They all suck and they all end in death, some just sooner than later.
Aricept "supposedly" will slow down the progression in a small percentage of folks but that is only for about 6 months. And for the rest of the folks it does nothing at all but cause some irritating side effects.
And if it is in fact Alzheimer's that your mum has been diagnosed with, that is the slowest progressing of all of the dementias and can go on for 20+ years, so the best thing you can do now is educate yourself about this horrific disease so you are better prepared for whatever lies ahead.
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You placed another post along the same lines. Please only one question. You could have posted these responese to your first one.
https://www.agingcare.com/questions/condition-improved-when-stop-taking-aricept-492327.htm?orderby=recent
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There really is no "reversible dementia". There is treatment of symptoms, and that either works or does not in each individual case.
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