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Does Change In Medication Worsens Alzheimer S Disease?
my mother was on namendia an doing ok . we put her on aricept becasuse of the cost. she was only on aricept for 3 weeks n was doing very poorly. so the doctor put her back on namendia an now we are dealing with repeating. was it from the change of medicines?
Tue, 30 Dec 2014
Hello and thank you for your question. Namenda and aricept are both used to treat dementia, however they work on different neruotransmitters in the brain. Aricept is used to treat mild to moderate dementia and namenda is used to treat moderate to severe dementia. If her dementia is more severe then this could be the cause for her worsening on the aricept. Repeating is one of the symptoms of dementia and is probably just a progression of her dementia and not due to the medication change. Hopefully she will stabilize now that she is back on the namenda. This is a difficult diagnosis and I wish you the best in working with her.
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