February 3, 2011
The Primary Care Physician made a referral to an
Alzheimer’s Psychiatrist to do a workup and make recommendations for new meds.
Reggie and I were in the office with her as he made his evaluation. He only
took a few minutes to ask her many very general questions and came back with a
quick diagnosis of advanced Alzheimer’s. She exhibited extreme confusion and
answers totally inappropriate for the questions. We discussed her history and
progression as well as medication history. She had been through Aricept, which
worked for a while. Then Ecelon patch near her birthday in September, 2010,
created a huge leap forward in the symptoms and extreme nausea,
vomiting, dizziness, loss of appetite, muscle cramps, and tremors instead of helping at all. So we went back to the Aricept
which didn’t seem to help one way or another. So Dr. Jagveer decided to try Razadyne.
Again two days on Razadyne and she was in bed a week with extreme nausea, vomiting, dizziness, loss of appetite, and muscle
cramps. Her mental state was worse than ever. So we dropped that medication as
well.
