Re: statins don't reduce dementia risk


"Bill" <xxx@xxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Sharon Hope" <shope@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>> Out of interest, how would you characterisze the recovery today. 10%,
>>> 50%, 90%?
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>> Still waiting for test results....
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>> impatiently
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> I was just asking for your personal sense of how things have improved over
> time - in terms of dementia. Just a little. A lot. Somewhere in the
> middle.
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Somewhere in the middle, probably about 1/3 of the way back, I hope.
Definitely better than when on the Lipitor.

The best way I know how to explain it is this:

It was as if we had been walking along and at some point I realized he
wasn't next to me. Backtracking I realized he had fallen down an open
manhole and disappeared (Lipitor).

I started working frantically to find out if he survived the fall and
running to experts for help in achieving a rescue, but it was months (off
the Lipitor) before I could hear his voice echoing faintly in the dark.

Years before I could see the top of his head.

Another year before he was able to climb out to the degree that his head
showed above the sidewalk.

Now, it seems as if he has climbed up to where his chest shows, but on some
days, too often, his foot seems to slip off the rung and he is up only to
his chin above the sidewalk.

Three and a half years off the Lipitor, weekly cognitive rehabilitation
therapy, CoQ10, specialist consultations, myriads of tests, and he is
probably only a third of the way out of that hole.

Absolutely improved, what a blessing! But still far, far, far to go.

Had it been Alzheimer's or Pick's or Tau protein or other fronto-temporal
dementia, he would never have resurfaced at all, only gotten worse. Had it
been a head injury, he may or may not have had a similar progression (there
are inpatients with head injury - accident victims, police who have survived
gunshot wounds to the head, others who take the same cognitive
rehabilitation therapy there and they make progress.).

But far, far, far to go.


> Thanks.
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> Bill
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>>> Bill
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