Re: statins don't reduce dementia risk


"Sharon Hope" <shope@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "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.
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> The best way I know how to explain it is this:
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> 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).
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> 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.
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> Years before I could see the top of his head.
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> Another year before he was able to climb out to the degree that his head
> showed above the sidewalk.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Absolutely improved, what a blessing! But still far, far, far to go.
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> 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.).
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> But far, far, far to go.
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>

Thanks. Progress is progress and that is obviously a good thing. It also
suggests that it is POSSIBLE that the underlying cause could be found and a
treatment discovered.

I have only a meager suggestion. You noted there are up and down days. If you
could determine some cause and effect relationship e.g. diet, environment
(inside, outside) that might help.

I sincerely wish you both the best of luck in the future.

Bill

>> Thanks.
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>> Bill
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>>>> Bill
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