Re: statins don't reduce dementia risk


"Bill" <xxx@xxxxx> wrote in message
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>>>>> Out of interest, how would you characterisze the recovery today. 10%,
>>>>> 50%, 90%?
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
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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.
>>
>> 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.
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>>
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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.
>

Thanks, that is why I have kept a log for 3 1/2 years.

As the scientists say, if it wasn't documented it didn't happen.
(roughly quoted from Clifford Stoll's "Cukoos Egg")


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