Re: statins don't reduce dementia risk

In article <f9adnV1HIsgZGkffRVn-jQ@xxxxxxxxxxx>, "Sharon Hope"
<shope@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

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> > "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%?
> >>>>
> >>>> Still waiting for test results....
> >>>>
> >>>> impatiently
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> 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.
> >>>
> >>
> >> 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. 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")


Sharon,
I might have missed it but how many months did it take before you noticed
any signs of improvement in your husband's mental abilities?
I have NOT noticed hardly any improvements in relation to my memory
problems. Sarah told me yesterday that I left the storage shed unlocked.
Last week, I left my car unlocked in a grocery store parking lot. I never
done these sorts of things until the past several months. My problems do
NOT seem to be improving.
One other question: Have you seen any studies indicating that statins can
cause the adrenal glands to NOT to work properly?
Jason

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