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Guide to Antipsychotic Drug Side Effects and Alzheimer's

By Christine Kennard, Health Pro Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Antipsychotic medications are used to control psychoses such as schizophrenia, but they can also be used to treat behavioral disturbances such as suspicion and paranoia associated with Alzheimer's disease.   Antipsychotic drugs, although not approved by the FDA for treatment of patients w...
11/17/09 3:26pm

HI Christine,

 

Thanks for the post. I now understand about the nature of these drugs. My FIL has not used them and hopefully he won't go to that point yet. We are moving him to an assited living place for AD elders, and we hope being closer to him will help in this process.

 

Regards,

Nina

Anonymous
Anonymous
5/27/10 5:06am

Good day,

My mother also suffer from Alzheimer, the clinic where she is staying put her on the drug halliperidol, that was a absolute disaster, she couldn't move or even feed herself, for 2 years long she was in a wheelchair and completely relying on staff to feed, change and even brush her teeth, our kids forced the clinic to take her of the drug, it took about 3 months, she is now walking all over the place, talking and laughing just the way she use to be before she went to the clinic, all the drugs they give the Alzheimer patients it is those that make them so sick and immobilize them completely, they should ban all those horrid drugs, they slowly kill the people we love and change them into strangers, although Alzheimer does the same, now and then the old mom comes back to us, she is laughing again. that is all I want. 

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By Christine Kennard, Health Pro— Last Modified: 12/19/10, First Published: 11/17/09