Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

What this blog is for:

My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Cumulative Use of Strong Anticholinergics and Incident Dementia

You probably have to consult with your doctor to make sure you aren't increasing your dementia risk.

Abstract here:

Cumulative Use of Strong Anticholinergics and Incident Dementia

Readable PSYblog here:

4 Very Common Medicines Newly Linked to Irreversible Dementia Risk

Four commonly used drugs which have strong anticholinergic effects are:
  1. Doxepin (Sinequan) – an older antidepressant.
  2. Chlorpheniramine (Chlor-Trimeton) – an antihistamine used to treat hayfever.
  3. Diphenhydramine (Benadryl) – another antihistamine often used to treat hayfever and sometimes used to aid sleep.
  4. Oxybutynin (Ditropan) – for bladder control.
The study, which is published in JAMA Internal Medicine, tracked 3,434 people over the age of 65 who had no signs of dementia (Gray et al., 2015).
They were followed up over 7 years, during which time 797 developed dementia.

 

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  1. Rebecca DuttonJanuary 28, 2015 at 10:44 AM

    Yikes - I've been taking Chlor-Trimeton for 40 years. At least I'm taking half of what I used to take per day.

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