Re: New to Group/sean

[Guest guest]

sean,

welcome to our wonderful family. feel free to express all of your thoughts

and concerns here, we have as a collective group experienced quite a bit, i am

caregiver for my 70 year old father who was diagnosed with lbd in just this

may he has probably had the disease for 7 years. he started with unexplaiined

falls and with extreme paranoid.

fluctuating awareness if one of the key things in lbd. that is why this

disease can fool so many because non caregivers think the patient in faking when

it comes to lbd. two weeks ago dad called teh bank and did a monetary

tranasction, and today he couldnt dial the phone if thehouse was on fire.

dad is on exelon which is one of the better medicines for lbd , and he has

regained some of his awareness back with it. i think it has done a world of

good for him. after he tops out on exelon this next visit he will have namenda

added to his regimen, there are many good files and info on the homoe page

of this site and they have details about medicines, details about symptoms and

other pertinent things. try to read as much as you can, give info on the

disaese and bad mediinces to your pharmacist for them to be sure to help monitor

the meds.

please feell free to be yourself, vent your frustrations, ask your

questions, cry your tears, stomp your feet, and even laugh at something that

looking

back was truly funny. we all understand , we are here for you and will help you

in any way we can, in this group we are blunt with our answers, we ahve to

be, to help each other out, and there is no topic that is unapproachable when

it comes to this group, believe me i know from first hand when i started having

in appropriate sexual behavoiors from my dad.

hugs and welcome to our family!!!

sharon m

a smile a day keeps the meanies away!!!

laughter is a breath of fresh air!