Alzheimer’s Notes

Confusing Information About Alzheimer’s Medications & Research

by Mary Emma Allen on April 30th, 2008

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Does anyone ever feel confused about all the information coming out about medications and research concerning Alzheimer’s possible preventions and cures?  It gets a bit overwhelming for the layman, I find.

For instance, a recent announcement, Arthritis Drug Etanercept May Help Alzheimer’s Patients, has been questioned by medical authorities, Claims that Arthritis Drug Etanercept Helps Alzheimer’s May Not Be Accurate.  

Research and possible helpful medical claims can get our hopes up, only to be dashed when new research surfaces that may contradict it.  How are we to tell?

Or do you get annoyed with your Alzheimer’s patient’s doctor when he/she doesn’t jump on the bandwagon of new medicine immediately?

Unfortunately, we have to learn patience…not an easy thing when we want so desperately to find a cause and cure, to prevent Alzheimer’s from happening to family members and possibly eventually to us.  Realize the medical research community is making strides, and we need to look at all avenues of possibilities, including medicine and diet.

I’ve been through cancer, Alzheimer’s, and other illnesses with our family and none have an easy instant cure or solution.  Currently we’re waiting and waiting while a family member recovers from a pancreatitis attack.  We haunt the ICU ward, hoping and praying each day there will be a fast change for the better, not a slow, miniscular one.

Increased awareness of illnesses and the desire of researchers to look closer and closer into them, along with our infinite power to pray and have hope sustains us.

(c)2008 Mary Emma Allen

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