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How Long Can One Drive While On Excelon Patch For Early Stages Of Alzheimer S?

May 74 year old father was just diagnosed with early stages on Alzheimer s. He was started on excelon 4mg patch and we are waiting too see how he reacted to th spatchcock before we let him drive..... Just to be safe. First question- how long do we wait to see if he has a reaction Second question- they said he was in early stages so what does that mean? How long before he doesn t know common things and should we take driving away all together? Lastly- he is a diabetic and has been for years. Will this progress the disease and maybe cause him to have more side effects?
Tue, 7 Jul 2015
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I really appreciate your concern, this is geriatric disease and everything would be very uncertain to predict because clinical examination is the very important, condition may remains for long lasting some time moral support does great job, hope this information helps, take care and have nice day.
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How Long Can One Drive While On Excelon Patch For Early Stages Of Alzheimer S?

HI Well come to HCM I really appreciate your concern, this is geriatric disease and everything would be very uncertain to predict because clinical examination is the very important, condition may remains for long lasting some time moral support does great job, hope this information helps, take care and have nice day.