Aricept side effects

After a year and 8 months on 10 mg. of Aricept for AD, my mother's loss of appetite became so severe she almost refused to eat and experienced frequent gastrointestinal upsets. After stopping Aricept about 2 months ago, her appetite improves and the upsets are less frequent, however, in the last two months her memory seems to be declining rapidly and she wandered away from home in the night.

I was scribed aricept for a mild nuerocognitive disorder. The second day I was on it I has seizure like symptoms. I stopped for a day and the symptoms got better. I took it again for one night and the seizures came back. I went to the emergency room and they said that I was having a severe Migraine.

My nuerologist scribed clonopin which seemed to clear up the post symproms after about a week.

I have had extrapyramydal symptoms before on medications like cymbalta and Elavil. I have been scribed clonopin for that as well and that has cleared up the EPS as well over time.

I have a friend who mom had pre-parkinson symptoms and I was told she had very similar reactions to aricept.

Vivid Nightmares, I wake crying and shaking I haven't slept a nights sleep since I started taking it. Loss of appetite, weight loss of course, nerves are shot and of course I am agitated all the time. My nightmares are all bad and gruesome. I am a very serene and content person and this is affecting me in a very hurting and unhealthy way for me I also just came home from the hospital from having astete put in my left artery of my heart and these nightmares are lacking my needed sleep. Is there any other Meds for Alzheimer's?

shaking, sweats

My husband had breathing problems and mucous build up in bronchi. He died while taking Aricept.

My father has only been on aricept for a short time, only about a week. Last night he woke up trying to figure out where he was and how to get out of a house that he has lived in for 46 years. Is this a normal side effect of aricept and if so, doesn't the treatment kind of defeat the purpose when the disease itself takes your mind from you gradually. This is the first time anything like this has happened to my daddy.

My mother has been taking Aricept for approximately 6 months and has been having nightmares about her children being dead or being abused. This has started since she started taking Aricept. Will this drug mixed with blood pressure medication cause this?

I was on it for about 6 months---did not want to be----doctor and family chewed on me if I did not constantly
4 days ago another doc said stop taking it
I am sleeping better

And I think my head is more clear----I took Gingko which every one frowned on----am still taking it

My mother is taking aricept, effexor and remeron as prescribed.....her confusion and memory lost seems to be increasing at a more rapid rate. Could this be due to the combination of drugs? Should aricept be combined with two anti-depressants?

My father is 76 yrs. old and is taking aricept. Is night sweats associated with taking this medication?

my mom has been on aricept 5 mg for a year and is having frequent urination. it is getting worse and we have ruled out a bladder infection and her bloodwork was normal. is this common after being on it this long?

My mother is 93 yrs. old, She started to take the drug aricept & was having nightmares. Could you explain why?