Maybe some of you have had communications from your GPs about meds associated with dementia - although the research doesn't say anything conclusive GPs are warning people about Diazepam. I've been communicated by my surgery in relation to this (even though I don't take Diazepam that regularly and have been taking it for years). I am more worried about other meds I take for Hyperhidrosis (Oxybutynin) which is one of those listed as linked to Dementia as is the anti-depressant I take and also my migraine meds too I think But my GP didn't mention those.
Yet I've been taking most of them for many years. While I think it's good for GPs to warn us and also think it's good we cut down on meds if possible many of these do help me.
I did reply to my GP in an email re Diazepam and how I've always been a sometimes user if long term but haven't had a response yet.
Has anyone else been warned off Diazepam?
Many thanks
Moggy
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my mother took Valium for 50 years at night and a benedryl........she got dementia and Alzheimer's.......would she have traded NOT taking the valium all those years for what she has been going through now, probably not.
SHE NEEDED the Valium she said. Her generation took it like y'all used to eat Skittles.
Other took the same combo of pills as mother did, and not ONE had any problem. MY DOG got dog dementia.......very similar symptoms to mothers ............dog never took a pill in her life.............
NOBODY has a CLUE what causes this disease.........because they can not OPERATE on a living brain.....
Great reply I've taken diazepam for years my dad and mum both had different forms of dementia.and niether of them ever took diazepam ,so like you said it's not proven.
That's why i said about the research being inconclusive but it means that doctors may not prescribe it as much. As I say in the OP I don't take it excessively, just sometimes. I'm not your typical person who takes it every day but looks as if they're making a blanket statement but not about any of my other drugs which have also been linked with it
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But my GP didn't mention those.
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