These Prescription Drugs May Cause Alzheimer’s


We’ve recently outlined the dangers to prescription drugs and showed you how your doctor’s prescription is causing over 100,000 deaths per year.

But did you know your forgetfulness could be caused by your medication?

 

Millions of people in the US experience severe side effects from their prescription medicine, making it the fourth leading cause of death. All medication has some risk associated, but one of the most common side effects of prescription medicine is memory loss.

THE TOP 3 PRESCRIPTION MEDICINES THAT CAUSE MEMORY LOSS

“ANTI” DRUGS

Anything that starts with the word anti, like antidepressants, antihistamines, antipsychotics, or even antibiotics, will likely result in low acetylcholine levels.

Your acetylcholine levels are involved with learning and memory in the brain and when they’re too low, it could cause dementia symptoms such as blurred vision, mental confusion, and memory loss.

SLEEPING PILLS

It’s widely known that sleeping pills cause memory loss. Some users of the popular drug Ambien have even named it “the amnesia drug”.

Studies have shown that sleeping pills could put patients in a drunk-like state, wondering around as if in a coma. This results in black-out moments or memory loss.

There are more natural ways to have a better sleep than using a pill; and they’ll make you feel a whole lot better the next day.

STATIN DRUGS

Used to lower cholesterol, these drugs could be the worst for your brain and memory loss finally been added to the list of side effects required on the label.

Most people don’t know that the human brain is one quarter cholesterol and although thought of as damaging, cholesterol is actually necessary for learning and memory.

Many new scientific studies have shown the necessity of cholesterol in our body and have proven false against its long-time reputation as causing heart disease. So talk to your doctor about other, natural ways to lower cholesterol than in a harmful, memory-losing drug.

20 SPECIFIC MEDICATIONS CAUSING MEMORY LOSS

Ph. D Richard Mohs of Mount Sinai School of Medicine and former vice chairman of the Department of Psychiatry, has come up with a list of the 20 medicines known to cause memory loss as a side effect.

  • Scopolamine, atropine, glycopyrrolate used for Parkinson’s disease
  • Phenytoin or Dilantin used for Epilepsy
  • methyldopa
  • antipsychotics like Haldol, Mellaril
  • tricyclic antidepressants
  • lithium
  • barbiturates such as Amytal, Nembutal, Seconal, phenobarbital
  • chemotherapy drugs
  • painkillers like heroin, morphine, codeine
  • sleeping pills like Ambien, Lunesta, Sonata
  • benzodiazepines such as Valium, Xanax, Ativan, Dalmane
  • quinidine
  • antibiotics (quinolones)
  • antihistamines
  • interferons
  • naproxen
  • steroids
  • high blood pressure drugs
  • insulin
  • beta blockers, more commonly when used for glaucoma

WHAT TO DO NOW

If you think your memory loss can be attributed to your medication, please talk to your doctor. They may be able to offer healthier lifestyle choices to help treat your symptoms or even an alternate prescription with little side effects to your memory.

 

Source(s):

fhfn.org

http://www.healthfreedoms.org/these-prescription-drugs-may-cause-alzheimers-this-will-shock-you/