¡perdón, Eugenia!

Ésta soy yo hablando inglés en un foro sobre ginko biloba, bajo un artículo que afirma que los estudios recientes indican que no sirve para nada… Pues da la casualidad de que tuve recientemente la misma conversación con Linda, y pensé que tal vez a alguien le sirva lo que puedo decir al respecto. La medicina que tomo se llama Fiotón y se consigue en cualquier botica.

I am fifty two and allergic to the usual forms of ginko biloba. Nevertheless my ear specialist suggested some three to four years ago my hearing troubles may improve if I take it. He recommended a standardized form with Vitamin E that does not give me any trouble. Since then I have been taking regularly half the usual daily dosis.
At the time I was having as well serious memory trouble, sometimes already not being able to form coherent sentences. I had to circumscribe what I intended to say, for I could not recall the most immediate words. I forgot as well in mid-sentence how I wanted to end what I was telling, or could not complete the idea I wanted to express. My reading became cumbersome, for I did not recognize many words. I had to use a dictionary even for pretty usual terms.
Many of my relatives have been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, including two aunts. Many have suffered for years from other forms of dementia. I went to a geriatrician who ruled out Alzheimer’s. I am not quite convinced she was right. It may have been just too soon to be sure.

I know that anecdotical evidence is of little scientific value, still I heartily underscore the comments above. There must be a subgroup of people like me. Perhaps people prone to get Alzheimer’s, or with a family history like mine. The improvement I’ve had is amazing. My hearing has not further deteriorated and even as my memory has not reached the level of other times, I feel ‘normal’.
I still forget most of what I read. I’ve been a voracious reader most of my life and this can be pretty annoying. Neither do I know how much of my former memory if any more it is possible for me to get back. Perhaps there is still some room for improvement, I hope. But it really does not matter that much anymore. I just feel kind of myself again and that is more than I ever thought possible. I was already toying with the idea of a timely suicide and perplexed by the problem of how to not let pass the ‘last’ right moment, for I surely do not want to die before my time.
As I do not take any other drugs but the ones prescribed for my high blood pressure, I cannot attribute the favorable change but to the fact that I have been now taking regularly ginko biloba for so many months.