Tanis, 99% of this message board is opinion. With your stated thought, this board should be completely closed except for the 1%. From the last several post it is easily observed how emotion trumps any sense of rational thought and responses here. Based on what the GP's thoughts are determines a direction of initial treatment. It seems they would be critical to a level of success or failure in a patients health, especially the early cases of Alzheimer's. But hey, unless I and others are pumping all the time, there couldn't be any value in a post from anybody but a pumper.