Sorry I couldn't read the entire thread, but when I did take protonix with my morning meds, I did not have memory issues.

While lewy body dementia can occur at a relatively young age compared to the elderly, it is very uncommon. And as someone whose grandmother died last month from dementia, I can tell you that the major symptoms for her were psychosis, more so than the memory loss. Dr's did think she had BP, but she was psychotic nearly all the time and had confusion. I can't deny the memory loss, but it wasn't really the most prominent symptom for her. The confusion was more like, "I'm going to go see my mother and cook her some dinner," or "no, we're in Brooklyn and the deli is 2 blocks down the street." (She used to live in Brooklyn for 30 years, but our house is just outside Boston and is rural.)

So the confusion was tied in with psychosis, as was everything else (including the memory loss). Plus, the onset of dementia is very slow and not sudden, despite it being a progressive disease. She got the confusion, psychosis, and memory loss at the same time, more or less. And as I sort of implied, the confusion is severe, not like, "oops, I left my front house door unlocked when I went to the store." More like, "my mom is alive and around the corner, waiting for me to come home," even though she was 82 and obviously her mom was long gone.

Hope that helps.