My wife won’t let me use heroin.
Is wife beneficiary of will and insurance?
Don’t know , but Lipitor almost killed me! Will where the scars for the rest of my life!
statins are controversial and you might want to research it a bit.
Gramps takes tumeric and it seems to work just great.
Here’s a recent thread with 99 comments. Maybe it’s in there.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3783746/posts
My buddy stopped his....said his legs felt numb.
My personal experience with statin drugs was very bad. Within a week of starting the statin drug (Lipitor) my legs hurt so bad I could hardly walk. I stopped the drug and was perfectly fine in 2 days. Several people I know have had similar experiences.
It's from those institutions that you'll get the latest and most reliable *general* advice. Of course *specific* advice is best sought from a physician who knows you well.
My joints felt achy and muscle weakness when on statins. Eff that I’ll drink red wine and a low dose aspirin every other day and take my chances.
I have an autoimmune muscle disease from taking statins. My wife is a pharmacist and assisted in the diagnosis several years ago. They are great drugs, but this disease is NOT fun. I canot fun or jump. My balance is terrible. Climbing stairs and getting out of chairs is very hard. And it looks like I won’t be cured.
Pharmacist today is someone who counts pre-made pills and knows how to charge healthcare plans.
That said, I have my doubts about statin usefulness.
I have nerve damage issues. Statins are a neurotoxin. I don’t need more damage to my nerves. I prefer to rely on diet to reduce my serum cholesterol.
My doctor prescribed statins over 20 years ago.
I never took them. Buddy of mine at work took them and always complained of muscle aches.
No thanks. My stats were good he just wanted to be “proactive “
Now this is interesting. I just had my first appointment with my new primary care team at our local VA clinic.
My “doc” is actually a nurse practitioner, and we had a good chat about every aspect of my health. Nice young woman — unlike most of the MD’s I’ve encountered, she was actually willing to listen to my questions and concerns. I felt like I had her undivided attention, and that’s not such a common thing in health care today.
Anyway, the subject of my cholesterol test and statins came up. She said that VA regs required to offer that med to me if I wanted it. I said I had done some reading about statins and thought they were risky, to say the least.
She then said my “bad” cholesterol was excellent but my “good” cholesterol could stand a little improvement — but this would almost certainly happen if I lost a little more weight.
Since at the time, I was celebrating a 20-pound weight loss — up to 27 this week — I declined the statins, and my caregiver fully endorsed my decision.
Statins make no sense since there never has been a proven link between LDL levels and heart disease. The only correlation I have seen is between lower LDL and higher mortality. Statins are being marketed based on a very profitable medical myth.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-10-ldl-cholesterol-heart-disease.html
I had a heart attack at one point and was put on statins (lipitor). I began to have issues with my feet and doctors treated it as if it was related to blood sugar issues. It was tingling and numbness.
Someone, don’t even recall who, asked if I use statins. Peripheral nerve damage is one of the side effects. I had days I couldn’t even stand my feet were on fire so bad. I decided to test by stopping the lipitor for 2 weeks. My feet got remarkably better. I have not taken it since. I still have some slight tingling which is likely from nerve damage that will never heal but for over a year now the problem has pretty much leveled off and is tolerable.
Statins did great for my cholesterol but was not worth the cost. Some people may take statins lifelong and have no issues but if you start them be sure to know the side effects and keep close watch for any signs or issues as they can be deadly.
I’ve been taking pravastatin for years. I take it after I’ve eaten high cholesterol foods in a day and its kept my levels down. I also take a flax oil and turmeric supplements. Don’t notice any side effects.