Posted on 06/25/2012 9:18:58 PM PDT by null and void
This Obama presidency has been pretty stressful, but unfortunately, I still remember the last four years :(
FDA announces safety changes in labeling for some cholesterol-lowering drugs
Important safety changes to the labeling for some widely used cholesterol-lowering drugs known as statins are being announced today by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
These products, when used with diet and exercise, help to lower a person’s “bad” cholesterol (low-density lipoprotein cholesterol). The products include: Lipitor (atorvastatin), Lescol (fluvastatin), Mevacor (lovastatin), Altoprev (lovastatin extended-release), Livalo (pitavastatin), Pravachol (pravastatin), Crestor (rosuvastatin), and Zocor (simvastatin). Combination products include: Advicor (lovastatin/niacin extended-release), Simcor (simvastatin/niacin extended-release), and Vytorin (simvastatin/ezetimibe).
“We want health care professionals and patients to have the most current information on the risks of statins, but also to assure them that these medications continue to provide an important health benefit of lowering cholesterol,” said Mary Parks, M.D., director for the Division of Metabolism and Endocrinology Products in the Office of Drug Evaluation II in FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research.
The changes to the statin labels are:
* Certain cognitive (brain-related) effects have been reported with statin use. Statin labels will now include information about some patients experiencing memory loss and confusion. These reports generally have not been serious and the patients’ symptoms were reversed by stopping the statin. However, patients should still alert their health care professional if these symptoms occur.
"Stress" produces so many side effects that it's really hard for modern, hyperspecalized medicine to correlate back to the root cause.
What is behind this latest analysis? Gov wanting to justifiy people 'not working'? Are they wanting 'de-stress modalities taking precedent; at Gov behest? Another angle per 'required' 'health care'?
Maybe next, we will learn that speed limits under 35mph help resist dementia; or that babies raised 'in home' with Mother; are 'stressed'! Will we learn that Electric cars help reduce stress and ,consequently Alzheimers stats improve?
Will we all be doing 'tai chi' in the public square on 'Doctor's Orders'? What are they thinking? . .
Good grief; 'life happens'. . .and meantime, all the culprits, are Government exempt. Just not Government recommended/required antidotes. . .
Perhaps, having a Government as 'Nanny'; causes dementia. What about those flu shots? Too many vaccines?
No, no; and 'no'; we can be certain.
Wow! Something new to stress about!
The statins are responsible for much more than dementia/Alzheimer’s (which is slowly terminal in itself). My father died from Bayer Aspirin Company’s “Baycol” in 2002 at about 87. His kidneys were killed. He never suffered from dementia.
Now when you’re stressing, you can stress even more knowing the stress is giving you Alzheimer’s!
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My late husband died at 75 from Alzheimers. He suffered from Korean combat related PTSD. He was a chronic worrier, and as was pointed out when he finally went to AA for his alcoholism, he harbored resentments. He was hit on the head several times because of street crime, and at 63 his school was moved from one location to another. He had a hard time with that move and at 66, I think this became apparent to the administration and he was encouraged to retire. His mother was also in a nursing home for a number of years and died at I think 82. His morbidly obese father died at I think 68.
On the other hand, my life has been relatively stress free ;-). I have always been basically cheerful and optimistic. My parents were not happily married. My husband of 44 years started drinking after the 2nd year of marriage, after about 10 years I would say he was a full fledged alcoholic, but he never missed a day of work. I lived in fear of his temper, and sheltered our 2 children from his outbursts. Finally, his friends took him to AA and he stopped drinking. Then in 1995 my mother was seriously ill and I cared for her for 4 months because she wanted to die at home which she did. Then my father died and my brother and I had to fix up an liquidate 6 low income rental properties. By that time it was clear my husband had alzheimers. For the last 3 years I cared for him 24/7/365, and he wanted to die at home too, which he did in 2005. Then the city “attacked” me for neglecting my property for those 10 years, and I struggled for over 2 years getting out from under Condemnation proceedings.
At any rate, I now continue to optimistic and happy and have a wonderful, non-drinking man in my life probably permanently at my age of 74 My mother died at 89 of congestive heart failure, my father at 99 of a stroke. They were both mentally lucid near the end at least when well rested.
So, the question is, why do I have absolute mental clarity at roughly the same age that my husband died, who had only been able to remember for 10 or 15 seconds for the previous 4 years. We ate roughly the same, my healthy cooking, and I give/gave us both a collection of vitamins and minerals tailered to our individuality. I think there is much more to it than the article suggests. I can remember 30 years earlier, my husband would get a sort of blank look for a few seconds and seem to not be all there. Never affected his driving though. My mother would ask if I was sure he did not have petit mal epilepsy, but that did not seem likely. The search for answers must continue.
I am so sorry to hear about your difficulties. I too have had to surmount troubles, see my comment #29. I would strongly encourage you to learn about supernutrition and vitamin/mineral therapies. You can google your illnesses of interest. List the illness and then add nutrients and supplements for healing. You should get some interesting information.
I was doing this for my husband with Alzheimer’s and myself for stress. Although it did not stop my husbands illness and death, he was in pretty good physical condition until the last 6 months when he became incontinent, and then began having some trouble walking. Actually, only for the last month was he really physically disabled. I think the key to end of life living with relatively good condition until the very end can be achieved with super nutrition. Good luck.
“having Alzheimers will keep me from having a stressful life.” Actually, there is some truth to that, before my husband developed Alzheimers he worried a lot and harbored resentments. With Alzheimers he could only remember for 10 or 15 seconds, and he never could remember anything to worry about or to resent. I just had to be sure to feed him in a hurry so he would not leave the house “hunting” for food when he got hungry.
“having Alzheimers will keep me from having a stressful life.” Actually, there is some truth to that, before my husband developed Alzheimers he worried a lot and harbored resentments. With Alzheimers he could only remember for 10 or 15 seconds, and he never could remember anything to worry about or to resent. I just had to be sure to feed him in a hurry so he would not leave the house “hunting” for food when he got hungry.
B.S. We are living longer and healthier than ever.
people in the past did not live long enough to suffer from these advanced aged diseases.
Seriously, sort out the things you are stressed about. You'll find a lot of it is something that you can't control. Play "what if", make a backup plan, and a backup plan for that, and then let God take it over, at least until you can affect it.
The only things worth stressing over are the ones you can affect, then do what you can... and clear the decks by taking care of the little crap that doesn't take much more time to fix than it does to worry about it.
One day at a time, FRiend (sometimes minute to minute)!
Now Relax! (there is always time to panic later).
Could be. We don't know, so I wouldn't rule anything out at this point.
I have noticed that certain behaviours and habits can affect the likelyhood of other diseases/maladies, from cancer, heart/lung/kidney/liver diseases, skin problems, etc., and I think that stresses on an organism may make it susceptible to infection.
It is likely there is no one simple answer for all cases, and we may still be misdiagnosing or lumping together separate maladies under a symptomatic classification even though their causes are unrelated.
Actually, I found that riding my old shovelhead with fairly loud pipes, open highway and wind in my face, was a great stress reliever... All the 'modern' beeps, dings, whirrs, and other electronic noises (especially including *&^*^&&* cell phones!) are not relaxing at all.
Boy, am I in trouble!
From my reading on Alzheimer’s there is a fairly large hereditary component; most likely susceptibility that other conditions trigger. Those triggers may be worry or life style. I doubt that they will ever be able to nail down the triggers. A hereditary gene they probably will find.
I must say that you must be a very strong individual to have endured all that you did and manage to maintain a positive attitude.
Congratulations on a life well lived.
Obama appears to be one of them.
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