Statins

[AliB]

Oooh! Oooh! Designer pills! Designer prices!

What next? Design-your-own combination pill?

Hmm, how about constipation, backache, toothache and a decongestant combination? Or Thrush, Diarrhoea, acne and shingles?

Why don't they just give people cyanide pills and be done with it? It would save the National Health a fortune........

[SmarT2]

Or perhaps we might be offered, "Would you like statins with your fries?"

Think today I'll just have the oil, uncooked, just as a dressing------- hold the potatoes and statins thanks! Now what kind of oil would that be?............... Olive, macadamia, sesame, coconut.....
Alison

[Mitch]

Hi all

If you believe the benefits of statin drugs, out weigh the very often highly dangerous and life threatening side effects, then you're already on drugs.

Mitch

[Cam]

Hi all

If you believe the benefits of statin drugs, out weigh the very often highly dangerous and life threatening side effects, then you're already on drugs.

Mitch

Or maybe just buying the right/wrong (Magic) Mushrooms.

[SmarT2]

Sitting in the waiting room of my Dr's for a non-diabetic annual check up! Couple of guys around my age chatting. One says to the other that he had been having some muscle aches in his arms and fuzzy logic and a friend asked him if he was on Lipitor. He was and his friend advised him to go and check it out with his doctor. He had just done that and doctor told him that Lipitor was not a problem.

His friend in the surgery said that it caused him a problem. Of course I could no longer stay quiet as I was about to go in and tell my doctor that while chronicling my diabetes history I had found the intense muscle pains in my arms, pins and needles in my fingers had ceased when I stopped taking----Lipitor.

So, I butted into the conversation and told him my experience and all the stuff I had researched about the "rare" side effects of this statin. We chatted for some time and surprise, surprise he had T2. We got through a lot of "why would you Low Carb stuff" when the nurse called him in to collect his wife who had had several strokes.

Told my doctor what I had found out about Lipitor and my adverse reactions and she just looked stunned, really. Was kind of hoping that the guy I had just been talking to had also seen her just before me!

[hanadr]

The HIGHEST my Cholesterol has EVER been is 3.6 Why then am I supposed to be taking statins at 40mg a day?
As far as I can find out, My current Cholesterol of 3.0 is Too Low.
Hana

[larsson]

If you are being offered statins Hana, then the lunatics really have taken over the asylum!

larsson

[Mitch]

Hi All

Get them statins down ya. Help the drug companies make more money. When you get the muscle pains and a myriad of other complications, they have more drugs to help. They always have a pill. They even have med’s, for illnesses, even the medics haven’t heard of. Play the game, make someone rich.

Mitch

[Quest]

Here we go again more on the side effects of Simvastatin.

Simvastatin is taken by around three million people in order to lower their cholesterol and reduce the risk of having a heart attack.

However an analysis of clinical trial data in America has found that high doses can cause muscle damage and a rare condition which induces kidney problems and may be fatal.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healt ... lions.html

Graham

[tin]

You have got that right. Muscle wastage, that includes the heart. I think exercise and at the most Nicotinic acid will do the trick in lowering Cholesterol. I had a friend that was a veggie. With her high carb. intake her cholesterol was off the charts. She went into immediate depression. She had thought that she was doing so good for her body. I guess carbs. and statins can kill.