Well, you could of course decide to stop the statins. As I understand they force down the collesterol value in the blood thus slowing the rate of blood vessel clogging. I am tempted to just go with being careful with my diet.
Dear Sharon
I agree with you about half meds. I take could be reduced.I have terrible lower back muscle pain one week I'm OK following week im miserable .I stop taking Tylenol for pain it's bad for the liver. I take Coumadin / Pravastatin amlodipine losartan combination of Pravastatin and lodipine have the same side effects muscle spasm I have another doctor appointment to let them know what's going on at this time I'm going to insist I want to be taking off this minute and it gets harder and harder
In the last 4weeks I have been to the Gastro, been diagnosed w Colon cancer from my very first ever colonoscopy, had it removed two days later and I am three weeks post op waiting for results from pet scan. My head didn't even have time to spin , it happened so fast. Thing is, while I was in the hospital they took my meds away 2 days prior to surgery and I didn't have the back ache the whole time. Or this crazy hoarseness I developed after changing b/P meds 3 months ago. As soon as they gave me my b/P medications and cholesterol , they came back???? Go figure. So.... Me and the good dr are fixing to have a heavy discussion here REAL SOON
Dear Sharon
. My goodness I'm so sorry to hear that and I'm glad they got everything I'll keep you in my prayers I sure would love to get off this amlodipine and Pravastatin anyway you take care take it easy
Than you so much !! You take care too ! God bless ! And I'll be praying for you too !🙏🙏🙏
I am also no longer concerned about cholesterol numbers; they do not predict CVD. I will end my statin regimen today; the pain and swelling in my shoulders and hands are too much. Animal protein remains the most concentrated form of nutrients and fruit remains a concentrated form of carbohydrates, i.e. sugar. I would attend to that fact. Get a proper lipid test: Apol B (LDL-P) - you might have to pay for it - to get the best predictor of CVD - lower the better. After all of these years and all of the science, Dr. Atkins has been shown to have been on the right path - he was driven by evidence and not pleasant bucolic thoughts. Statins are a hoax. This knowledge has been available since the beginning of the Framingham study decades ago. Heal yourself. I am not looking forward to seeing my cardiologist next week if he is like all the other doctors I have been reading about. Good Luck, everyone.
I have a new pcp and have been taken off b/P meds, cholesterol, and have lowered my thyroid meds and hormones. I feel 10 times better. Of course I try to exercise (walking) and eat low carb and low fat. Man is it hard but I'm not doing too bad. I have an appointment with the heart dr Wednesday as well and I can't wait to hear what he has to say about the changes.. I DO NOT want to go back on statins
Ive chosen to take my chances. Better then the way my husbsmd and i have faired on those junk med,im off,he now has very bad type 2 diabetes, not taking it xx
Good on you cramcg. Yes they are a hoax and I bvelieve the docs are aware of that.
Hi Sharon - good on you! The negative effects of statins may take some time to disperse depending on how long you have been taking them and at what dosage. Changing exercise/diet is a gradual project, replacing less beneficial behaviours with better ones. Stick to it you'll get there. Personally, I refuse statins after the hell they put me through while the doc denied, denied, denied, and instead asserted all the illnesses was somehow all my fault. 2 years free of statins and I still have the tailends of some of those illnesses, nut they are much diminished and I expect in the next year or so I will be all better. Good luck to you.
'but,' not 'nut.' No. I am not a nut.
Much the same , I stopped taking Atorvastatin after 8 months 6 weeks ago ---still fairly severe pain in arm and neck aged 70, if I was still playing golf I would be even more angry than I am now. Had a TIA but never really told what statin would do, -- I am married to a dietician ,we eat extremely healthily and always have done.Recently saw another doctor because of continuing pain in arm -- she wanted me to go back on the statins ! No chance !!
There seems to be a correlation between inflammation caused by the statins and Polymyalgia rheumatica
In my case I got the Polymyalgia rheumatica first. The steroids were working and the doctor was weining me off a little at a time. I went to a cardiologist and me placed me on prevastatin 40 mg. I started to have problems getting up. After 6 weeks on the statins, I had my blood work done for the Polymyalgia rheumatica and my inflammation was-back up. I stopped the statins the next day. The pain in the shoulders and upper arms and neck and hamstrings were so bad I could hardly move. Worse experience I have had with pain and I don’t want to go back there either.
I have been taking atorvastatin for about 10 years—10 mg every morning(because I could never remember to take it at night). Three weeks ago my doctor tried to increase my dosage to 40 mg. I refused but did agree to 20 mg. Taken nightly. For the past week I have had pain in my right arm so severe that I can’t fasten my bra. I am going back to 10 mg immediately but wondered what others think...if now that I have damage I should even take 10 mg.
There was front page coverage in the national newspapers a little while ago that finally it has been accepted that statins cause type 2 diabetes. Diabetes is one of the MAJOR primary causes of heart attacks. Ridiculous that we should be blanket prescribed these toxic meds which cause more harm than good
Hi Barbara - sorry to read of your situation. I would suggest you take it back to 10 since that has worked for you. I was wondering why the doc wanted to increase the dose in the first place?
Hi Mark, Thank you for continuing to update us on your progress and the research you have done. I'm off statins whether the doctor likes it or not!! I had been takins Simistatin for several years for high cholesteroI, last January was taken to the emegancy room with chest pains and immediately put on a stronger kind of statin and the left arm pain started immediately, I told the doctors it felt like it was broken, they scanned it and nothing showed up. I was told I had a heart blockage and if i didn't get a stint immediately, I would have a heart attack and die. I was sent to a hospital where they did the dye procedure and NOT the stint and I was told I was fine and didn't have a blockage and didn't need a stint. I have to walk 5 blocks each way to work and have chest pains each way. I finally couldn't breath one morning so got taken back to emergancy where i was told i had had a heart attack! I fooled them though, I didn't die. Most recently my Cardiologist said I should go back on the Simistatin since it hadn't bothered me when I had been taking it several years ago. It bothers me! I can barely get up from sitting in a chair, the pains are now in the back of my thighs and in both arms, I have to scream sometimes because walking after getting up from a chair or getting out of bed are so painful!
Thank you all for all the comments, I'm off statins!!! Will concentrate on paying attention to my diet.
As an interesting aside, no doctor has asked me what other activities I have in my life! I'm beginning to conclude my original chest pains last January 2017 were from using my rowing machine too vigorously, when you pull your arms back the machine definately pulls the muscles across your chest.
Man! Thank you; I'm not alone. Back on 12/14/17, I was prescribed 10mg of Atorvastatin. My doctor knew of my concern with Big Pharma whores, but suggested that there was a mild cardiac 'event' on my EKG that permanently changed my Q Wave which she was concerned about. after a couple of days, I started breaking out in the worst hives ever, and they persist now 2 weeks later! All I have to do is get warm or think about something stressful (which is difficult to control for most), and I'm spotted. All over, even in the palms of my hands! So I stopped taking it after about 11 days. Told them, then doctor called back and left a voice message that they want to change statins. Yeah. Right. No thanks. I, too, prefer to work through the diet. I also just read that increasing your Vitamin D status helps counter the migraine effects. Will get a bottle of that. Man, my head is hurting. I never GET headaches; that was, until the statin came into my life. Montelukast, Loratadine and Benadryl are WEAK against this nonsense. What the hell? Big Pharma can go take its own poison as far as I'm concerned.
Not when you consider that our wonderful government is trying to depopulate our Earth through FDA-approved poisons for fun and profit...
Wonderful. I tore my right rotator back in '92 working at UPS. Thankfully, I have not experienced the neuropathy (yet, anyway) as a result of statin. But I have had confusion, disorientation and some enhanced effects of manic depression. I feel the change in myself and I don't like myself right now. That is not me. This crap needs to be made obsolete. Along with 100.22% of the rest of them. Big Pharma can suck my CoQ10.