i take zetia
I’m on Ezetimide and Atorvastatin for what it’s worth.
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folks could eat clean healthy food and exercise to avoid the problem altogether.
Nah. Don’t promote that idea.
Pharma gotta make Bank.
AND! Pay Off the Media with billions of Ad Dollars so they don’t criticize Big Pharma.
2 comments: No, three
1) Any drug combo needs careful study. I am not critical, just watch out for the $age mix. E.g., inflammation treatment via chondroitin combined with glucosamine is mixed ‘cause The %age has to be right. If one test is with 90-10 its results cannot be compared with a 20-80 test. I use both and after waiting the necessary 4-6 months the improvement is staggering. I am without general arthritis pain.
2) A drug that can dissolve clogs needs very careful study. If it slowly stripes off the upper/exposed layer, fine. OTOHand, if the entire clog comes off you will stroke out.
3) I still maintain the Canadian study of years past is telling. It is not the clog that kills. It is the inflammation under the clog. That inflammation forces the vein/artery closed. The inflammation is because of bacteria infection under the clog. Anti-biotics have a tough time getting to them. The alternative is the starve the buggies of the iron they need to live. The iron is from iron-enriched food — like bread. Quit taking vitamins with iron and cut out iron enriched foods where you can. The swelling will stop.
Don’t do it. I was put on Zocor and Zetia which degraded the myelin sheath so badly that I couldn’t put two words together. I couldn’t get words out of my mouth. Fortunately I was able to figure out what was causing my problem and quit the med. My doctor got mad at me and I found another doctor. How many individuals being treated for Alzheimers had been taking statins?
I’ve been on a statin and ezetimibe for a couple of years now.
My last bloodwork had my HDL at 48, LDL at 60, Triglycerides at 107, and total Cholesterol at 129.
I had a stent put in in 2011, and so far so good...
I had 2, 100% and 2, 80% blockages, should I not have had a 4 way bypass and taken these drugs instead? I ask because when the Dr showed me my arteries on the screen he showed me how my blocked arteries had already made complimentary bypass arteries. In other words the arteries were re-routing themselves around the blockages. I wondered at the time, “why do I need surgery” if the arteries were regrowing themselves around the blockage.
Do your own research before taking any drug, please. E.g., Here’s an easy read on the “benefits” of statins: https://theconversation.com/benefits-of-statins-may-have-been-overstated-new-study-175557
Do your own research before taking any drug, please. E.g., Here’s an easy read on the “benefits” of statins: https://theconversation.com/benefits-of-statins-may-have-been-overstated-new-study-175557
You are still gonna die, and statins make your legs weak and crampy.
I recently learned that some statins are hydrophilic, while others are lipophilic. If you have a particular statin concern, you might want to look up the difference.
BKMRK.
Doc prescribed Atorvastatin for me. Two weeks of every muscle and joint in my body hurting. No more, I chew up a baby aspirin every morning. I hope it helps people, but that stuff was poison in my body.
I have read that statins can cause liver problems as evidenced by elevated levels of enzymes ALT and AST.
The entire cholesterol hoax is bull crap but a massive money maker for big pharma.
No such thing as bad cholesterol. They’ve lied to us about cholesterol for many decades. Cholesterol has nothing, zero to do with plaque and clogged arteries. Insulin resistance causes it. Statins, the most prescribed drug, are horrible, leading cause of dementia. Much new research is being done in this area. The big cholesterol lie started with Eisenhower’s heart attack, which spawned the Framingham study. Healthy people should have very high cholesterol. I’ve been on the carnivore diet for 2 years now, and my cholesterol is through the roof. Doctors are almost ALL quacks who want us all on statins.
Several treatment guidelines recommend adding ezetimibe in select high risk persons in whom LDL goals cannot be achieved by maximally tolerated statin alone.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezetimibe
Oh, what the hell..I’ve made it to 80 - maybe this’ll help me make it to 81.
I’ve been on Ezetimibe and Atorvastatin for many years. Cholesterol numbers are normal.