Thanks for the info and reply. I am getting rid of all high carb products in our kitchen as I type. Sugar, cake mixes, cookies, pasta, etc. Lipitor is a statin that my cardiologist prescribed. I took it for about a year before I started having leg cramps, feeling tired, panic attacks,and foggy headed. I did a little research on Lipitor and found many people had the same symptoms. Stopped taking it, and after two weeks, I felt like a new person. Going to be a struggle, but giving up those carbs beats lying in a casket. Thanks again.
“Lipitor is a statin that my cardiologist prescribed. I took it for about a year before I started having leg cramps, feeling tired, panic attacks,and foggy headed. I did a little research on Lipitor and found many people had the same symptoms. Stopped taking it, and after two weeks, I felt like a new person.”
Personally, I think statins are a REALLY bad idea. First, a side-effect of statins is to inhibit the liver enzyme that is responsible for the synthesis of CoQ-10, and ironically, the heart needs CoQ-10 more than any other organ, so statins potentially are damaging to the heart in my opinion.
Second, cholesterol is ESSENTIAL for bodily function. First, it’s the starting material for the synthesis of almost every hormone in the body, and second, cholesterol is absolutely essential for proper functioning of cell membranes. The brain is also a HEAVY user of cholesterol, which is why people get brain-fogged from statins. Bottom line, we would quickly die without cholesterol, and aggressively removing the ability of the body to manufacture this essential material is completely insane.
BTW, I quickly got ALL of the same symptoms you did with statins decades ago and quit pronto. My sister had the same problem.