I spent all sorts of money getting a brain scan after seeing double. They found an old “micro stroke” and were all freaked out about that. The eye doctor checked my eyes - and said “Yeah - your’re getting older, harder to focus - here’s some new glasses.”
My regular doctor asked me why I was taking the heart medicine (something-statin). I told him about the micro-stroke, but he said my blood pressure, cholestrial, etc. was good - and I didn’t need it. “Well - the baby aspirin once a day won’t hurt - but you don’t need the statin.”
I found out later via FR all of the problems with it.
ten years ago, every patient over 35 at our facility seemed to be on a statin. Now? hardly ever see them. Only in cardiac patients.
I’ve read that everyone over fifty can benefit from statins whether they have heart problems or not. It took a while to find a statin whose side effects weren’t brutal for me, but I eventually did and will be taking them for the rest of my life. No biggie.
I was a bit frightened after seeing two people a short distance away who morphed into one as they grew close. So I looked at the chimney on a house behind ours—there were two!
First step, check with our eye doctor. Sure enough she uncovered an astigmatism had increased—never knew I had it. New glasses prescribed. Several years later my eye is back to normal. Sorry about all that money wasted!