Really?
Then why take them at all?
Except for the risk of stroke after stopping a blood-thinner suddenly. I know someone who was ordered to stop taking Eliquis ‘cold-turkey’ by a doctor. He had a stroke within 48 hours and died of a clot in his brain stem.
“Then why take them at all?”
That would be a long-term risk.
The doctors should have said, “There is extremely low risk to stopping these drugs.”
Many interactions are caused by the fact that several medications are metabolized by the same enzymes in the body. Introducing a second drug which depends upon a given enzyme reduces the level of enzyme available for metabolizing the first drug.
Failure to be metabolized and removed from the body can cause the dosage in the blood to increase as if a higher amount of the drug had been taken.
My wife was recently given Paxlovid. Her blood pressure medication was reduced to one half the usual amount. Due to the expected slowing of the metabolizing of the blood pressure medication, it was expected that the level in her blood would increase maintaining the effectiveness of the drug.
I was considered for Paxlovid but wasn’t prescribed because I take a complicated array of drugs and that made management in the presence of Paxlovid too uncertain. If I had had more symptoms of Covid the decision might have been different.
Crestor is to prevent early heart attack maybe due to high cholesterol.
Joe is either in his 80’s or close to them. So he is past the age for an early heart attack. Taking a Statin/Crestor at his age or my age is not really a wise move.
You are never too old to have a stroke. I’m on Eliquis 2x a day, and I don’t like not taking it. Strokes contributed to the death of my maternal granddad and his daughter, my mother.