My elderly mother was taking cholesterol-reducing drugs in the latter part of her life. About a year or two before she passed away, a new cancer doctor asked why? He said at 87, what did it matter what her cholesterol levels were. She should eat what she wanted within reason and to throw away those prescriptions. He said he never recommended statins for the elderly as long as they ate reasonably healthy diets.
“My elderly mother was taking cholesterol-reducing drugs in the latter part of her life. About a year or two before she passed away, a new cancer doctor asked why? He said at 87, what did it matter what her cholesterol levels were. She should eat what she wanted within reason and to throw away those prescriptions. He said he never recommended statins for the elderly as long as they ate reasonably healthy diets.”
A long time ago my wife’s mother visited us and was having problems walking and sleeping with severe hip pain. She was on her mid-late 70’s and was on a statin because her FP back home, felt that she should be. Her mother and grandmother lived until their late 80’s and early 90’s w/o statins.
My wife was our PC’s office RN, and they discussed dcing her mother’s statin. He suggested that she stay with us for an extra month.
They ran lab tests before and 3 weeks after DCing the statin.
She could eat whatever she wanted from my wife’s Mediteranen
diet.
So she went off the statin. In less than 5 days’ and nights her hip pain was gone and her new non steroid was DCed.
Her statin levels went down a little, she could care less.
She lived about 10+ more years without hip pain and no statins.