Ahhhh my doctors favorite. I refuse to take it. The marketing hype scares me to death.
Prescribing statins is becoming the standard of care for many patient demographic groups. Your free to decline a prescription. Your doc will be certain to make a note about your refusal.
I looked at the chemical structure of the six statins which were available when Baycol was still on the market. Suffice it to say the structural variation that I saw was quite surprising.
My husband is on Lipitor -- someone at work told him Crestor was better -- when he asked his cardiologist about it, the doctor said that Crestor, in his experience, was not as good a drug for that purpose as Lipitor. He obviously didn't want to prescribe it.
Carolyn
Re: Crestor - everyone I know who has been on a low carb diet has lowered total cholesterol & "bad" cholesterol and raised good cholesterol. FWIW.