[TennesseeGirl]

For anybody that's interested.

[Rennes Templar]

Don’t take these drugs. Many other safe ways to lower cholesterol.

[wendy1946]

Basic reality is that if your blood pressure ever goes to zero, you’ll die. Blood pressure is one of those things I refuse to worry about.

[grame]

I wonder if there is an ‘English version’. But thanks for posting. Plan on bringing this up on my next dr visit. Especially with long term usage history.

[aShepard]

So, I’m on Simvastin!

When will I die? Is there a better drug?

When will the cosine, of the tangent, of the hypotenuse trigger the sinewave of my anal fart to the significant level of -15.2 to +27.3?

Why post this Sh*t?

[antidemoncrat]

Thousands of people, me included, have spent a good portion of their lives working to defend this country from the likes of Communism. I have been taking statins for a long time. I hope this study is saying that my mind will essentially get to the point where I will no longer remember that a bunch of whiney Liberals voted a man into the Presidency that is destroying our Republic.

[Alex Murphy]

Ping to read later.

[Mad Dawg]

I am told by MDs that my personal history with statins is no more frequent than with placebos. But I have taken three statins which have quickly taken away (temporarily) my sense of taste, affected (somewhat less temporarily, but differential diagnosis is hard on this one) my memory, and given a temporary but severe mood disorder resolving into depression, which lingers for months after I quit with the drug. I'll never touch 'em again. These were awful experiences and they scare the crap out of me.

One reason to post this stuff is that I worry about people who didn't have a counselling background and might not be able to articulate what was happening to them, who would start on statins and end up being misdiagnosed as depressed or even as having Alzheimer's -- which is what I was afraid I was getting the first time I took the medication.

A lot of GP or family practice docs not only don't know much about psychiatric disorders, but don't have a lot of insight and are inclined to think that mood disorders just wouldn't be a problem if people just chose to tough them out. They can be looking right at memory loss and depression and not see them.

It was pretty clear that my former doc resented my for being in the small set of people who have neuro- reactions to the drug. And if I hadn't realized something was up and remained on the drugs another couple of weeks, I probably would have tried to off myself, with unpleasant consequences whether I succeeded or failed.

As you can imagine, I have strong feelings about this.

[libh8er]

A close relative of mine is exhibiting Parkinson like symptoms which I believe is from long term use of lipitor (statin). Parkinson’s does not run anywhere in the family, not even in the far extended family. I did some Google searches and it looks like a major investigation is underway to determine if there is a link between statins and Parkinson’s Disease.

[bboop]

Well, you know, I am interested, but there were too many unfamiliar words in there to catch my interest. Can you summarize it for a layman? tx