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.
<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.
I’ve had that feeling too. I was put on a statin maybe 6 years ago. I’m a Type II diabetic and as soon as I went on the drug, my blood glucose shot up to the 400’s and stayed there. I took myself off and the doc tried another statin. This time, the bgs went to about 250. I tried to tell her that my mother can’t take statins, having had the same result. The doc kept telling me there’s no reason diabetics can’t take, indeed, they should all be taking, statins. Apparently my family history, weird as it may be, didn’t mean anything. It was only after the 2nd statin that the doc thought I might know what the eff I was talking about and changed my drugs.
I went off the cholesterol drugs when I went vegan. Everything is fine now and I don’t have to worry about side effects from 20+ years of using these powerful drugs.
And yet half the people who die of heart attacks have normal cholesterol. I would rather live with high cholesterol than blow my liver up with statin drugs.
having been born with a malformed heart they important to me.
a few folks have bad side effects and folks think that means everyone it doesn’t
i have seen folks get quick muscle weakness but many studies show that they are easily tolerated by the vast majority of those who take them...men more than women
niacin is nice but it ain’t pravachol or crestor etc results wise...nor is red yeast etc...
and then some here get on this Drug companies are the enemy rant and sound like Dem talking points...ridiculous for a conservative site
i don’t doubt for a second you did not tolerate them but most do...most folks tolerate Red Bull, I don’t.
most folks tolerate cold meds.....I don’t.
and so forth
that does not mean it’s bad for everyone
this same sort of hysteria killed NSAIDs, DDT, paregoric, second hand smoke epidemics and so on....h.