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.
On the flipahdeedoodah side, some of us have REALLY AWFUL results with them. I would say various physicians' insistence that I try 4 different statins has cost me a year of compromised productivity, relationships, sleep, etc. And one, now my FORMER GP, was obviously angry at me for my failure to respond as desired to his treatment.
Further, I don't know. It stands to reason that crud building up inside blood vessels would be a bad thing. And reducing that amount of crud to build up certainly seems like a reasonable approach. But there seem to be many unanswered questions, and some people seem impatient with even the asking of the questions. Why do people have such differing responses to cholesterol and cholesterol meds? What are the relationships of cholesterol, inflammation, mood, mental functioning, neurological functioning generally?
We seem to have a very good hammer. It drives nails well in many cases. In other cases it fails, and the failures are of the kind that a lot of physicians would not notice them or would tend to attribute them to other causes.
I cannot convey the fear I still feel when I remember how deeply into trouble I got with my first go 'round with these drugs. I was very close to committing myself to a mental hospital. I was making a cup of coffee and I was going to sit down with the phone book and figure out which hospital would work with my insurance. And that was because suicide was beginning to seem attractive and reasonable.
I invite you to wonder what would have happened had I committed myself. There goes the exercise of my right to keep and bear arms. There goes my credibility in many things.
Also, please think what my wife and child would have gone through had I killed myself. And then wonder with me if ANYONE would have considered that I had been poisoned inadvertently by my physician.
I'm not advocating hysteria, but I think that with the data about bad reactions to statins, the teaching of patients and pharmacists is criminally insufficient. Some kind of caution needs to be provided. And shaking your head and saying, as my doc did, that, I was one of the very few, extremely few, people who have neuro-reactions to these medications doesn't really do the trick for me.