“Am watching this closely as my a1c has been going up lately”
Was on Zocor for several years...got a frozen shoulder, severe leg pains, bottom of feet on fire, “forgetting” to breathe, spasms in throat where I was seriously choking, insomia, high sugar, peeing all night, and worst of all was the inabilility to put a sentence together and loss of volcabulary. Had to stop writing my monthly column for a conservative newspaper. I was positive I had dementia. After a foot doctor, chiropractor, and a reflexologist told me they couldn’t see anything wrong with me, I researched problems with statins online and immediately stopped taking them. Within a week, my brain started working again, pains went away, breathing and choking problems cleared up, sugar went down, and get up only once a night, if that If anyone ever suggests I go back on statins, I’ll hit ‘em, or cuss ‘em good.
I was taking Pravastatin, I had mild memory loss, but my memory has slightly improved when I stopped taking it.
My cholesterol was on the upper side of normal, I’m going to go back to the doctor in a few months after taking myself off of Pravastatin and see where my cholesterol is, I’ve dropped 15 lbs. since I last took it, I think the loss of weight might be a better way of controlling cholesterol levels than taking medicine.
Wow! Thank goodness you did the research on your own!
Good for you! By the sound of things, you saved your own life!
WOW! Scary stuff.
My spouse uses Lopid after trying a few different statins and always having back problems, and tingling in the extremities. So far no major problems except weight loss, and he did need to lose 10-20 lbs. The plus side is his good choleterol has risen, the bad has lowered and his blood sugar has dropped to a high normal range.
Knowing the problems others I know have had with statins, I won’t take them myself. So far so good. Yes my cholesterol is slightly higher then they’d like but heck 15 yrs ago my current levels were considered normal. If necessary I would probably give Lopid a try, so far the results are much more positive then statins.
I do not know the rare side effects of Lopid, but I do think that all the muscle problems are a common side effect of statins.
It costs $685,000/year in statins to prevent one myocardial infarction. 1 out of 3 patients will experience joint and muscle pain sufficient to cause them to stop the drug. About a third of patients referred for hip replacement are there because of a statin. Within a week of stopping the statin, the pain is reduced.
One of the major effects of a statin is an inflammation/swelling of the tendon sheath so you feel pain as the tendon moves.
My reading of the Crestor study was only 1 myocardial infarction was prevented for every 261 patients who took the drug whereas there was one new case of diabetes for every 155 patients taking the drug.