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To: TennesseeGirl

I wonder how many people know that statins can cause severe muscle pain. I had reached the point that I wanted to cut off my arms because of the pain before a friend asked me if I was taking cholesterol medicine and advised me to stop. I wish I had never touched that poison.


4 posted on 08/24/2011 1:53:31 PM PDT by madprof98 ("moritur et ridet" - salvianus)
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“... can cause severe muscle pain”

My husband took statins for a short time. He felt like he was “coming down with the flu”. Just a sick, weak feeling. Finally, he used the fish oil pills and his cholesterol is good (and his blood pressure decreased). I know a lot of people feel ill with that type of medicine!


6 posted on 08/24/2011 1:55:47 PM PDT by momtothree
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My neighbor’s knees were killing her. She thought she would be looking at a surgical solution. However, recently, she ran out of her cholesterol medicine and didn’t have the money to get it refilled. In less than a week the knee pain went away!


7 posted on 08/24/2011 1:57:06 PM PDT by TennesseeGirl
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I cut my dose in half and the pain went away.


8 posted on 08/24/2011 1:58:02 PM PDT by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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Yep. I get that reaction from every statin on the market.

Guess what? Niacin works.


9 posted on 08/24/2011 1:58:24 PM PDT by null and void (Day 943 of America's holiday from reality...)
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I wonder how many people know that statins can cause severe muscle pain. I had reached the point that I wanted to cut off my arms because of the pain before a friend asked me if I was taking cholesterol medicine and advised me to stop. I wish I had never touched that poison.

This effects a small group of people that use statins. Doctors advise people who experience these symptoms to stop the drug immediately. There are other drugs/statins that you could take that don't have this side effect for you. Your doctor should have advised you of this when proscribing the medication.

11 posted on 08/24/2011 2:00:32 PM PDT by frogjerk (Today is already the tomorrow which the bad economist yesterday urged us to ignore. - HAZLITT)
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Very common that a sufficient dose of CoQ10 will put a stop to the myalgias and myopathies, as long as the muscle involvement doesn’t involve Rhabdomyolysis (very serious).

For me 100 mg/day of Coenzyme Q10 does the trick. Prior to taking the CoQ10 (which is actually a vitamin), I had the arm pain also. Once during that time I foolishly tried to throw my kids a softball. I ended up down on the grass in intense pain — arm and shoulder. However, taking CoQ10 has completely eliminated that even though I have gone up in statin dosage.

Veggies-related dietary changes for me are pretty much out of the question (unless confined to a padded room!) because I have always been a fast food kid and still am.

Cholesterol and triglycerides well under control with statin and fish oil.


31 posted on 08/24/2011 2:41:57 PM PDT by steve86 (Acerbic by nature, not nurture (Could be worst in 40 years))
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Statins can cause memory loss, and worse, something called Transient Global Amnesia. We took our mother-in-law off her statin meds because she was experiencing dementia. She went from a state of dozin' and droolin' to being able to hold a conversation. Here is a good website by a former NASA doctor who had a bad experience with statins.

http://www.spacedoc.com/transient_global_amnesia.htm

37 posted on 08/24/2011 3:32:37 PM PDT by FrdmLvr (culture, language, borders)
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I took them (zocor) for about 3 months and had total cholesterol levels of < 135, downside was that I would fall while walking for no apparent reason. I stopped taking zocor and now take 2 grams niacin and about 8.5 grams fish oil daily. Never felt better, cholesterol levels <185 and HDL levels have almost doubled. Been doing this for 3 years, and I haven’t fell once.


41 posted on 08/24/2011 4:18:13 PM PDT by GreatMan
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