Know anyone who developed Parkinson’s after being put on statins?
Statin Use Linked to Increased Parkinson’s Risk - Medscape
www.medscape.com/viewarticle/870996
Oct 26, 2016 - BALTIMORE — New findings from a large national claims database show the use of cholesterol-lowering statin drugs to be associated with an increased risk for Parkinson’s disease (PD), contrary to previous research suggesting the drugs have a protective effect for PD.
Father has been on statins for 30 years. He developed Parkinson’s about fifteen to twenty years later. The doctors never took him off. I finally insisted. The Statin sales people are fierce. Its hard to find a doctor that won’t push them even with cholesterol under 200. Sometimes the doctor will admit that he has to proscribe them but you don’t have to fill the prescription.
He has been living with the Parkinson’s for 13 years. It stopped getting worse after he stopped the statins. But now he is in his 80’s the disease had dominated his life.