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.
Thanks of the feedback. Sorry to hear about your father and PD.
We have seen an epidemic of PD with people we know, in laws and other people,
There have been all types of searches to why the epidemic of PD across the ethnic spectrum, sexes and middle to upper income.
The answer may be the #1 Rx ed family of drugs, the statins.
I am alerting our relatives and friends with PD to consider going off the statins. Also, if a blood relative has PD, other relatives might want to consider DC ing a statin or not going on it.