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Treatments: Are you taking statins?
the alternative to statins ?? when a tablet trys changing your body to stop doing what it knows best/ it maybe ok for some.. no matter what this tablet your taking to lower your cholestrol it will about still have side affects.. i e the same has statins if you read the notes that come with them.. like i have said ive taken 4 diffrent statins and all give me loss of memeory ..fatige and musle cramps.. since i stopped taking them im fit as a fiddle and swim 30 to 40 lenth and other things.. im at the jym monday, tuesday swim.. wednsday jym.. thursday swim friday jym.. saturday swimm.. taking statins would of been monday pain in my legs feeling ill cant walk..staying on the setee. tuesday the same so on so on... i wonder which one i should pick mmmmmmmmmmmmm hard choice... which one would you pick phil. if you was in my shoes?? ive asked the doctor what you are talking about ..there no where near has good as statins, if so they would be used more than statins..think about it.. even the doctor told me about it. and they to have there affects.. also remember phil a 10 year studie has not come out about statins in this counrty yet.. like the states. and canada.. and the 43 million payout to statin takers who are now disabled.. though long taking of statins the doctors will tell you they have there downsides.. ie maybe people are ok on them, but years and years of taking of this lowing cholestrol drugs statins.. some will not know the cost of taking them..and for your alterative to statins..them tablets may lower your cholestrol but how far is another matter. but your not going to live for ever anyway.. and im sure im not going to spend what i have left walking with a stick.and in pain..fancy a 30 to 40 lenth swim phil...
Terry , we all have to do what we think is best . All I know I use Ezetrol and my Cholesterol is 5.1 and my HDL - LDL ratio is good . Before statins it was 8.5 and after statins 4.6 .It isnt as good as Statins but my partner and her brother in law feel a lot better taking it than statins . We have just got back from an hours game of badminton and i swm daily having retired at 62 .
I want to be around to see my 13 year daughter married so I will put up with the side effects if it will help keep me alive , but as I said it is a personal decision we all have to make
your right mine was 3.5 on statins without 5.0..thats before i stared to go to the jym and swim. like you say we all have our own thing.. but i think you know how many people are not taking statins now because of there health and how they feel.. im fine with only taking my asprin..
Hi Terry and well done you, you certainly seem to have got the whole thing under control. I am also on beta blockers, blood pressure tabs, blood thinners 2 no including aspirin and of course the dreaded statins. As I felt so much better when I stopped the statins I am pretty sure the other tablets are not giving me any side effects but as I said without the statins my cholesterol levels just went sky high so quickly. I am awaiting an appointment with a specialist at the hospital that the doctor I am under said he would be arranging, who apparently deals with people who cannot take statins due to really bad side effects. What other answers to statins there are I really do not have a clue but after my appointment (dont know how long I will have to wait) I will post and tell what was suggested.
As far as the Co Q10 are concerned as I say they have definitely helped and I was very interested to read your comments about them having to be given out by law in th US and Canada... I bought mine on line from Nature's Best......90 no. 100 mg tablets for £22.....free postage so I figured approx £7 per month to not have anywhere near as many aches and pains was worth the investment.....and it would give me a 3 month trial to see if they worked.
Like you I also gave up smoking on 1st January about 3 weeks before I had my stent inserted.....fortunately I have not put on any weight which I thought would happen but have been exercising more so perhaps one counteracted the other.
Could not agree with you more on your final comments though Terry its the quality not the quantity and I like you am just trying out alternatives before deciding exactly what I feel would be best with regarding to going onwards.
Best wishes to you
Jenny
Fatbob,
I think you will find that memory loss, as well as raised blood sugar levels, are now a recognised side efects of statins.
Read this.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/28/us-fda-statins-idUSTRE81R1O220120228
Skittler
Fatbob,
You're welcome, I have done a lot of reading about things involved with heart problems since my CABG and also my daughter has arythmia, so I like to know what's going on and why.
I've been on a two week trial off statins and I feel so much better, my muscles work, no aches and pains and my memory is so much better. Yes I know that memory is supposed to get worse as we age, but, as I read recently, that is mainly because as we age we have far more to remember. Even your computer slows the more you give it to do, it clogs its memory, but mine is pretty good, as is Daphne on Eggheads, so I think statins are responsible for a lot of the memory problems in heart patients.
It will be really good if they can find a substitute without all the side effects.
Cheers
Hi
just skimmed through all this thread and I like most on here are taking the normal 10 to 12 tablets a day and I have been for almost 2 years now.
My side effects which I was not going to mention till I saw other have it is... memory loss not completely I just struggle with names and loose words that you need to make your sentance. I also have lowered interest in replying to some conversations. I also feel very much more emotional than I ever did before the heart attack. I also feel tired quite regularly.
I am not complaining one bit. Almost 2 years later I am lucky.
Me...49 now, no longer on the 40 cigs a day, cholesterol now 2.7. Use to do loads of excersise but now struggling!!!
Need to get back on that Tread Mill!
Keep poping the pills :)
As I have said previously there is an alternative to statins which the doctor can prescribe .
http://www.netdoctor.co.uk/heart-and-blood/medicines/ezetrol.html
I couldn't tolerate Statins so I am now on this drug , as is my partner and her Brother in Law . Just to stop taking medication is not a good thing if you have Familial Hypercholesterolaemia.
Exercise will lower your cholesterol and improve the HDL - LDL ratio ,and diet will reduce it by about 10- 15 % but it will not make a huge difference if you have very high cholesterol