My stepdad had a quadruple by pass 15 years ago.
He couldnt tolerate any of the statins except rosuvastin. (Cant spell it). He's still fit and healthy and 83. His cholesterol is still high though.
He hasnt developed diabetes.
He exercises and spends 10hours a day in his workshop woodturning, gardening etc.
He's not on any other drugs.
He isnt diabetic though.
He eats small portions, he has never strayed from cream or butter in his diet..he never eats crisps, takeaways, sweets or anything processed like microwave or ready meals. One piece toast with a scrape of butter for breakfast. Regular oily fish every other day. Good meat n veg but no gravy and small portions.. not much bigger than a tea plate. Tea he may have a slice of mums homemade cake or one of her biscuits or 1/2 a banana.
Outward appearances looks physically fit and mentally he is very, very sharp.
Me, I couldnt take any statin as they crippled me.
Well if you don;t like or cant tolerate statins there's now Evolocumab Ta Da.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-39305640
If I do the QRISK2 calculator entering that I do not have T2 my risk is 13.9% but if I enter T2 my risk is 23.5%. This obviously is flawed because my HbA1c is 41 (under diabetic level).
Well if you don;t like or cant tolerate statins there's now Evolocumab Ta Da.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-39305640
Well if you don;t like or cant tolerate statins there's now Evolocumab Ta Da.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-39305640
Please think carefully with statins . My dad was on them for 16 years and couldn't move his left side arm leg and eventually started falling over and having hallucinations bad nightmares kicking out in his sleep . Before Christmas he had low blood pressure and ended up in hospital , they took various medications off him including the statin , within 2 weeks his left side was functional again and his nightmares stopped. He no longer has whole body pain and he is improving daily . Just seems that when he stopped the statins his symptoms were less . Its up to and of course your GP will try to convince you that statins are the greatest thing and do not cause any problems , but thedoctor at the hospital took him off statin for a reason .My GP prescribed me Antorvastatin 20mg along with my Metformin last week - I've only seen negative opinions on statins . Does anyone believe that they work ? My cholesterol was 7 .
there's now Evolocumab Ta Da.
A small piece from the BBC article:
The cost varies, but it is thought to cost the UK's NHS about £2,000 per year per patient where it is already being given to people who do not respond to statins.
This appears immediately after some professor says it will not replace statins, people will still take them. Confused me, why are they giving statins to people who do not respond to them.
Edit: I noticed JohnEGreen's comment about availability after I wrote the next paragraph.
More importantly, does anyone think that the poor old NHS will spend £40 a week just to lower people's cholesterol? Something that arguably a change of lifestyle could change (in most cases). This of course overlooks the whole question of how high or low should total cholesterol be.
I'm amazed at the way the NHS operates, happy to spend £2,000 a year, so an ongoing cost, to bring cholesterol down but someone needing a hernia fixed (private cost £2,700 - BMI, Nuffield Health and Ramsay Health) has to have emergency funding and even then my old mate Mick is still waiting, it seems the private cost is for an op using an epidural, I suppose it keeps the cost down, but he's been told he has to have a general because of the seriousness of his hernia and the fact he might lose a testicle.