Hi
Put on statins 20mg 9 yrs ago, when my levels were good, but because I was diabetic. I lost 9 years of my life to this drug, and you can look at my comments on other posts for the details.
When I came off them I went on to plant sterol tablets, mega dose vitamin C 3000mcg each and every day, heart margarine (best not mention name) and have done nothing else different than previously. I had a blood test done after 3 months and my reading had only gone up to 3.5 from 3.
When I stopped the simvapoison I thought for two weeks I was having heart attacks everyday. I even wrote my husband a letter to read if I died. I spoke to my GP and he said coming off them would not have given pain like this, however, I have read in other websites that he was wrong, and people coming off them can have heart pain fro 2 weeks.
I really thought I was going to die when I was on simvapoison, I thank my lucky stars everyday on the rearch I did on the internet and now 95% of my life has been given back to me.
Research thoroughly and make your own decisions based on your lifestyle, your genetics, your family history and your readings. Vitamin C is useful to research, as they reckon the dosage recommended on labels is way under what we should be having, and we actually need at least 3000 mcg not 60 mcg. They reckon Vit C elasticates arteries.
You have to make your own choice, based upon your life, and research. The Daily Mail often has interesting articles to read on side effects of statins too, but just remember that GP's also get paid for prescribing statins.
