Daily Mail Statins-front page again!

It's that bloody Jo Wiley again, quoting Professor Sir Rory Collins again.

He said it was common for older people taking statins to suffer aches and pains but trials had shown these were just as common in those not taking the drugs. That is just so much ****, how dare he suggest that my muscle pain was just a sign of me aging. Especially as Merck Pharmaceutical applied for a patent as far back as 1990 for a statin with CoQ10 in it. CoQ10 being an enzyme that helps produce energy for the muscles to use. It's production is affected by taking statins and the result is muscle pain. The patent application actually says "to prevent impending muscle pain". Poor sleep was also a problem, doesn't poor sleep affect your heart? As for brain fog, doesn't look as though I'll ever get to the bottom of that. The good news is I haven't taken them for 7 months, total cholesterol 5.4, OK until they decided to bring the guidelines down AGAIN.

He was also on TV saying that the side effects only affected 1 in thousands, within 30 seconds a GP was saying it affects at least 10% of his patients. I know who I believe, the guy at the coal face. Not an academic whose research is paid for by the manufacturers of statins.

Jo Wiley should read her own paper, it's their March 30th Sunday edition that reported on Professor Collins' research funding.

Yeah just read this DD, hopefully it will reassure some who are considering taking statins or are already taking them, the article is here:

http://www.express.co.uk/life-style...Health-Heart-Doctors-Drug-Final-Seal-Approval

I think people know my opinion on statins !

But if you want to line the pockets of the drugs companies go for it.

Warning: I am not a medical professional so my opinion (and research and reading) counts for nothing.

I think that you have to discuss the pros and cons with your Doctor before you take them. I also think that if you suffer side effects then a decent G.P. will tell you to stop them. If your Dr. tells you that you have to take them because you are a diabetic but does not explain why and does not think that low cholesterol levels don't mean much if you are a diabetic then I would refuse them on the grounds that I have not been offered a satisfactory explanation. I would also ask to see another Doctor to discuss the subject.

There is another aspect that is rarely talked about here, Familial hypercholesterolemia. If your family history includes heart disease then please get checked.

The Silent Killer has no symptoms but causes Heart Disease when you are younger.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/a...l--disease-undiagnosed-thousands-Britons.html

I tried them and the results were crippling pain. Does that mean that everyone will suffer the same? Of course not.

donnellysdogs said:

Just wish the media would back off from publishing. Especially Jo Wiley..


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If you ever watched the Leveson enquiry, especially in the first sessions it was obvious [to me] that all the newspapers do is recycle press releases and make it up. I haven't read a newspaper since.

Even the BBC is starting to make me wince.
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Now Al jazeera ....