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<blockquote data-quote="DavidGrahamJones" data-source="post: 1832609" data-attributes="member: 245335"><p>Some good questions.</p><p>As you can imagine, the topic is huge. There has been so much written about statins:</p><p></p><p>The Great Cholesterol Myth</p><p>What you must know about statin drugs and their natural alternatives</p><p>The great cholesterol con</p><p>The great cholesterol myth</p><p>The Truth About Statins: Risks and Alternatives to Cholesterol-Lowering Drugs</p><p>How statin drugs lower your cholesterol . . . and kill you one cell at a time</p><p>The statin damage crisis</p><p>Poisoned, recovery from statin side effects</p><p>Fat and cholesterol don't cause heart attacks</p><p></p><p>I have read some of these and consequently my experience of the topic is that I just got confused because my GP was saying one thing and what I read said something different and my personal experience matched what I was reading.</p><p></p><p>I would never have questioned the advice of my GP had it not been for the serious side effects of taking Rosiglitazone and the physical side effects of Simvastatin and Atorvastatin that my GP put down to something different every time I mentioned my leg muscle pain, brain fog and poor sleep (all side effects recognised by the NHS). I should mention that it doesn't affect everyone the same way, I know people who have no side effects whatsoever, none that they recognise anyway.</p><p></p><p>So, I was advised to take statins for 17 years, it did lower my total cholesterol and it also gave me a lot of leg muscle pain. I eventually discovered that it was the fact that statins prevent the uptake of CoQ10 that was causing two of the problems and had actully been documented by Merk Pharmaceutical in it's 1990 patent application to add CoQ10 to the statin "to prevent the imminent muscle pain" quoted almost word for word from the patent application.</p><p></p><p>I stopped taking them because after reducing my carb intake, also against my GP's advice, my total cholesterol dropped so much that I felt confident in throwing them away, along with Gliclazide and Januvia and avoiding "progressing" onto insulin. Mt total cholesterol is still only 3.9.</p><p></p><p>Perhaps your GP can explain this graph. Seems that Cardio Vascular events increase when total cholesterol is above 5.4 . . . . and below 5.4. Produced by the British Heart Foundation and the World Health Organisation, it's interesting.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DavidGrahamJones, post: 1832609, member: 245335"] Some good questions. As you can imagine, the topic is huge. There has been so much written about statins: The Great Cholesterol Myth What you must know about statin drugs and their natural alternatives The great cholesterol con The great cholesterol myth The Truth About Statins: Risks and Alternatives to Cholesterol-Lowering Drugs How statin drugs lower your cholesterol . . . and kill you one cell at a time The statin damage crisis Poisoned, recovery from statin side effects Fat and cholesterol don't cause heart attacks I have read some of these and consequently my experience of the topic is that I just got confused because my GP was saying one thing and what I read said something different and my personal experience matched what I was reading. I would never have questioned the advice of my GP had it not been for the serious side effects of taking Rosiglitazone and the physical side effects of Simvastatin and Atorvastatin that my GP put down to something different every time I mentioned my leg muscle pain, brain fog and poor sleep (all side effects recognised by the NHS). I should mention that it doesn't affect everyone the same way, I know people who have no side effects whatsoever, none that they recognise anyway. So, I was advised to take statins for 17 years, it did lower my total cholesterol and it also gave me a lot of leg muscle pain. I eventually discovered that it was the fact that statins prevent the uptake of CoQ10 that was causing two of the problems and had actully been documented by Merk Pharmaceutical in it's 1990 patent application to add CoQ10 to the statin "to prevent the imminent muscle pain" quoted almost word for word from the patent application. I stopped taking them because after reducing my carb intake, also against my GP's advice, my total cholesterol dropped so much that I felt confident in throwing them away, along with Gliclazide and Januvia and avoiding "progressing" onto insulin. Mt total cholesterol is still only 3.9. Perhaps your GP can explain this graph. Seems that Cardio Vascular events increase when total cholesterol is above 5.4 . . . . and below 5.4. Produced by the British Heart Foundation and the World Health Organisation, it's interesting. [/QUOTE]
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