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Message: <blockquote data-quote="forty six" data-source="post: 509384" data-attributes="member: 72202">Last week the health section of the Daily Mail contained a scathing report on NICE, statins and the new POLYPILL. The most interesting thing for me is that out of the 12 panel members of NICE 8 of them have now declared links with the major drugs companies that produce diabetic related drugs. This is information that I have been trying to extract from NICE since December, with the phone being cut off on many occasions.Our GP's are being controlled by these companies now as they are actively discouraged from offering their patients alternatives to medications or reporting the side effects that we are daily reporting to them. I have had many discussions with my GP following my diagnosis last November. I do not trust anything I am told. Not one word that comes out of a GP's mouth on this subject is unbiased. Their salaries now depend on towing the line and if this harms patients then it is down to us to prove it. They are told 'just give them a pill and send them away'.I have now told a GP in my practice that I am no longer taking Simvastatin. He said that it was a bad idea as it saved lives, I pointed out the research published in The Lancet (the medical professions own publication) that stated statins have absolutely no benefit to anyone over the age of 69 - 70 and should not be given to women full stop as it can have a detrimental effect on hormone levels whilst going through the menopause. He told me that all research had concluded that statins were safe and had no side effects. I asked him who paid for this research and he declined to answer. Well we all know who paid for it, the companies who make it and who are in the pockets of NICE. This report also concluded that unless you had already had a heart attack or stroke there was no benefit in taking a statin.When I discussed my diabetes with my GP in November and complained that she was prescribing tablets that I knew had bad side effects for others in my family, I was told that if she didn't do it 'in the right order' she would be audited and would get in trouble. I commented that pen pushers in Whitehall should not be able to tell GP's what to prescribe and she said: 'Welcome to my world'I urge every one to really look into the drugs they are taking and check what the side effects are. The next one to pop up in surgeries across the country will be the POLYPILL. This is a combination of 3 blood pressure medications and a statin. How sneaky can you get? You will be taking a statin and not know it until you have to take pain killers every couple of hours. I have gone on about this for long enough but a I really don't think we examine the facts and figures closely enough as patients. We are all too ready and willing to accept what we are being told as 'they know what they are doing'. Clearly this is not true. One researcher in South Africa has now gone on record as saying that blaming saturated fat for high cholesterol and heart disease is probably the biggest medical error ever known and that the ramifications will be felt for decades.Try reading: The Cholesterol Con by Dr Malcolm Kendrick - an eye opener.</blockquote>

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