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pain and statins

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I have been browsing on this site and was saddened to see statins advised for all over 50 years old. A certain number of users will get horrendous muscular pain, as I do. This masked any chance I had of doing cancer breast testing - and I showed up positive at my last mammogram. So yet another nasty problem with these drugs.

I have had my treatments for early breast cancer. The amazing outcome is that something odd went on during my second anaesthesia . When I came round fully I was in excruciating pain and actually needed a week on a strong pain killer, but then my long standing statin pains left me and I enjoyed a WALKING holiday. BUT I then had a similar reaction to the long term medication to suppress the cancer, recognised the symptoms and gave them up. Made me think - is it the drug OR what the drug is carried in ???
 
Hi

Sorry to hear of your bad experience of statins. Did you try different statins? I am fortunate that the 2 different statins I have been on have had no side effects and did wonders for my cholesterol level.

Regards

Doug
 
To my knowledge I concur with Doug and have respectable levels - I am on 1 x 10mg Simvastatin at night - hope this helps
 
Hi. Whilst statins are OK for most people for some they cause muscle degeneration with pain and should be stopped (see the leaflet); discuss this with your GP. Sometimes changing the statin type will help but I suggest any statin that causes muscle pain or liver problems should be stopped.
 
I was prescribed every statin in the dispensary over a period of about three years. I was crippled on and off and could not get out of the armchair for a month each time it happened. I had to rehabilitate myself each time by seeing how far I could walk each day. I can remember my pleasure when I managed 100yds. I am an ex golfer and also used to walk dogs for miles.

While taking the last statin I had a big job to do felling trees and decided to go to the nurse when I had finished. By the time I got there I was almost rigid, my shoulders glowed and I could not rotate my head. I was sent to the physio but all they really needed to do was take me off the tablets.

I am now not prescribed statins due to my severe reaction to them.

My opinion might be biased but I think they are dangerous.
 
I do not really think that statins are dangerous. I was part of the ASCOT study which looked at the effectiveness of statins over about 6 years. That arm of the study was closed earlier than expected as the statins were so good at cholesterol lowering. True there are those that have a reaction to them to some degree but that is often an issue with a lot of medications. I have an allergy to tetanus vaccine but I would not call tetanus vaccine dangerous.

Regards

Doug
 
I understand that statins lower cholesterol in many people without side effects but there are some of us not so fortunate. I identify more with this quote.

"People on long-term statin therapy start to notice that their hair is receding faster, they're developing cataracts, they can't hear as well as they used to, they keep forgetting things, they can't open the pickle jar any more, and perhaps they'll need rotator cuff surgery soon, as their shoulders are so sore. They think it's just because they're growing old, but these are all side effects that my research, together with my students at MIT, has uncovered, by comparing statin drug side effects with side effects associated with other drugs in age-matched reviews."

Although I have not noticed the hair and cateracts the rest of it rings a bell. As I said in an earlier post I ended up with the physio over the shoulder problem and the legs are still not as they were.

I got this quote from the following site.

http://www.spacedoc.com/why_statins_do_ ... _than_good
 
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