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Message: <blockquote data-quote="zand" data-source="post: 582434" data-attributes="member: 85197">I can only speak for myself.  I am anti-statin because I have yet to be convinced that cholesterol has anything to do with heart attacks.  Cholesterol occurs naturally in the body, so why lower it artificially with a drug that can cause muscle weakness and fatigue?  I would only consider taking statins for other reasons if I had no other options left.  I wouldn't totally trust 'research' because it would probably be biased and in favour of the drugs company.  I might however trust anecdotal evidence which most people seem to shun....If a drug doesn't work for the purpose for which it was intended , then recycle it?  Well it has cost a lot of money to produce it, so it can't be wasted, can it?I took Ramipril for a while for very high blood pressure.   I remember the shock I got when I read the side effects.  On the leaflet it said that it could damage kidneys, that's why I asked to change blood pressure tablets.  I had to have blood tests  regularly to check my kidneys whilst taking it.  Perhaps it really does protect kidneys in diabetic patients, I wouldn't know, I wasn't taking it for that reason, I wasn't diabetic then.</blockquote>

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