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<blockquote data-quote="DavidGrahamJones" data-source="post: 1412726" data-attributes="member: 245335"><p>If there's one thing statins do, it's lower your cholesterol just like it says on the tin (well box really).</p><p></p><p>Should anyone take them? $64,000 question if ever there was one. I wouldn't even attempt to make a recommendation although I stopped because of the side effects, that was after 17 years of aching muscles, brain fog and appalling sleep problems and my very low levels of CoQ10 may very well be as a result, I'll never know. The side effects are less but not totally gone.</p><p></p><p>I was lucky in that lowering my carbs to about 40gms a day (exclude the obvious carbs) lowered my BG AND total cholesterol to about 3, it gave me the confidence to stop taking them and after 3 years my total cholesterol has still only risen to 4 (as of last December).</p><p></p><p>It's a very personal decision so maybe try them and if you experience muscle pain make sure your GP knows about it and if he says try another one, don't be fooled, a statin is a statin although I think dosage has an effect. You will already have noted that some have no problems that they know of at all, while others will have problems with muscle pain, brain fog and sleep, and they are the three side effects that the NHS list.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DavidGrahamJones, post: 1412726, member: 245335"] If there's one thing statins do, it's lower your cholesterol just like it says on the tin (well box really). Should anyone take them? $64,000 question if ever there was one. I wouldn't even attempt to make a recommendation although I stopped because of the side effects, that was after 17 years of aching muscles, brain fog and appalling sleep problems and my very low levels of CoQ10 may very well be as a result, I'll never know. The side effects are less but not totally gone. I was lucky in that lowering my carbs to about 40gms a day (exclude the obvious carbs) lowered my BG AND total cholesterol to about 3, it gave me the confidence to stop taking them and after 3 years my total cholesterol has still only risen to 4 (as of last December). It's a very personal decision so maybe try them and if you experience muscle pain make sure your GP knows about it and if he says try another one, don't be fooled, a statin is a statin although I think dosage has an effect. You will already have noted that some have no problems that they know of at all, while others will have problems with muscle pain, brain fog and sleep, and they are the three side effects that the NHS list. [/QUOTE]
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