My wife, God bless her, has spent far too much time on diagnoseyourelfparanoid.com. She's convinced that statins are devastating my memory (please don't tell her I just wasn't listeing to her...), bringing on dimentia, making me drool...I"m not sure what all they're supposed to do to me, but it's bad. Very bad.
Incredulous, she asked, "Are you afraid that if you stop taking them you're going to have a heart attack?"
Bingo.
I get my bloodwork done regularly and all is well with, I believe, the help of a generic pill, the cost of which is negligible. When I was in the midst of the most rigorous exercise program of my life - lifting, running, biking, meditating - it didn't control my numbers as well.
I don't have a cardiologist; I've never needed one, thanyouverymuch, but my GP tells me I'm doing very well with the statins. What were the side effects again? Not to be the objectivist, but not the side effects worried over on internet discussion forums, but the measured, tested, peer reviewed verified side effects? Because the side effects of long-term elevated choleseral - the measured, tested, peer reviewed and verified side effects - are coronary heart disease.
And I don't think diagnoseyourselfparanoid.com has anything on that. Just sayin'...
Seriously. What are these side effects? Why should I not be taking a pill that keeps my good cholesteral up and my bad cholesteral down? Maybe I missed it, but I haven't seen that in this thread.
Tim