Update, and a quick recap....
Atorvastatin (which I had been on for years), swapped for rosuvastatin, which didn't seem to help - I was still waking in the middle of the night, suffering intense panic/anxiety attacks, feeling hot, then cold, then too hot, a feeling of dieing, all lasting for hours - I call them, 'my episodes'. Doc then prescribed ezetimibe, as an alternative to the statins, which I have continued to take ever since.
Every doc I have spoken to, has discounted statins, as the potential cause of the panic attacks, but since stopping taking statins, the episodes have gradually declined in intensity, and duration. Another side effect, which I wasn't aware of perhaps being due to taking the statins, is my energy levels improving since my stopping taking them. On statins, I welcomed being able to just collapse on the stair-lift, and ride up and down. I'm now back to walking up and down, ignoring the lift.
A while ago, I began actually logging the panic attacks, trying to describe how I felt during them, times and date. During one such all night attack, I rang 101, who decided to get an ambulance out to me, who decided it might be an heart issue, got me into A&E. The docs in A&E, reassuringly, found nothing amiss at all.
I presented a copy of my up-to-date log, to the renal specialist, to if they might offer an opinion on the episodes. They thought at first, they might be due to anxiety, over the forthcoming op for the dialysis catheter operation, but I quickly discounted that, as the episodes had begun months before the mention of the op.
My state now is, the episodes, the intensity, how long they last, are in rapid decline. I am also feeling much fitter, very much more able.
Atorvastatin (which I had been on for years), swapped for rosuvastatin, which didn't seem to help - I was still waking in the middle of the night, suffering intense panic/anxiety attacks, feeling hot, then cold, then too hot, a feeling of dieing, all lasting for hours - I call them, 'my episodes'. Doc then prescribed ezetimibe, as an alternative to the statins, which I have continued to take ever since.
Every doc I have spoken to, has discounted statins, as the potential cause of the panic attacks, but since stopping taking statins, the episodes have gradually declined in intensity, and duration. Another side effect, which I wasn't aware of perhaps being due to taking the statins, is my energy levels improving since my stopping taking them. On statins, I welcomed being able to just collapse on the stair-lift, and ride up and down. I'm now back to walking up and down, ignoring the lift.
A while ago, I began actually logging the panic attacks, trying to describe how I felt during them, times and date. During one such all night attack, I rang 101, who decided to get an ambulance out to me, who decided it might be an heart issue, got me into A&E. The docs in A&E, reassuringly, found nothing amiss at all.
I presented a copy of my up-to-date log, to the renal specialist, to if they might offer an opinion on the episodes. They thought at first, they might be due to anxiety, over the forthcoming op for the dialysis catheter operation, but I quickly discounted that, as the episodes had begun months before the mention of the op.
My state now is, the episodes, the intensity, how long they last, are in rapid decline. I am also feeling much fitter, very much more able.
