What 'hype'?
Statins
- Thread starter Harry Bloomfield
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Living longer, not dropping dead in the street after only 2 yrs of retirement.....................that sort of "hype"
The aching arms, are one of the symptoms I get, when I suffer the 'worrying episodes'. My arms weirdly feel terrifically heavy, like Popeye arms. I'm still suffering the waking from very convincing dreams, and they dwell for a few minutes after waking, though not it seems nightmares now. I've woken several times, with odd ideas in my head, even waking Av talking about them, once I am awake....
My back, has been giving me some grief this week, so I been making good use of an Iphone sized tens machine on it. Decades ago, I bought a shoebox sized machine, long since disposed of. I woke in the early hours of last week, dreaming I was using that old machine in bed, on my back, and the leads had come off. I woke up, and woke Av up, searching the bed, and under the bed, for those leads to reconnect them, until I realised it had been another dream. It was never normal for me, to suffer dreams lasting, beyond my waking, before taking the statins.
I'm guessing, the effects of the statins, are still lingering in my system, but at least they are just dreams now, rather than the nightmares I was suffering.
Might it be worth, you asking your doc, if you can go on a three-month trial of ezetimibe, in place of the statins?
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Nope. No need to go vegetarian either...
Go check again, diet can make a change but it requires a massive lifestyle change (not just changing from butter to margarine) and is about half as effective as medication.
I think I linked to a study on this earlier in the thread
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I agree but, not necessarily vegetarian...go look at some articles..
I'm not sure of your point, even with massive lifestyle changes the video posted earlier only managed to get their cholesterol down to borderline numbers. He then went opinion shopping until he found a doctor who gave him the answer he liked.
People have studied how well lifestyle changes work.
Effectiveness of altering serum cholesterol levels without drugs - PMC
Drug therapy with statins and other agents can result in dramatic lipidlowering effects. Despite the wealth of data supporting the beneficial effects of pharmacologic therapy on cardiovascular risk, patients often express a desire to accomplish ...pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
In short: Exercise heavily, lose weight if you're fat, switch to a fish and plant based diet and you might manage a 30% reduction. Everyone should do that, but lifestyle changes like that are really hard and nearly always fail, you need Olympic athlete levels of mental dedication. Statins aim for 30-50% by taking a very cheap pill.
