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Originally Posted by Princess Doreen
Thanks for that info, IC. I'll talk to my GP about this. My husband and I are both on statins. We had some muscle soreness which was alarming. But we take Co-Enzyme Q-10 - Bill taks 300 mgs. and I take 200 mgs. Muscle aches are gone. But, I don't necessarily like statins - just thought they were a necessary damned if you do, damned if you don't alternative. My GP tried me on some fiber type pills. They were the size of suppositories, and I had to take four of them a day. That wore thin after awhile, and they weren't doing anything to lower my #s.
Right now, I'm at 162 cholesterol with 89 HDLs and 68 LDLs. Triglycerides are under 100. So, I'm cool for now. But, if I could find something that would work as well and not a statin, that would be great.
Having a stroke is scary and I was a basket case for about 6 mos. afterwards. 2008 was a really bad, bad year - a stroke, 3 kidney stones, 2 bouts with pneumonia, a broken ankle, a back injury, a ruptured gall bladder, peritonitis, flirted with the angels, then surgery spending 3 weeks in Saratoga hospital where I missed Curlin's run in the Woodward. That was the WORSE part. 
But I'll take another 2009 in 2010. It was a totally awesome year. So far, this year is going good, too - Rachel, Scott Brown, and now Lloydobler.  |
Statins kill far more people than they help. If you want to lower cholesterol naturally, try a red yeast rice supplement. They've been PROVEN to be more effective than any statin at lowering cholesterol without the liver destroying side effects you are currently receiving. Your doctor will almost certainly know nothing about it, since as a natural substance, the pharma companies cannot patent it and thus make criminally high profit margins on it.
Use Google to do a little research.
By the way, the reason most people have high cholesterol is because your body uses it to make hormones, repair certain types of tissue, etc. It's a very useful building block that has become demonized as a culprit in heart disease. In actuality, the repercussions from not having elevated cholesterol as a response to a serious condition is much worse than having it elevated.
Within twenty years this whole statin thing to lower cholesterol practice will be looked back at like "what was everyone thinking back then?"
Here come the flames.