BS: Statins: Your Experience

Subject: RE: BS: Statins: Your Experience
From: kendall
Date: 26 Oct 10 - 08:31 PM

Gemfibrozil and simvastatin work for me.
I don't know about fish oil, fish don't live very long you know.

Subject: RE: BS: Statins: Your Experience
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 Oct 10 - 04:23 PM

I'm with Donuel.

Subject: RE: BS: Statins: Your Experience
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Oct 10 - 03:57 PM

Lipitor. I am always asked if I have any muscle aches (side effect) and I always say too many to speak of.

I can even eat KFC with no harm now. Good stuff, Lipitor that is.

Subject: RE: BS: Statins: Your Experience
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 26 Oct 10 - 02:11 PM

lovostatin, 10 MG, no side effects that I know of. small pill, easy to take.

Subject: RE: BS: Statins: Your Experience
From: GUEST,Alan Whittle
Date: 26 Oct 10 - 02:02 PM

Simvastatin the doc said if I had it and a few other drugs, I wouldn't die in the neat future. I'm not dead yet.

one of my pothead friends said, do any of these drugs give you any pleasure?

I said, that's not the deal. all that happens - is (with abit of luck) you don't die. you don't take the drugs - you're dead.

Subject: RE: BS: Statins: Your Experience
From: olddude
Date: 26 Oct 10 - 01:53 PM

Fish oil, works great

Subject: RE: BS: Statins: Your Experience
From: wysiwyg
Date: 26 Oct 10 - 01:50 PM

Great info, and yes we are on low-fat, high-fiber, right-sugars, and exercise, plus fish oil. I don't need advice, exactly-- mostly a sampling of brands, dosages, and side effects if any. So-- all the details above are PERFECT as far as "what do I want to know."

Tomorrow I request statins.

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Statins: Your Experience
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 26 Oct 10 - 01:46 PM

Hmmm, I'm taking it. My Doctor says that I don't have high cholesterol. But that it is a little higher than she would like because of diabetes and blood pressure.

It is a 10 dollars for 90 days generic prescription, so it can't hurt, I guess.

Subject: RE: BS: Statins: Your Experience
From: Anne Lister
Date: 26 Oct 10 - 01:13 PM

Simvastatin ...levels have been fine since I started on it and no side effects.

Subject: RE: BS: Statins: Your Experience
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 26 Oct 10 - 01:00 PM

My issue is high triglyceride levels. I take 600 mg Gemfibrozil, generic for Tricor, daily and have done so for about 10 years. I also take fish oil daily to elevate good cholesterol. So far, so good, so long as I stick to the regimen.

Subject: RE: BS: Statins: Your Experience
From: EBarnacle
Date: 26 Oct 10 - 12:13 PM

I have been on Lipitor for more than a decade. All of my levels are now where they should be and my cardiac health is significantly improved. A few weeks ago, I completed a day of rowing as a safety boat without even feeling tired.

Subject: RE: BS: Statins: Your Experience
From: John on the Sunset Coast
Date: 26 Oct 10 - 12:01 PM

Like Stringsinger I indulge in Simovastatin--a generic for Zocor--at low dosage. It seems to work as well as the Brand. I check for liver function semi-annually...so far no problems. Diet and exercise are also necessary as String pointed out. If I miss a daily walk or the gym, Mrs. Sunset Coast is on me like brown on rice.

Subject: RE: BS: Statins: Your Experience
From: bobad
Date: 26 Oct 10 - 12:00 PM

I take 5mg. Crestor (rosuvastatin calcium)per day. My LDL was mildly elevated, triglycerides normal and my HDL relatively high making my ratio close to normal. My LDL level remained unchanged by maintaining a low fat diet.

As a matter of interest, my doctor's brother is an invasive cardiologist and chief of cardiology at a university teaching hospital. He takes 10 mg. Crestor per day without (so he says) even knowing what his cholesterol level is as, he says, you can't have too low an LDL level.

Subject: RE: BS: Statins: Your Experience
From: MikeL2
Date: 26 Oct 10 - 11:54 AM

hi

I have been on statins now for many years. After a blood test for a traffic accident I was dicovered to have a cholesterol level of almost 11.0.
In the first place the medics tried to treat it with diet and exercise but after six months there was no improvement. The doctor said that my high cholesterol must be genetic. I called my sister who then went for a test and she was almost as high as me. So it looks as if the doc is right.

So I went on to statins and have proceeded over many years from 5mg to 40mg today.

I have also proceeded through several different brands; the latest two have been Simvastatin and Atorvastatin.

Very recently my doctor took me off Atorvastatin and put me back on Simvastatin ( having taken me off it earlier because my reading was going up). After 3 months back on Simvastin I was over the target and put back on to Atorvastatin. My level is now under target.

During all this time I have suffered no noticeable side-effects on any of the brands or dosage levels that I have been on.

Other than having to remember to take them I have not really noticed that I have been taking them.

Incidently my wife has recently been diagnosed with high choloesterol and she has been put straight on 40 mg of Simvastin. Last week she had a check and only today we have been for her to have another test as the first one was found to be high. Unlike me my wife had not suffered from cholesterol until she was 69.

Hope this helps.

Cheers

MikeL2

Subject: RE: BS: Statins: Your Experience
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 26 Oct 10 - 11:40 AM

Atorvastatin.... I had a transient-ischaemic attack (small stroke) in 1986..... been taking pills since for control of hypertension but they only decided I should take aspirin and a statin two years ago..... It has lowered my cholestrol level but it wasn't high anyway.

Subject: RE: BS: Statins: Your Experience
From: Stringsinger
Date: 26 Oct 10 - 11:32 AM

I'm on a mild one, Simva-Statin and it apparently helps in bringing down negative cholesterol. It raises the good density lipids.

This has to be said, however. Statins on their own won't do it. Proper eating habits and exercise is essential along with statin use.

Reliance on any medication to complete a physical health regimen to the exclusion of
good eating and exercise is not going to do the job.

Subject: BS: Statins: Your Experience
From: wysiwyg
Date: 26 Oct 10 - 11:27 AM

Take one? Which? How's it working for ya?

~Susan