> I have the same symptoms as Emma, and attribute it to the use of Lipitor - also seems to relate to
> pain in lower back. But am being strongly advised to persevere as I have a high cholestrol level.
>
> David
>
David I'm sorry you're being advised to stay on a drug that is hurting you more than helping you.
Please do a search on sci.med.cardiology for
[email protected],
[email protected] and read what
these people have to say regarding Lipitor toxicity, why you should not be taking a statin and why
you may not need to lower your cholesterol at all.
This just drives me nuts. All the discussion that goes on here from people who have been injured by
statins and YOU Dr. Chung do not mention it when someone comes to you, thinking this is the goods,
this is a cardiologist! You might even say, others who post here have had your experience, there is
reason for concern, and you should search on this name, or that. Shame on you.
If you continue to take this drug David, or any statin, you may end up where I am, fully 2 1/2 years
after taking pravachol, lipitor, baycol and zocor for five years, and being told I HAD to keep
trying to take them: I can barely walk without hanging onto something; my legs ache especially in
the morning, the pain keeps me awake at night, my feet and lower legs are purple most of the time,
and though I am able to better it somewhat from stumbling around a bit, it worsens very badly from
just the amount of walking I must do to shower and prepare food. I do not "cook" anymore. I eat cans
of beans. First they are prepared quickly, and secondly, they are what I can afford after not
working more than minimum the whole time telling my doctors there was something terribly wrong. The
pain I had during statin use was enough to make me wish to kill myself, to be offered, but refuse
terrible painkillers including morphine. I have breakdown of skin on my feet, deep cuts and ulcers,
which a podiatrist says he only sees in diabetics (I am not). I still have memory and learning
problems caused by these drugs. With an honours degree in English Literature and several years
working as a journalist, I am now unable to work at anything but very basic clerical work, which I
do from home. No-one will hire someone who walks like I, and apparently you, do.
Some who post here refuse to understand. It is not simpole side effects; You will not likely return
to anything remotely normal if you have been injured by statins even if you do stop taking them.
The damage is apparently permanet. Your doctor is woefully inadequate in his education about these
drugs. Your doctor is probably getting his statin education from the drugs salespeople. How
unbiased is that?
It is not going to go away David. Stop now. Go to:
http://www.impostertrial.com/physician.htm and
read what statins are very likely doing to you, read and look at the histopathology slides. (Click
on the link at the top middle of the page I have sent).
You can have this damage without elevated CK tests. Read what Dr. Phillips has to say about that. On
the histopathology page, see how years after stoppping statins, people who took them and were told
they MUST stay on them are permanently crippled.
I seriously doubt your cholesterol is as high as mine. You are an Aussie? My total cholesterol is
12-14. My ldl is nearly all of that. I have no heart disease. The irony is I was put on statins to
PREVENT disease. They caused me disease. Now, I refuse to take them.
My life and finances have been destroyed because like you I listened to my doctor and continued
to take them. Oh yes, I would stop here and there, and report some alleviation of acute pain, but
was told "nope couldn't be statins" or "but you HAVE to lower your cholesterol. You're doing so
well in that".
I have no savings, no pension monies, and have sold everything saleable, including my mother's
pearls to pay rent and groceries. That is what statins have done to me. I have not bought a book, or
seen a movie, or been out of a city in 7 years. I have no money, no savings, and no fall-back but to
take welfare. I don't know about you, but I'm pretty middle class. That's unacceptable to me,
especially when it all could have been avoided.
There is more. If you wish e-mail me at
[email protected] and I will tell you things I cannot put
here. You need to know.
I repeat: I have no cardiovascular disease. I have no signs or symptoms that my physicians can find
that would indicate need for invasive testing. My total cholesterol is 12-14, or around 500 in the
American system.
Be warned.
I am so disappointed in you Dr. Chung. You didn't even bother to mention there were warnings of what
this man has experienced right on the lipitor product monograph.
B'adant