Re: Stopping Cozaar/Losartan

From: listener (listener_at_nospam.net)
Date: 03/19/05 

Date: 19 Mar 2005 16:41:45 GMT

liaM <cuddly@mindless.com> wrote in
news:423c44af$0$1242$8fcfb975@news.wanadoo.fr:

>>
>> You are aware that incidents of serious side effects (including
>> death) are much higher for aspirin (taken as directed) than all
>> atatins combined, aren't you? (I would post all sorts of stuff and
>> links about that, but I wouldn't want to come off as too pushy and
>> overbearing.)
>
> Please post the links ! How is it there's nothin said about aspirin
> on SMC ?
>

Because two people have kept the overly-negative focus on statins. I've
posted a number of times of detailing aspirin vs statin side effects. For
example, "from October 1997 to January 2001, nearly 300 million
prescriptions were written for statins. That works out to less than 1
chance in 750,000 of getting rhabdomyolysis and 1 in 5,747,000, or
0.000017 percent, of dying from it. The odds of a serious bleed from
aspirin can be 1 in 50,000." Also, alcohol side effects and alcohol-
related deaths far and away exceed those from statins. So if you take
statins on a regular basis, drink alcohol on a regular basis or take
aspirin on a regular basis statistically speaking you have a much higher
chance of suffering from side effects from the latter two than the
former. (Feel free to google back ove the last three months or so).

None of this is to say statins are side effect free. We all know that.
They can cause side effects, sometimes serious. I think it's important to
put the statin risk/benefit in perspective with, for example, aspirin and
alcohol (which have also become cardio-prophylactic). Common sense rather
than fear.

>> Knowing that, will you still continue to take it? If so, why?
>
>
> Of course I'd stop (tho' you won't catch me paying drug companies
> what they charge for Plavix)
>

But *why* would you stop (taking aspirin)?

L.

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