Re: Statin-associated Muscle Problems


"Rita" <nitany_98@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 21 Jun 2005 21:10:21 GMT, <Hawki63@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>>remember...I got the same muscle aches you did...on placebo!!!
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> You did? Had your read about this possible side effect?


Hi Rita...

ever hear that nurses and doctors make the worst patients??

tis true...

actually had also watched hubby go thru bad aches and pains with
Lipitor.....now has none with Pravachol

also btw..once I went on REAL Lipitor...never an ache...amazing what the
mind can do

I personally...my h.o. only...don't think the statin route has enough to
offer you...me either maybe..it made me crazy to know my 93 year old MIL was
on Lipitor!!


> I'll admit when I began experiencing muscle aches and pains from
> Zocur I conjured up every possible alternatve explanation I could
> think of. The first time it happened I was feeling relatively
> poorly because of an onset of an allergy complex that made me
> feel overall rotten and my appetite for food was greatly
> diminished.
>
> I quit Zocor after 3 months on it, and gradually began to feel
> better. Got the allergy thing under control, began gaining back
> weight and had no muscle aches or pains after 2 months off the
> statin.
>
> Resumed the statin and within two weeks muscle pains and weakness
> came back full force.
>
> Quit it again after an other 2 weeks, and now am beginning to feel
> much better -- able to walk several blocks without pain, nightly
> excrutiating leg and foot cramps have stopped entirely.
>
> Twice burned and I'm off them for good. A gamble, perhaps, but
> one I'm willing to take, given the conflicting data about the
> wisdom of people aged 75, and especially women, taking statins
> in the first place.
>


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