Re: Statin-associated Muscle Problems

Yes, but did you have a muscle biopsy showing ragged red fibers? That, due
to a placebo effect, would be an apples to apples comparison for those who
have had such diagnosis of their statin myopathy.



<Hawki63@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "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!!!
>>>
>> 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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>


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