Re: Statin Muscle Pain - Heart & Diaphragm Are Muscles


"Jason" <jason@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> In article <CHXze.31605$up5.2491@lakeread02>, "jay1000"
> <jfschonSpamguarD@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Have there been any reports of heart or respiratory (diaphragm) pain
>> triggered by statins? They are both muscles and probably not exempt from
>> the same statin mechanism causing muscle pain in the arms and legs.
>>
>> The reason I ask is because after 5+ uneventful years on 10 mg of Lipitor
>> my
>> doctor doubled the dose to 20 mg. His target for me was the new high
>> risk
>> LDL guideline of 70. It worked, but after a couple of months I started
>> developing severe bilateral thigh and bicep pains. Also a strange
>> breathing
>> sensation...not a pain and not out-of-breath but more like a feeling of
>> being out-of-breath. Chest X-ray, spirometry and stress test are
>> essentially OK.
>>
>> Doctor had me discontinue Lipitor and after 3 weeks all the muscle pain
>> is
>> gone and the strange breathing sensation is improving but not gone.
>>
>> If the respiratory culprit can be Lipitor, I'll wait a little before any
>> more pulmonary tests.
>
> Your doctor made a poor decision when he doubled your dose to 20 mg. Dr.
> Cohen (in his book) clearly states that higher doses of statins are more
> likely to cause side effects than low doses of statins. Your doctor made a
> great decision when he told you to discontinue statins. You need to read
> the following book before you even consider going back on statins.
> WHAT YOU MUST KNOW ABOUT STATIN DRUGS AND THEIR NATURURAL ALTERNATIVES by
> Jay. S. Cohen, M.D.
>
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In retrospect he made a poor decision, but I am in the high cardiovascular
risk category. So at the time it looked reasonable. I did buy Cohen's book
and it is very interesting. He is a believer in statins especially low dose
statins...what he calls precision prescribing. If I had know it back then I
never would have gone to 20 mg.

Thanks


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