Re: Statin drugs lower heart attack death-study

personally I wouldn't touch you with a 10 foot scapel...

esp after asking such a disclaimer...you would have been returned to pre
op..and sent home

lawsuit waiting to happen...

ASIF these doctors took you with any validity...

must have been a good laugh in the OR once you were asleep

asif you knew


"zee" <fresh~horses@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Sbharris[atsign]ix.netcom.com wrote:
>> Steve Marcus wrote:
>> > "fresh~horses" <fresh~horses@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> > news:1125372954.080606.312630@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> > > When to a recent surgery I had my chart annotated to say I was not to
>> > > be given statins. It was given the same flag as the pencillin
>> > > warning.
>> > >
>> > > I also made sure neither the surgeon or anesthetist for my surgical
>> > > procedure take statins.
>> >
>> > A new implementation of "Death before dishonor." LOL
>> > >
>> > > Zee
>> >
>> > Steve
>>
>>
>>
>> It also takes drug-bigotry to a new high. Reminds me of an SDA having
>> to make sure their surgeon is caffeine-free, or a Mormon making sure he
>> doesn't smoke, or some ultraorthodox Jew or Muslim refusing surgical
>> hands that might have touched pork.
>>
>> All on the basis of studies by one group, not yet confirmed at any
>> other site, that statin-takers had minor changes in the
>> attention-dependent mental tasks, by comparison to a placebo group. The
>> magnitude being of about the same order as what you see in a person who
>> has or hasn't had a cup of coffee, or has or hasn't eaten, or (if a
>> smoker) has or hasn't had a recent cigarette. And all this not even
>> from a good crossover study where people could have served as their own
>> controls! Crap science, in other words. Sheesh.
>>
>
>
>> SBH
>
>
>
> My question to the anaesthetist and surgeon was taken seriously, and
> answered freely. They knew it can happen, and in fact, happened to one
> of their collegues with whom we have mutual aquaintance.
>
> My concern stems from my personal experience with statin induced memory
> loss: short term and long term memory, transient global amnesia,
> aphasia, language and learning ability loss, confusion and
> disorientation, loss of ability to read above a grade eight level, and,
> I am convinced, brain damage similar to what one might experience with
> a stroke; but I've not had a stroke.
>
> I personally know others (not from internet) who have had similar
> adverse response to statins, including two physicians, one mentioned
> above (neither of whom have written books about it), a lawyer, and a
> tenured professor both of whom had to retire early because of statin
> induced memory loss, and are currently being assessed in the same way I
> will be.
>
>
>
> Zee
>


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