Re: Pravochol versus Lipitor Price

On Fri, 09 Sep 2005 21:39:02 GMT, "Bill" <xxx@xxxxx> wrote:

>You might ask your Dr. about your wife going off of statins for a month or so
>to see if her symptoms improve. Sometimes statins can cause muscle problems
>but certainly there are many other things that can do that too - especially in
>older people. You might also ask if something called a CK blood test would be
>appropriate. A couple of other suggestions you might ask your Dr. about -
>taking fish oil capsules (nothing to do with statins) unless you eat a lot of
>fish and taking CoQ10 capsules if you stick with the statins. (Statins deplete
>this.)
>
>Bill

You think like our pharmacist does. When I asked him he suggested
stopping the Lipitor for a month or so. After that is when I told the
Dr but she maintained that she should keep taking it. The Dr did agree
to drop down to a 10mg every other day which we did. Two weeks ago I
told my wife to drop down to two a week.
I plan on asking the Dr on the next visit for the CK test. She has an
appt with the endocrinologist on the 27th. I don't know if she would
do that test or not because so far the endo has only been treating her
for an abnormal parathyroid test.

Darrel
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