Weight loss news | Breaking weight loss news | Weight loss

Cholesterol Conundrum: Do I Statin Or Not?

...And for the latter I was told that I needed to take a statin drug to get my total cholesterol down.As I previously blogged about in this blog post, when I took Lipitor first and later Crestor to get my cholesterol to go lower as my doctor instructed, it certainly did bring my total cholesterol down.

But the unbelievably painful joint and muscle pain that I experienced on these dangerous drugs is now the subject of an intensive study to help educate doctors about what they are doing to their patients.

It's amazing these drugs are still allowed on the market with so many unanswered questions about what they are doing to people.Even still, medical professionals have heralded statin drugs as the miracle pill they've been longing to find to lower cholesterol numbers.

But what is it doing to the health of the people taking it?

Sure, their cholesterol has gone down, but now what problems are they having to deal with because of the statin drug they are taking?

Yikes!

Which is worse?

I finally decided to stop taking these statins once and for all in August 2005 because I was tired of hurting and became thoroughly convinced that cholesterol drugs are more about money than they are improving people's health in an effort to prevent a heart attack or stroke.

Plus, with my enormous Read more...

1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 | 50 | 51 | 52 | 53 | 54 | 55 | 56 | 57 | 58 | 59 | 60 | 61 | 62 | 63 | 64 | 65 | 66 | 67 | 68 | 69 | 70 | 71 | 72 | 73 | 74 | 75 | 76 | 77 | 78 | 79 | 80 | 81 | 82 | 83 | 84 | 85 | 86 | 87 | 88 | 89 | 90 | 91 | 92 | 93 | 94 | 95 | 96 | 97 | 98 | 99 | All news

Weight Loss   Weight watch   Weight loss news