possible new statin??

personally ..I wouldn't touch a statin with a ten foot pole....one doctor told me to stop them because of terrible muscle ache.and he said he wouldn't give me any others because they all had the same side effects...

If one statin affected your liver so badly I personally wouldn't be taking any of them 

I understand that doctor stating its probably the Fluoxetine causing your liver problems but statins are renowned for affecting liver function, that's why regular liver checks have to occur whilst on them.

with that in mind I'd be very wary of taking statins with any liver problem. If you stop Fuoxetine to improve liver then you do open door for statins to continue where Fluoxetine left off.

 

Rosuvastatin requires a much lower dosage than the regular statins.  Hence 5mg compared to the regular dose, 40 mg. of simvastatin or 20 mg. of atorvastatin.

My question would be: is that because rosuvastatin is simply a more powerful statin, hence the side effects would stay the same, or is the reduced dosage of rosuvastatin going to acheive what simvistatin does in terms of lowering cholesterol while reducing the statin side effects by 8:1 in the case of simv and 4:1 in the case of atorv?  The fellow cardiologist in my primary's office is thinking going onto rosuvastatin will remedy my memory losses that proliferate when on the statins.

I will say that my memory is better on the atorvastatin at 20 mg than it was when on the simvistatin at 40mg.  But I still cannot find my jacket - with lots of valuables in it - that disappeared a few weeks ago just after our trip from CA to Oregon and back, and while on simvistatin I lost my took kit, which I had exotic tools in that I had collected over a 10 year period.  It just vanished.  And not from being in existence, I am sure.  From my mind.  From my memory of where I last used it and where I put it.

I will start the resuvastatin and see how it goes, but I still do not trust any statins, based on what's being said here.  Has anyone  here had any experience on memory issues with resuvastatin?  Or cessation of other problems because of going from simv to rosuv?  Anyone have stats on how much your cholersterol was reduced by taking any of the statins?  My last lipids panel was after having been off the simv for a year, and since I then went onto atorv and have been on it for a couple of months - since Feb 18 2015 to be exact, going from 40mg to 20mg about half way thru that 2 month period - I want another lipid panel before going off them all, just to see the changes the statins made in the last 2 months of being on them.

The two differences between Rouvastatin and Simvastatin are firstly different manifacturers and secondly how they work.

Simvastatin time of effect is 3 hours, so usually patients advised to take a at bedtime, basically same time every day. Its bioavailability is estimated to be around 5% and its excreted mostly through fecal output.

Rosuvastatin time of effect is much longer 19 hours yet it's bioavailability is higher at 20% and it is excreted through urine.

Rosuvasatin can be taken anytime of day, with or without food.

Simvasatatin is the most popular statin as its the cheapest, Rosuvastatin however is one of the most expensive to prescribe and is not usually offered initially upon starting statins, only if other statins cause a problem. 

So basically both of the above fall under the statin drug group.

 

Hi people, I have now decided to stop statins for good following another frightening incident of memory loss when I suddenly could not remember my c/card numbers whilst making a purchase of goods. The staff at the store could see I was in some kind of memory loss mode and asked for my home telephone number to contact my wife but I could not recall it. One of them took my mobile and found the number and got my wife to collect me. My wife immediately got rid of the statins and now one week later I am almost back to normal again,  I was on 80mg max. for 12 years and in that time had no recall for checks, I have now been offered 40mg but politely refused---no more guinea pig trials for me or statins.  Often over the past 8 years or so I commented to friends that I am sure the statins are causing my woes as more things began to take effect on me and doctors paid lttle or no real concern only issuing another brand of statin.  Here are some of my side effects and some are severe--- headaches--eye aches, muscle pain, severe itching and raised weals-shortage of breath,,, believe me I have had the lot and having stopped taking the statins on numerous accasions and the effects clearing am now under no illusion that these things are still in the experimental stage---from rats to humans the experiment with statins continues with us as the guinea pigs and parmaceutiacal companies getting richer.  Good-bye statin you have beaten me.