statin is another word for premature aging

Dear sufferer - If you haven't already done so, stop taking statins. Right now - today - immediately! There is a wealth of independent research that gives evidence that statins cause damage.  The cause muscle damage, sometimes irreversible, not only to limbs but to heart muscles, kidneys, etc.  They cause liver damage.  They reduce cholesterol yes - but as you've discovered they reduced the GOOD cholesterol along with the bad. Cells become damaged by oxidative stress.  There is now new evidence they call stem cell damage leading to premature ageing - as you are now experiencing.  It's fact that high HDL alone does not necessarily cause heart episodes and that lowering cholesterol only reduces the risk of heart attack in a very small section of people, to be honest mostly men under 50, who are already NOT a high risk sector of the population.  The only good reason for taking statins is to increase the profit of the pharmaceutical company producing them.  There is very little health benefit to anyone in taking them and massive risk of debilitating and life threatening side effects.  Just stop now.  These forums will give you advice and help on how to help repair the damage already done, Co-enzyme Q10 is a good place to start.  Bottom line however - stop now, even before you see any other medical professional, and do not be coerced into ever taking them again, no matter what.

I always say to trust what your body is telling you not your doctor.

My best friend went through a similar scenario to you and would not stop the statins or the later anti-depressants as he trusted the medical profession. Previously a keen hill walker he got so he could not leave the house and took to his bed. Doctors then said without any tests that he must have dementia or Alzheimer’s.

He had retired at 60 with plans for activities and travel but spent his later years in a fog.

 

 

I am with Loxie and Derek.  

My only reaction was not physical, but it was substantial all the same.  My memory became patchy and then things that should have been occurring didn't, and I would get caught with my pants down later when I had not remembered something back then that now came up in present time to bite me on the you know what.  And saying, "Ah, you don't remember forgetting me, do you! Ha ha ha ha ha..."  It can be downright embarrassing.

I knew I was heading for dimensia and was not about to lose my mind over fears of tiny, statistically minor heart issue potentialities that may have never - most likely would not have, actually, statistically - proliferated out into reality.  I went off of the statins and my cholesterol returned to the perfectly normal levels of before, and my memories that made me ME, with it.  Every couple of days now I get in touch with one of those long ago memories that was very important to me, and I thank my lucky stars for remembering them again.  They were not there while on the statins; the connections to them would have gotten weaker and weaker, and I would have eventually lost contact with them forever.  

Dimensia is not for me.  I would rather take that small, tiny chance on a heart attack that is always there for any of us - no matter how healthy our hearts or cholesterol are, there's still that chance (so the drug companies, via the doctors they train, still want us to take them even when we have healthy levels of cholesterol, just in case) - I would rather take that infinitesimal chance, than lose my mind instead.   

Quality of life is not to be messed around with.  It is truly what makes life worth living.  

(And under certain circs, not worth living...)