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pat11500
pat11500

Does anyone kniow how soon side effects from statins can kick in?

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  • lisa09924
    lisa09924 pat11500

    Posted

    everyone is different...side effects from statins can be felt very soon ....or may take a while....and usually if it's an older person...the aches and pains and memory loss may be  thought to be age related....but now there is more publicity about the terrible side effects...people are being informed and can then decide what they want to do
  • jenphil20
    jenphil20 pat11500

    Posted

    Hi my Sciatica started after 5 days and I have never had Sciatica before.

    I stopped the statins and it took just over a week to stop the Sciatica and I have not had any more pains.

  • sankirk
    sankirk pat11500

    Posted

    I had a pain in my side within a week, malaise, flu-like symptoms within 2 weeks... all intermintent except the right side pain which was either dull or sharp.  Took statin for 1 month. Symptoms continued... even getting worse.. for 3 weeks.  I understand that for some people they've taken statins for years and then suddenly started getting side effects.  I believe the "rare" side effects the companies report are vastly underreported and the degree of the side effects also.  
  • lill83898
    lill83898 pat11500

    Posted

    Some people do not get any side effects from them.

    Hopefully you are not waiting with baited breath for them to appear...while statins have a lot of bad 'press' from people, they do save lives.

    Every person is different.

    Lill

  • usch
    usch pat11500

    Posted

    I took Sivastatin and thought that I had no side effects, apart from getting older and thinking that the increasing pain in my back was age related. I was then put on Atorvastatin. The side effects were devastating. Apart from very much worsening back pain and loss of muscles i8n my legs in particular, they included depression and severe nightmares.

    I stopped all statins, and most of the side effects have disappeared.

  • bill80656
    bill80656 pat11500

    Posted

    Speak for myself on this.  I took them off and on for approx 40 years.

    Even back then I was not happy about taking them and any medications.

    My worst symptoms didn't start to happen until about 2 years ago, that is the terrible muscle weakness in my arms and my prediabetes. My night sweats and my leg cramps started many years ago and I never realized what caused them up until I figured everything out about 1 and a half years ago when I stopped taking them and everything went away over the course of a few months except my pre-diabetes which I still have.

      My guess is that it is very different for everyone. Maybe like a bell shaped curve.

  • pat11500
    pat11500

    Posted

    Thank you so much for your replies. After hearing so many people speak about their problems with side effects and it seems the patient info listing side effects now has to list the fact that they raise blood sugar and can cause the onset of type 2 diabetes, I am going to go the diet route.
    • bill80656
      bill80656 pat11500

      Posted

      If you do a lot of research and research on recent findings you may discover that there are now researchers who believe that it is not fat or cholesterol that is causing heart attacks. I personally believe that cholesterol and fat do not cause heart disease and that therefor statins are not doing any good whatsoever. 

      What I'm reading now suggests that sugar, fructose corn syrup, refined carbohydrates, enriched wheat,  and other processed foods are the culprits.

      I have cut those things almost totaly out of my diet. 

      I don't even have the blood test to see what my cholesterol level is.

      I do not believe nor trust doctors anymore after all that I have been through. 

       

  • usch
    usch pat11500

    Posted

    I think that one of the main contributors to CHD is stress.
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