STATINS WEEK 5 my diary

many thanks will have a look at duane story looks and sounds interesting..

IT IS.....JUST GOGLE HIS NAME....he was in charge of the   NASSA space prog and his recent "diary" will explain a lot.....it certainly opened my eyes - and mind!

So go and read.....it is a fair length...but oh so worthhile.....!

PS FOLKS...a quote I came across earlier today....It makes you wonder....

"Obviously, the 'protection' from harm provided by the government is as sub-standard as all the government services. I have heard reports that the bozos in government want to spike municipal drinking water with statins! This may or may not be accurate, but we need to keep our ears open. The govt is not here to help you. NEVER take pharmaceuticals without reading the insert. That should be enough to keep you completely away from them!"

Please give us the reference for this quote!  It's meaningless to me unless I know where it came from and which government it's referring to.

I've heard the panic stories about certain drugs being about to be put into the water supply for YEARS - the rumour used to be about valium and later prozac...... yeah, like they're going to make sure little babies are taking statins and that people already taking them on prescription get an extra dose through the water supply?   I don't think so ......

I'm not saying the drug companies wouldn't love to put drugs in the water if they thought they could get away withit,, but I don't believe any government outside say, North Korea, would allow it.

Don't panic it will never happen. Think of flouride where it has been talked about for many years and only three water areas have done it.

At the first suggestions mobs would be out on the streets. I do hope that someone has not elaborated on a remark I repeated made by my doctor who said of a cardiologist at our local hospital 'He would put statins in the water supply if he could' 

I'm not panicking!  However, I do need to point out that you are totally wrong about fluoridation:   most recent figures state that approx 70% water supplies in Australia are fluoridated and have been since the 50's, with vast improvement in dental health and no proved negative effects.  That percentage also has to take into account that many people in rural areas don't have mains water and nor do remote communities on bore water.

Hardly a comparison with statins!

I am quoting my UK dentist on flouride in our water supply.

Hi NOT HEARD OF THIS ONE IN Lincoln AND OUR LOT are in the dark ages and are under funded and not the best 

Hi ken no stomach pains but left foot is doing my head in as I work standing feel like cutting it off..lol.Only problems I seem to be getting is chest pain and some funny spasms in my body the odd headache and tight chest the drug called bistroprol also causes bad side effects which I am on..The big day for me is Monday 23rd with main doctor who did my operation of 2 stents I believe that is d day will let you know the outcome but I feel some days are good and others are very bad...blinking drugs feel like a smack head..ha ha

I'm on the biso too, and the aspirin, feel like crap some days and okay others, I stopped taking the Lipitor because of shoulder and leg pain, dizziness and forgetting my own name some days!!!😳😳😳😳

hi Ken did you have stents and was this fairly recent??  As you see i m on week 5 without the dreaded poison smartys but have had tight chest and pains near heart unless this is heart burn only occurs when sat down at night time had a few days of a little unsteady on my feet just as well not working on heights..used to to like a beer  or too but not really bothered which seem s rather strange for me its sorted delt me a cruel hand as i wanted to travel around thailand but feel this has stopped me from wanting to do something alittle different wit my life 

I'm not sure because it's 3 1/2 years ago, but I think I may have had chest pain & twinged after a heart attack and insertion of one stent.   It could be indigestion:  I had chest pain for ages which I thought was angina and so did my cardiologist, but it turned out to be reflux - almost identical pain, also usually at night when I was sitting down after dinner.

Go to your doctor as well as this forum if you're worried!   Do you have angina spray and if so, does it relieve the discomfort?

Hi Graham,  have one stent, done in November 2013, had a few trips back to the A&E since, mainly due to the fact that after the angioplasty I developed GERD and now have a hiatus hernia which both cause chest pain, when I lie down or am sat forward give me considerable discomfort, I think this was caused by the post MI pills too!

Thanks for reply interesting these are the same things i m getting i have the spray but feel it blows my head of and really scares the crap out of me its like sniffing glue pardon the pun

I have the same reaction with the spray Graham, I have tried it a couple of times and both times nearly passed out, and doesn't seem to lessen any of the symptoms.

Sorry, have I missed something?  What exactly is "THE SPRAY" you're talking about?

Hi Jude, I'm talking about the Nitro spray you get for angina, think Graham probably is too.

Thanks for clarification.  I've been using it for a couple of years now with no problems and prefer it to the tablets, which have to be thrown away after a certain time and I never did use very many of them.

 

you are very  right... take it jude lives abroad  

......YES BUT... Once administered there is nothing you can do to stop the head bursting effect of the spray...... Particularly If incorrectly administered...ie just ino your mouth instead of sub lingua

At least with the tablet under your tongue you can take the dratted thing back out ...thus aborting the dreadful headache..... You can even replace it if the effect has not been complete!  

What is more you can buy a bottle of GTN tablets for about a third of the price of a GTN spray..... a no-brainer in my book...LOL

Well I reckon the key words there are "incorrectly adminstered"  - I've never sprayed it into my mouth, only under the tongue as directed, and have never had any problems with it.

I didn't get a headache or any other unwanted effect from the tablets either and the costs are the same here, as they're both on subsidized prescription for anyone on government beneifts.