Artical symptoms and conditions

I have never experienced the side effects of statins myself. I have never taken any - nor would I if my numbers should be too high.

I have had the opportunity - or rather was forced to - to "educate" myself on the cholesterol issue as i had 3 relatives suffering from side effects.

They were all over 70 and had taken Simvastatin (Zocor) for years.

In 2003, when I had just got an Internet connection, I started to look for information and was surprised to find these sites:

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I also found "Stopped our statins" (google for those words) where there is a lot of information.

Under print articles you will find a very informative article from The Weston Price Foundation about the different statin studies over the years and also about the side effects.

Are you sure that a high cholesterol will cause heart problems - or is it just propaganda from the pharmaceutical and health industry?

After having visited some of these webb sites and read some of the books you might have changed your mind - like I did.

Your cholesterol is very important for your body and essential for your brain among other things.

Why should you live better and longer if you use medications to lower it?

It`s just to read all these patient stories - what quality of life is this?

I would suggest that you also read the messages for the other statins such as Lipitor, Zocor (=Simvastatin) etc.

All statins have similar side effects.

Here are some books that you might find interesting. Some about the cholesterol issue.

The Great Cholesterol Con (Antony Colpo)

The Cholesterol Myths (Uffe Ravnskov)

Lipitor - thief of memory (Duane Graveline

Malignant Medical Myths (Joel F. Kauffman)

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Overdosed America (John Abramson)

The Truth about the Drug Companies (Marcia Angell)

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Bitter Pills (Stephen Fried)
about quinolone antibiotics such as Cipro, Ciprofloxacin, Levaquin etc.

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The Antidepressant Fact Book
Your Drug May Be Your Problem
Toxic Psychiatry
Medicine Madness
(Peter R. Breggin - all books about psychotropic drugs)
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What if medicine disappeared?
(Gerald E. Markle and Francis B. McCrea)

How doctors think
(Jerome Groopman?)

I took Doxy last summer for cystic acne. It worked fine and I didn't have any problems, and my skin cleared up nicely. I had some left over (bad, bad, I know but it hasn't yet expired!) so I started taking it again about 4 days ago. I noticed, almost immediately, severe tingling and burning in my fingers and hands and up into my arms when I am out in the sun and for hours afterwards. Also water (like washing my hands) makes the tingly feeling much worse. Weird, right? My two index fingers are bright red and any touch burns.

It's weird because last summer when I was on it I was out in the sun all the time with no problems at all.

While I think Zantac worked very well I feel that I must alert you to a
memory problem I had been experiencing. After taking Zantac for quite a
few months I started to experience a severe lack of concentration if you
will an example would be - I would be talking with someone and words
that I normally used would not come to my mind, I mean even the simplest
of words. I checked the side effects and it was not listed, I started
to think I had the beginnings of dementia, it got worse and worse, one
day while reading the newspaper I came across an article on a study by
Zantac of people with color, and there it was exactly what I was
experiencing.
I am Caucasian and have had the same reaction as in the people in your
study.

While your product might have helped my stomach it certainly scared me
into thinking I had dementia. It has been quite a few months and my
memory is back to normal. Everyone forgets what they want to say every
so often and perhaps a word or two might escape you, but this was not
the case at all. I only thank goodness that I came across that article
and stopped taking Zantac immediately. While the stomach problems are
still with me at least I have my memory back.

I hope you look into this and make others aware that this could happen,
I hate to think that my memory problem would have been a permanent dementia.