Just started today with 40 mg dose of Sortis (Swiss-branded Lipit...

Good that you stopped the dangerous drug. There are many natural products for health issues.

My Swiss doctor, who has been otherwise terrific until today, told me on the phone that I was having a psychological reaction.

No way, this is a very physiological reaction...

He wants me to take it again tomorrow evening before bed. It will not happen.

Wow. I have heard before of someone getting sick on just one of these pills, but its rare to happen that fast. You did the right thing stopping. You didn't have anything to gain by taking it anyway. The marketing of these drugs is so strong that they prescribe them to people who don't need them. Sales, sales, sales. If all the profits from cholesterol lowering drugs were to dry up over night, by morning nobody would be advising us to lower our cholesterol.

Whoopster below says "phsychological reaction" Go to spacedoc dot net or google Allan Woodley suicide. The drug manufacturer was forced to admit to the coroner that "physological disturbances" are a known side effect and deaths have been documented as a direct resukt of statin medication. I "heard voices" and stalked my house with an axe. I stopped an innocent car and attacked it with my walking stick. I was 6 months "sobering up" after stopping the med (simvastatin). At one part i simply could not print my own name with a pencil my hand just couldn't do it. i was that mentally unhinged and driving a car - this is completely unbelievable. regards.

You did exactly the right thing.

As I think that most people usually just read the last messages I enclose one that I wrote earlier on.
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May 7th
2008
1:11 AM
I wrote the message below on March 9th, 2008, but I think it might be useful if I repeat it.
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It`s very disturbing to read all these stories. I really feel for you.

My experience comes from seeing what happened to people close to me.

They all took statins.

I started to look for information on statins, and other medications in 2004 and it continues to this day although two of my relatives are dead.

I have nothing to do with the health or pharmaceutical industry.

I saw the suffering and it made me very angry.

I am an ordinary lady in her sixties who live in Sweden.

The situation is almost the same here as in the U.S.

There is very little discussion about risks/benefits with this kind of medicatications - or others.

I think it`s a good idea to turn to the Internet and books to get other views about the cholesterol issue.

Is it really true that it`s the cholesterol that is causing heart disease?

Are you sure?

Please visit:

www.thincs.org,

www.ravnskov.nu,

www.spacedoc.net, www.statinalert.org

(if the www-addresses above should be replaced by *** Google for information of the books/authors below Then you might find them).

Also search articles etc on "Stopped our statins" and on the names of the different authors below.

Also read:

The Cholesterol Myths (Uffe Ravnskov)

The Great Cholesterol Con (Antony Colpo)

Book with the same title (Malcolm Kendrick)

Overdosed America (John Abramson)

The Truth about the Drug Companies (Marcia Agnell)

Malignant Medical Myths (Joel M. Kauffman)

There are many more.

Please look on the Inernet for more information about each book.

It´s good to have some other information than the one given by doctors because most of them have been "educated" by the pharmaceutical companies themselves - and why should they talk about risks, side effects etc. The pharmaceutical companies are very interested in profits.

Finally - here are some side effects that I have seen:

pains in legs, hands, elbows, shoulders, knees, hips, cracking noise in ribs, muscle weakness, loss of hair, head ache, burning, tingling sensations in hands and feet, numbness, difficulties to swallow, loss of taste, ringing noise in ears, cramps, insomnia, irritation, depression, difficulty with short-term memory and then advancing into more serious problems.

These side effects - for 3 different people - all over 65 - did not come at once.

All of them had taken statins for years (Zocor)

It doesn´t matter which product -all statins have similar side effects.

Search for "Stopped our statins" on Google. It´s a very informative site and under "print articles" there are som articles that you can take along to your doctor for discussion.

I particularly like the one from Weston Price Foundation
and explains the different statin studies and side effects. .

My relatives also had some other medications which makes it even easier for doctors (and patients) to say that it`s just old age.

I am happy for those who get problems right away because then there maybe a chance for the patient and the doctor to see that there is a connection.

You really have to look out for yourself and the people around you!

Good Luck.