Hi-I am a 59 year old female have been taking 20mg Simvastatin fo...

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Posted at 10: 3 AM on Jan 20, 2009 by 1dmm, #38196

Hi-I am a 59 year old female have been taking 20mg Simvastatin for 3 months for a cholesterol level of 238 and have noticed significant symptoms that cannot be from any other origin than this medication-dry skin, change of hair texture, psoriasis and bulging in thumb joints, stomach flu, shoulder pain and tingling in hands, vision problems. I am a healthy flight attendant except for all these things that have happened in the last 3 MONTHS!!! I am seeing my doctor tomorrow to discuss a change. I want to take a natural medication to lower my cholesterol.

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Reply 10 months ago on Jan 25, 2009 by swedish, #16372

You are lucky to have side effects almost rigth away. That`s why you can see the connection to Simvastatin.

There are more problems for those who get side effects after several years.

I have never taken any statins, but I have seen people near me suffer from side effects.

Don´t worry about your cholesterol level - educate yourself. There are other opinions about the cholesterol hypotesis.

Read:

The Great Cholesterol Con (Anthony Colpo)
The Cholesterol Myths (uffe Ravnskov)
Lipitor - thief of Memory (Duane Graveline)
Malignant Medical Myths (Joel F. Kauffman)
Overdosed America (John Abramson)
The Truth About The Drug Companies (Marcia Angell)

Also Google "Stopped our statins".
A very informative site made by an ex. patient.
Under "print articles" you will find an interesting article from The Weston Price Foundation. It`s about the statin studies and side effects.

If the webb-sites below should have been eraced, please google the names of the writers above and you might find their sites.

www.thincs.org
www.ravnskov.nu
www.spacedoc.net

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