I am only 42 years old and have been on zocor for the past 30 mon...
You'd probably have a better chance of seeing old age by getting drunk and playing soccer on the motorway than taking 80 mgs of that poison a day. It's a killer, check lipitor on this site and check spacedoc dot net for heaps more information on the subject, Hope you improve soon.
Muscles and Statins
A University of Alabama at Birmingham physiology professor, Dr. Thalacker-Mercer, has found that simvastatin (Zocor) inhibit muscle repair and regeneration. The title of her work is ““Simvastatin Reduces Human Primary Satellite Cell Proliferation in Culture” and was publish at the September 2008 meeting of the American Physiological Society.
A synopsis of her work can be found here http://www.the-aps.org/press/journal/08/32.htm
The Brain and Statins
In addition, Yeon-Kyun Shin, a biophysics professor at Iowa State University, has found that statins that inhibit the liver from making cholesterol may also keep the brain from making cholesterol, which is vital to efficient brain function.
Professor Shin said, "If you try to lower the cholesterol by taking medicine that is attacking the machinery of cholesterol synthesis in the liver, that medicine goes to the brain too. And then it reduces the synthesis of cholesterol which is necessary in the brain,"
Source -- http://www.public.iastate.edu/~nscentral/news/2009/feb/shin.shtml
Kind Regards,
Farside
Your symptoms are very much like those I saw in a very close friend. He had taken Zocor (=Simvastatin) for many years. Never did any medical staff think in terms of side effects when he had new symptoms.
Then they were diagnosed as something else and more medications were added.
The symptoms did not come at once, little by little, year after year. The people who get problems right away can consider themselves lucky because they - and their doctors - might then think in terms of side effects.
Eventually I got Internet.
As the situation was really bad I started to look for information. I found this site and many others.
I also read different books and formed my own opion. For my friend it was too late.
The best thing you can do for yourself and people around you is to "educate" yourself and these issues.
It`s your body and you know best how you feel - rember that!
Books
The Great Cholesterol Con (Anthony Colpo)
--------"------------------------ (Malcolm Kendrick, Uk, a different book)
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)
Death by prescription (Ray D. Strand?)
How doctors think (Jerome Groopman?)
Webb-sites
www.askapatient.com (patient stories)
www.peoplespharmacy.com (search for statins)
www.spacedoc.net
A lot of information, including Duane Gravelines own story. There is a Forum with many stories like yours. You can also order a free news letter.
Google "Stopped our statins"
Under "print articles" to the left there is an interesting article from Weston Price Foundation
www.statineffects.com
and links
All statins have similar side effects so also read stories for the others - for instance Lipitor.
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