My mother, who is in her early 70's, is diabetic and had high cho...

Sounds like your mother's dr. is drug-happy which is common. There are natural drs. who believe to treat with natural products. Your chiropractor was correct. This dangerous drug can cause MANY side effects. All drugs can have side effects. In time. . . . and natural products/ alternatives, the side effects can get better. DRS. NEED CLASSES FOR NUTRITION AND ALTERNATIVES . . . instead pushing drugs.

Your have yourself a bonified case. I would encourage you to seek legal counsel for your mother since she has permanant muscle damage from the statin.

Don't give up too soon! I took 80 Mg. of lipitor for four months, and had severe muscle weakness and my CPK level was 11,000! My doctor took me off of the lipitor, I tried to keep on exercising, even though sometimes my legs just burned when I walked or biked. At first I didn't see any progress, but now, 14 months later, my doctor checked my CPK level and it is down to around 3,000. So, it went down 8,000 points in 14 months. He felt it should be back to normal by now, so he sent me to a muscle specialist yesterday. This doctor checked everything out, and said that I was progressing just like I should, and did not have permanent muscle damage. Muscles just take a lot longer to regenerate than other parts of our body. He said that I should just keep doing just what I had been doing, and the CPK levels should keep going down slowly until they're back to normal again. I have been taking C0Q10, 400 mg. every day along with L-Carnitine - 500 mg. and other vitamins and supplements. Just tell her to hang in there, get some exercise everyday, and hopefully in 12 to 18 months she will have her muscles back. Don't believe someone that tells you there is permanant muscle damage!

My husband had the same experience. He has been to so many doctors over the last 2 1/2 years. He has had EMG's, muscle biopsies, etc. We were finally sent to a neuromuscular specialist in Indianapolis. He has been dx with Mitochondrial disorder. Caused by PERMANENT damage to the mitochondria. From Lipitor. The only treatment known at this point is dietary supplements. CoQ10 1000 mg dly, L-carnitine, and B-2. He is also on high doses of narcotic pain meds just to be able to get through the day. He is only 49 years old and can barely function at times. Some people improve after stopping the statins, but for some, the damage is permanent. Please do some research on the mitochondrial disorders for yourself. It is usually genetic and affects children. But it CAN affect adults and be caused by statins.

statins have many bad effects. in addition to inhibiting cholesterol production, they also interfere with the production of coQ10 which is essential for muscle function.

and quess what? the heart is a muscle. so first they make this bogus expensive drug to suppress a substance that you need anyway and it turns out to suppress a few other substances that you need

then when people feel worse adfter taking the drugs, they can rack up tons of medical tests, prescribe other drugs for pains, etc and make tons of $$ while inflicting possibly permanent damage and ruining your life

stop worrying about cholesterol. your liver makes it; you need it. it's been around as long as man and it's never hurt anyone half as much as as the drugs to suppress it have

stop going to these narrowly trained conventional medical doctors; they have blinders on. try complimentary and integrative doctors. they are real MD's who have become disillusioned with the relentless focus on drugs as the answer for everything. they've done some out of the box thinking and reading and discovered that, yes indeed, nutrition does have something to do with human health.

being real doctors, they can prescribe drugs but chances are they won't

what kind of sense does it make to go back to the same system that failed you, that created the problem in the first place, for help?