STOPPING SIMVASTATIN
Posted over a year ago
JUST LIKE EVERYONE ELSE, I HAVE THE BAD SIDE EFFECTS, I STOPPED IT 4 DAYS AGO WITHOUT MY DR'S CONSENT. I HAD MY BLOOD PRESSURE UNDER CONTROL, NOW THIS MORNING IT READ 169/94/59, YESTERDAY IT WAS 114/60/70. HAS ANYONE EXPERIENCED THIS. CAN IT BE BECAUSE OF THE MUSCLE PAIN OR JUST THE WORRYING ABOUT WHAT THIS IS DOING TO OUR BODIES. ... more »
JUST LIKE EVERYONE ELSE, I HAVE THE BAD SIDE EFFECTS, I STOPPED IT 4 DAYS AGO WITHOUT MY DR'S CONSENT. I HAD MY BLOOD PRESSURE UNDER CONTROL, NOW THIS MORNING IT READ 169/94/59, YESTERDAY IT WAS 114/60/70. HAS ANYONE EXPERIENCED THIS. CAN IT BE BECAUSE OF THE MUSCLE PAIN OR JUST THE WORRYING ABOUT WHAT THIS IS DOING TO OUR BODIES.
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Chadd - Glad to hear you've stopped taking the statin drugs in order to stop the damage they have already caused. As some other posters have mentioned, there are some nutritional supplements that may help in recovery from the damage, including CoQ10, omega-3 fish oil, alpha lipoic acid, vitamin D3, and the amino acid l-carnitine. Since you said you quit without your doctor's consent, I assume he was still denying that statins were the cause of the terrible side effects and still pressuring you to continue taking the drug despite of it.
Statin drugs are a huge money-making scam, as Big Pharma sold $29 billion of the drugs last year, and the doctors are rewarded with a steady stream of new customers and more income. This has been accomplished by 20+ years of marketing propaganda that has almost brainwashed the public to believe that cholesterol is an evil substance that causes heart disease, and patients are frightened that they may die from a heart attack if they don't take a cholesterol lowering drug for the rest of their life. This is purely a fear-mongering tactic used to maximize sales and profits, but it has worked.
Contrary to all their marketing propaganda, cholesterol is NOT the cause of heart disease. Dr. Linus Pauling discovered almost 20 years ago that the real cause of cardiovascular disease is the lack of sufficient vitamin C necessary for the body to heal and repair damaged arteries. If you take at least 3 grams of vitamin C per day, it will greatly reduce the risk of a heart attack because it works to actually heal the arteries and prevent heart disease. Cholesterol is absolutely essential for the health of every cell in the body. But statin drugs restrict the body's normal production of cholesterol, and this can cause the degeneration of cell membranes of muscles, joints, and nerves, including the brain. To make matters worse, statin drugs also block the production of the essential nutrient CoQ10. For a better understanding of all of this, I would urge you to read two very informative articles. Since this message board does not allow direct links, just do a google search for cqs.com to find the website. Then in the lefthand column of the page, click on Natural Cardiovascular Disease Therapy to read the first article, then click on Natural Statin Injury Therapy to read it.
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