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Statin Side Effects

While taking a statin, do/did you experience:
* Shoulder/neck or muscle pain?
* Difficulty turning over in bed?
* Difficulty walking (heavy legs)?
* Frequent fatigue for no apparent reason?

Just SOME of the most serious complications from statins:
* Rhabdomyolysis:
Muscle deterioration; severe cases can lead to kidney failure & death.
* Increased Creatine Phosphokinase [CK or CPK]:
Enzyme released due to damage of the muscles of the heart, body and brain
* Memory Loss, often mistaken for Alzheimer's
* Parkinson's type symptoms
* Cancer
* Heart Palpitations & Arrhythmias
* Migraines
* Digestive Disorders

Did your doctor...
Ever tell you that you should take CoQ10 when taking statins?
Explain all the possible side effects that might far outweigh any benefit?
Tell you that statins can make you exercise intolerant?
Ever ask if you were experiencing memory decline?

And when you complained of muscle pain...
Did your CK or CPK test come back NORMAL?
AND your Dr. said Statins are NOT the problem;
Must be arthritis? Old age?

Only you can answer these questions.

 Participate in the Statin Side Effects - Polls

UCSD Statin Effects Study [UPDATED 12/03/08]
If you take or have taken a statin drug and experienced adverse side effects, Dr Beatrice Golomb is conducting an ongoing study. If you wish to participate in the study, click on this link: NEW Online paperless Questionnaire (page) .  If you need Statin Adverse Effects information, click on UCSD Statin Effects Study.

FDA's MedWatch
If you are experiencing side effects from statins (or any drug for that matter) it is very important to report adverse side effects to FDA's MedWatch.

Dr. Duane Graveline's Newsletter
Lots of excellent articles. Newsletter members will receive advance notice of NEW articles not listed on his homepage yet.
To Subscribe:

[NEW] Dr Graveline not only experienced TGA (transient global amnesia) but has recently been diagnosed with ALS.
Read The rest of My Story...

CoQ10 (Also known as Coenzyme Q10 - Q10 Co-enzyme Q10 - Ubiquinone) plays a critically important role in energy production and possibly an even greater role within the mitochondria as an anti-oxidant, with a free radical-quenching ability some 50 times greater than that of vitamin E. 
Statins & CoQ10 Deficiency

Elevated homocysteine was identified over 40 years ago as a better indicator of heart disease than high cholesterol. BUT the medical community took a U-Turn and stayed with the high cholesterol theory. There are several books and articles on this website that discuss (elevated) homocysteine, how it affects your heart health and how to regulate homocysteine. Read more at:
Cholesterol & Homocysteine

What’s Cholesterol Got to Do With It? [NEW]

By GARY TAUBES ~Published: January 27, 2008
THE idea that cholesterol plays a key role in heart disease is so tightly woven into modern medical thinking that it is no longer considered open to question. This is the message that emerged all too clearly from the recent news that the drug Vytorin had fared no better in clinical trials than the statin therapy it was meant to supplant. Read the entire article here...

Statins and Interstitial Lung Disease
Conclusions: Statin-induced interstitial lung disease is a possible newly recognized side effect of statin therapy. The mechanism of lung injury is not defined. The current review provides novel information from the FDA-AER that supports a possible, although unusual, pulmonary class effect of statins. Read the Chest Journal abstract at this link...

Vytorin Cancer Link Opens Can of Worms
Written by Byron Richards, CCN ~ September 3, 2008
"The current study that uncovered cancer risk, called the SEAS trial, was supposed to prove that patients whose heart valves were partially blocked would benefit from Vytorin and not need valve replacement therapy or have heart failure.  In this regard, the SEAS trial showed that Vytorin is worthless, despite lowering LDL cholesterol." Read the complete article here...

The Lessons from Vytorin
Written by MERRILL GOOZNER~ Published: January 26, 2008
What lessons should be drawn from the trials of Vytorin?
For those not paying close attention, let’s recap the events so far (this is my reinterpretation and supplementation of the timeline the Merck/Schering-Plough joint venture, which markets Vytorin, released yesterday) READ more here...

Direct Letter From Dr. Rath
Written by DR MATTHIAS RATH ~ January 22, 2008
Apparently not only the stock markets tumble, but also the much acclaimed hypothesis that cholesterol-lowering reduces heart attacks.Or is there a hidden connection between the two? The timing does not exclude it – nor do the issues at stake. READ more here...

What’s Cholesterol Got to Do With It?
Written by GARY TAUBES ~ Published: January 27, 2008
THE idea that cholesterol plays a key role in heart disease is so tightly woven into modern medical thinking that it is no longer considered open to question. This is the message that emerged all too clearly from the recent news that the drug Vytorin had fared no better in clinical trials than the statin therapy it was meant to supplant. READ more here...

Do Cholesterol Drugs Do Any Good?
Written by JOHN CAREY ~ Published: January 17, 2008
Business Week article ~ Research suggests that, except among high-risk heart patients, the benefits of statins such as Lipitor are overstated. READ more here...

Government Health Agencies Complicit in Cholesterol Ruse
Written by BILL SARDI ~ The revelation that statin cholesterol drugs may be of little or no benefit, as revealed in a lengthy cover story in January 28 issue of Business Week (BW) magazine, begs the question: how did this misdirection go on for so long? READ more here...

Management Of Statin Damage~
One of many excellent articles written by Chris Gupta ~ June 4, 2007

F.D.A. Limits Role of Advisers Tied to Industry
Expert advisers to the government who receive money from a drug or device maker would be barred for the first time from voting on whether to approve that company's products under new rules announced Wednesday for the FDA's powerful advisory committees. ~ March 21, 2007

Big Pharma Research Racket is Killing People
Over the past six years, ten FDA approved drugs have been withdrawn from the market due to deaths and injuries, leading lawmakers to accuse the FDA of not doing its job in protecting the public from unsafe drugs and to call for measures of improvement. Article written by Evelyn Pringle ~ June 24, 2006

FDA accused of suppressing drug safety information (commentary)
Profits first, safety last...
News Target article posted 10/14/05 by Mike Adams

Statistical Contortionism Among Statin Drugs
Article by Shane Ellison - April 23, 2005
"A veil of secrecy obscures the truth behind FDA-approved drugs, especially the cholesterol-lowering drugs."

Doctors in U-turn on advice for cholesterol
A study of 2,277 over-65's - the age when heart attack is highest - discovered those with low cholesterol were twice as likely to die as those with high cholesterol. Newspaper article. [large file - takes awhile to load]

Statin Effects Study at UCSD
A group of scientists, doctors, students, and others interested in understanding the full spectrum of effects of statins and other cholesterol-lowering drugs - including good and adverse effects. Project Investigators: Dr Beatrice Golomb & Dr Michael Criqui ~ Statin Effects Study at the University of  California, San Diego.

NOTE: If you know someone who may have experienced adverse effects on statins, the "UCSD Statin Effects Study" would greatly appreciate it if you would contact them at statinstudy@ucsd.edu or (858) 558-4950. Your input can be of great help to this study.

Frontline "Dangerous Prescription"
Watch the full program online: Drug Safety, Baycol Study, Redux Story, Fen Phen Tragedy, Stifling Dissent at the FDA, Reviewers hushed

National Institutes of Health: Public Servant or Private Marketer?
Written By David Willman Times Staff Writer ~ 12/22/04
For 15 million Americans, it is a daily ritual: gulping down a pill to reduce cholesterol.

FDA lax in drug safety, JAMA warns Independent agency is sought to prevent conflicts of interest.  11/23/04

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