War against Statin Deniers
The bloody awful Daily Fail, aka Mail on Sunday, has sunk to new lows.
Attacks on the "Statin Deniers" ... The deadly propaganda of the statin deniers: The drugs DO protect you from heart attacks but as this devastating investigation reveals thousands are refusing them Dr Malcolm Kendrick, Dr Zoë Harcombe and Dr Aseem Malhotra are all deniers Millions of middle-aged people who would benefit from taking statins, don’t Research suggests many who refuse the pills have already had a heart attack This could be because they've been led to believe that the drugs don’t work That's just the headline!! Long Article here: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/...propaganda.html First read about this attack from Dr. Kendrick's response: https://drmalcolmkendrick.org/2019/...lesterol-games/ How he keeps his dry wit about him, after the paper initially was going to state he wasn't a GP and wasn't in the NHS is beyond me. Quote:
Then Zoe's response: http://www.zoeharcombe.com/2019/03/...mail-on-sunday/ with of course, detailed references to studies supporting their claims. Quote:
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Almost decided not to add it here but the last two links have many studies and good responses to this inflammatory press. The statin gang out to get Dr. Malhotra must really be fried that he has such a high profile and spoke to Parliament recently on diabetes. |
Jesus wept.
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It's really horrifying. I'm one of those very rare people who experienced one of those insignificant side effects from a statin. If I had continued on the drug I have no doubt that I would be in a wheel chair now, my joints destroyed. The side effect from not taking a statin is much improved health.
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Stupid question, but can someone remind me why statins are bad?
(That's not sarcasm. My husband was recommended statins a few years back, and we said no. Made some dietary changes instead, and have continued to refuse. I just can no longer remember the REASONS that we used to back up the decision. I know we had them, and they were convincing.) |
The major issue is that statins are prescribed to lower blood lipids, cholesterol and LDL. Recent findings question the validity of either being a reliable health risk indicator. More so, increased LDL as we age may in fact be protective and beneficial. This is the main issue I have with prescribing statins.
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My heart transplant team got me on it due to cholesterol being high cause of me losing 78 pounds on LCHF, and well heart transplants are different in every way lol. So I might need to be on it but it was doing weird things to me so I have been off for a while. |
When I took Lipitor it caused severe joint pain. I could only walk up and down stairs like a toddler placing one foot and then the other one on the same step, holding onto the railing all the way. I would be in so much pain when I woke up in the morning it would take me about 30 minutes just to get out of bed. This pain developed gradually. When I went to the doctor, someone who was filling in for my regular doctor who was on vacation, she told me to stop the Lipitor. I thought she was just trying to get rid of me but within 2 weeks of stopping it all my join pain went away never to return. This was enough to convince me never to take a statin again. I know that this is just one anecdote but this was not a minor side effect and clearly it was common enough that this doctor recognized the cause of my problem. I had been taking the drug for over a year and the problem developed gradually so I would never have linked it to the Lipitor but clearly that was the cause.
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I pray I never have to deal with a doctor telling me to go on a statin. I would need to have a whole page of info to just hand over in place of my words.
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Thank you for posting this.
I stopped taking statins months ago / last year. I stopped opening news sites that take so long to load with all of the bells, whistles, malware, viruses, worms, etc. I guess I could copy the url and open with a proxy server - which would be the only case nowadays lol. :) |
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Scan back through 5 or 6 pages on this cholesterol sub-forum, and you will find thread titles for Statins and increased risk of Diabetes, ALS, Muscle Damage and Joint Pain to name a few. I think the one for me, beside the lack of evidence about risk of higher LDL, is Diabetes as a side effect. Even the statin supporters admit there is an increased risk of diabetes, which in itself, is linked to an increased risk of heart disease. One article looked at statins from a Numbers Needed to Treat (NNT) to find the benefit (Low) of preventing a cardiac event vs the % risk of becoming diabetic. Here's one thread about the large study done in the military Tricare system...risk of diabetes increased 87% https://forum.lowcarber.org/showthread.php?t=467249 The details from Amy Berger: http://www.tuitnutrition.com/2015/0...d-diabetes.html |
For fun, take a look at the side effects for this one class of statins. The statin ads on TV that speed talk their way through a long list only touch a few of them :lol:
https://www.drugs.com/sfx/simvastatin-side-effects.html |
The Bitter Statin Debate on DietDoctor. Long article at link.
As with the comment section at the Daily Mail article, within an hour of posting there is a comment about painful side effects even after trying different brands and low doses. https://www.dietdoctor.com/the-bitter-statin-debate |
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Another one of those spooky coincidences after my post on the 5th ....NY Times had an article on 3/7 titled, "Statins May Increase Risk of Diabetes" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/07/...f-diabetes.html
And DietDoctor today titled "Statin Induced Diabetes, what’s the scope of the problem ". https://www.dietdoctor.com/statin-i...-of-the-problem |
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