HealingWell
Search Close Search
☰

Statin Recommendations

Support Forums
>
Prostate Cancer
✚ New Topic ✚ Reply
1 2
❬ ❬ Previous Thread |Next Thread ❭ ❭
Posted 2/11/2023 1:15 AM (GMT 0)
You should have quoted it in your response for the win…
Posted 2/11/2023 12:01 PM (GMT 0)
Sorry...I edited it down. No win for today...

Jim
Posted 2/11/2023 1:53 PM (GMT 0)
Thanks Jim for editing the long scientific article that I posted. I did not know how to link said article so sorry if I caused a problem.

Dave
Posted 2/11/2023 4:22 PM (GMT 0)
Dave, no problem whatsoever and thanks for the interesting article!

Jim
Posted 5/6/2023 12:22 AM (GMT 0)
A follow up to when I started this thread several months ago…

I continued to do my research. I also used the ASCVD risk calculator which seems to be based on what my doctor has referred to. The bottom line is that the only factor that reduces my risk of heart attack or stroke is to reduce my age. I already eat well, exercise a lot, and abstain from vices (OK, a craft beer now and then) so I figure I’ve done all I ca at this point. Some of the research also indicated that the statins can reduce the risk of developing the age-related cognitive issues.

I had my blood work done a couple weeks ago and my total cholesterol was 172, the HDL was 46, and the LDL was 105. That LDL has been about 125 for the past half dozen years but over the past few months I’ve upped my soluble fiber intake quite a bit so I got that needle to move some. But not enough so I elected to try the statin.

He started me on 40mg of Lipitor and, so far, no issues but I read that it can take 4-6 weeks for side effects to kick in. In 3 months we’ll check the blood again.
Posted 5/7/2023 12:28 PM (GMT 0)
Vince, like you I am on 40 mg of Lipitor and have been taking it several years with no problem. Crestore did give me leg pain.

I take the Lipitor, along with Eliquis, for blood clotting issues (pulmonary embolism and a stroke). I eat mainly a Vegan/Mediterranean diet.

I am 76, and exercise a couple of hours per day. Swim, pickleball and walk. In the past I ran and did triathlons, but the knees have worn out.

I do not like taking the statin or eliquis, but figure my diet and exercise was not enough to protect me.

Oh yeah, a couple of years ago my wife's PCP started my wife on 20 mg of Lipitor, for all of the same reasons you have been given. My wife, a nurse practitioner, was skeptical (she had great lipid panels) and asked her medical friends and did research …. bottom line, she went on the protocol. No problems with 20 mg Lipitor.

Post Edited (RCS) : 5/7/2023 4:42:02 AM (GMT-8)

Posted 5/10/2023 4:03 AM (GMT 0)
I've been on Lovastatin for years. Currently Cholesterol is 160, triglycerides 53, LDL 98. To my best knowledge I have no side effects. Are my knees stiff? Does my right knee hurt sometimes? Hell yes. But I'm 77 years old and I do a lot of physical work, and I'm also on Lupron and Zytiga. I'm not 19 any more.

But I don't think much of anything trying to slow me down is other than being 77 years old and getting on with my life anyway. I'm sure some people do have side effects from statins. But I also think a lot of people read things online or in the news and then go looking for symptoms amd attribute them to whatever medication they are on. Bottom line, I say don't go looking for or expecting trouble, because if you find it it is likely something you would otherwise just suck up and ignore if you didn't know you were on some med with effects you read about in the news.
Posted 5/10/2023 2:01 PM (GMT 0)

Bohemond said...
…Bottom line, I say don't go looking for or expecting trouble, because if you find it it is likely something you would otherwise just suck up and ignore if you didn't know you were on some med with effects you read about in the news.

Yes, it’s called the “nocebo effect” when the expectation of side effects become a self-fulfilling prophesy.
Posted 5/13/2023 10:47 PM (GMT 0)
I've tried many statins and wish I could find one.
I have a few issues of chronic pain and each statin has had the same effect of very bad muscle pain and spasm. I'm not sure why and as said I want to be on one.
Thankfully my cholesterol levels are not sky high but do run 180 to 210

Glen
Posted 5/14/2023 9:46 AM (GMT 0)
I've been on statins for years. 15?

I suspect, like most things medical, at a certain point all our responses, side effects, good, bad, and ugly are individual. None of us know, before the fact, which side effect profile we will land in.

At a certain point, we all have to make treatment decisions based on the best information, using our own process, and then find a way to roll with the outcome. Nothing is guaranteed.
Posted 5/15/2023 1:13 PM (GMT 0)
I have been on a rosuvastatin-Plavix 40mg for about 11 months. No negative side effects and my LDL went from 125 now at 35, and tgl cut in half and back in the low risk range. So far, so good.
Posted 5/21/2023 10:49 PM (GMT 0)
I have my yearly echocardiogram next week and will see the cardiologist the week after.
I'm going to ask about going back on a statin. The benefits seem such that I suppose it's worth another try.
I've got so many chronic pain issues to begin with and hate to add to them. Maybe I'll get lucky and find a statin with less muscle ache issues.
I'll Google them in hopes of finding one with less muscle pain issues.
I'm 70 and want to be as healthy as possible.

Glen
Posted 5/29/2023 2:56 AM (GMT 0)
Glen-- Your cardiologist has a larger selection of newer LDL lowering drugs than statins if myalgia is an issue, for example PKSK9 and ezetimibe.
Posted 6/7/2023 8:09 PM (GMT 0)
Thanks Tim G
I've started back on Crestor 5mg and so far no muscle aches beyond the usual aches and pains.
Since I'm usually in pain anyway, I figured I should add a statin because my cholesterol is a little high and the HDL is not good.
I've also began a clinical trial of a blood thinner. I was going to switch to Eliquis anyway because it has a better bleeding profile than Xaralto. Now I'll be on either Eliquis or Asundexian the trial medication.
The reason I wanted to switch was hematuria caused by a radiation treatment induced stricture. So far after balloon dilation it's been doing well.
No blockage or hematuria

Glen
✚ New Topic ✚ Reply
12