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Post by smsmith on Jun 7, 2024 9:55:07 GMT -6
One year ago, my doc cut my statins in half. We will see what she says in a few weeks. She is a good doc and I fear she is near retirement age. I like that she has thought through things, rather than always following the system. I changed to her after our old family doc retired. I remember asking him about me getting Lymes vaccine. He said that I should wait a bit and he didn’t recommend it. A few months later the vaccine was pulled from the human market. I'm on the lowest dose possible of Crestor. I told my G.P. about my concerns regarding side effects. He agreed that if I have issues with the drug he'll change it to something else or we'll drop it completely. I figure I'll give it six months, get my levels tested again and see what (if anything) it's doing for/to me. If I had no familial history of heart attacks or strokes, I would likely not take a statin. I don't think cholesterol is the bogey man that the pharmaceutical industry wants us to think, but I'm also not so foolish as to completely dismiss plaque's role in clogged arteries/heart attacks/strokes.
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