Statins

CRody44

Statins have been shown to cause muscle atrophy and weakness, and there is growing evidence that they can also cause cognitive as well as sleep problems. Does anyone know, if you stop statins, how long it would take for these issues to resolve themselves?

Don’t want to be rude, but please don’t respond if you don’t have medical training in this area, have done research or have personally experienced this. This is too serious for an uneducated guess.

FairyMiss

interested in hearing about this as i am on a statin. have not noticed any differences but i am also really bad at taking it steady.

RAFValentina

Then don't ask here! Go to the docs!

Anybody could reply and say they've got medical expertise/knowledge/experience. If you've been put on statins, it's best not to muck about with medication without being under the supervision and care of a medical professional.

manjingirl

Statins have been shown to cause muscle atrophy and weakness, and there is growing evidence that they can also cause cognitive as well as sleep problems. Does anyone know, if you stop statins, how long it would take for these issues to resolve themselves?

Don’t want to be rude, but please don’t respond if you don’t have medical training in this area, have done research or have personally experienced this. This is too serious for an uneducated guess.

Don't want to be rude, but why are you asking this on a fitness/weight loss forum? How do you know the responders will have medical training?

Probably best to discuss the side effects of statins with your doctor - she or he is obliged to disclose the known side effects and the frequency if they are going to prescribe them to you. FYI - the Mayo Clinic site has some useful general info on statins and side effects.

kaetra

My doctor told me to take my statin just before bedtime. I've been using non-generic Crestor every night and I've had absolutely zero adverse side effects.

jenro39

I am on statins and had muscular problems as well as compartment syndrome (permanent shin splints) which has left me unable to run. I was taken off my statins for 3 months and then sent to Oxford for nerve ending tests, they told me at Oxford that it would take up to a year for the statins to be fully out of my system as have been on them for many years to get a true result. Dont know if that answers your questions but I think everyones different as my dad was put on statins and started getting all sorts of side effects and was told to go off them straight away, he did and his symptoms disappeared quickly but then he had only been on them a month.

KavemanKarg

Since doctors graduate they pretty much rely solely on drug companies for their ongoing education, especially about statins and cholesterol.

BTW, the Jupiter Study, which if you read what JUPITER stands for you will know was biased right out of the gate, is being promoted to doctors as proof that everyone should be on statins. (Justification for the Use of Statins in Primary Prevention: An Intervention Trial Evaluating Rosuvastatin trial)

If you look at the data you will see that those on statins had fewer heart attacks, and few non-fatal heart attacks.

However, they do not provide the data for the fatal heart attacks. And when you do the math, you subtract the non-fat heart attacks from the total heart attacks, you will find that 9 people died of heart attacks while on statins, while only 6 died who did not take them, due to heart attacks.

Perhaps this is the reason the study was cut short by over 2 years?

Sure, you have less chance of a non fatal heart attack by 44%, which is what is promoted, but you also have an increased relative risk of a FATAL heart attack by 50%, which was NOT announced, and in fact hidden from the published statistics, requiring discerning analysis and application of grade 4 math to uncover.

Please understand that the profession suffers from all human failings, including greed and bias.

In the Harvard Nurses Study, low cholesterol levels are actually INVERSELY correlated with all medical causes of death for women. In other words, the HIGHER a woman's total cholesterol, the longer she lived. This was a VERY long study, and this aspect was not announced in the conclusions, but required examining the data and came out during peer review.