Guest guest Posted November 17, 2003 Report Share Posted November 17, 2003 http://www.kltv.com/Global/story.asp?S=1524465 11/13/03 The Lipitor Dilemma When Brenda Horton found out she had high cholesterol, her doctor said she need to lower it fast. " I asked my doctor what were my options were because I don't take a lot of medications. He said death. Well given those two choices you are going to try the drug, " Brenda says. He prescribed Lipitor, but after a few months, Brenda says she started suffering from chest pains, and felt very weak. " There was a lot of pain and a lot of pressure, " she says. She went to her cardiologist for a check up. The EKG results weren't good. Her heart muscles were weakening and not working correctly. " It doesn't squeeze down as well and that's part of this fatigue and weakness they feel. You can't do what you used to be able to do, " explains Dr. Peter Langsjoen of Tyler. Dr. Langsjoen says it's a common side effect. " If you carefully measure heart muscle function you can see it starting to decline as early as 6 months in elderly people who are taking statins and that's happening in about 70 percent of patients, " he says. Dr. Langsjoen, who has studied Lipitor for more than 2 years, says it causes heart failure because it blocks an essential vitamin called CO Q-10. " That little vitamin is essential for cells to make energy, especially your heart since it never rests it uses a huge amount of Q. Eventually it catches up with you, " he says. It caught up with Brenda. She stopped taking lipitor but still has heart problems. Now she wants everyone on Lipitor to know it didn't help her, it hurt her. .. Michelle Mortensen, reporting. NEW WEB MESSAGE BOARDS - JOIN HERE. Alternative Medicine Message Boards.Info http://alternative-medicine-message-boards.info Protect your identity with Mail AddressGuard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 18, 2003 Report Share Posted November 18, 2003 My Aunt started experiencing muscle weakness after taking Lipitor..........I told her that it could likely be a side effect of the Lipitor..........after reading up on it......I found it indeed it could be and if not stopped could cause permanent muscle weakness. I'm glad she decided to stop. There are a number of alternative choices other than prescription meds for reducing cholesterol. Tammy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 19, 2003 Report Share Posted November 19, 2003 , " Tammy " <tamchapa@h...> wrote: > My Aunt started experiencing muscle weakness after taking > Lipitor..........I told her that it could likely be a side effect of the Lipitor..........after reading up on it......I found it indeed it could be and if not stopped could cause permanent muscle > weakness. I'm glad she decided to stop. There are a number of > alternative choices other than prescription meds for reducing > cholesterol. My Aunt started experiencing muscle weakness after taking Lipitor..........I told her that it could likely be a side effect of the Lipitor..........after reading up on it......I found it indeed it could be and if not stopped could cause permanent muscle weakness. I'm glad she decided to stop. There are a number of alternative choices other than prescription meds for reducing cholesterol. Tammy Hi Tammy! Yes, there are any number of ways to reduce cholesterol, and of course in this, as with any health problem, diet plays a key role. I and others like myself have achieved this purely through watching our fat intake and using the right supplements. This is something we do not hear on the evening news but it is possible to achieve this! Most of the cholesterol lowering drugs, statins especially, are linked to irreversible muscle deterioration. They interfere with our natural bodily processes in other ways as well for we NEED cholesterol, per se, for the making of our hormones, etc. and all of these drugs lower cholesterol to dangerously LOW levels which cause other more severe health problems as well. Cholesterol lowering drugs really do not lower our risks of heart disease anyway so why take them? Cholesterol isn't the only contributor to artery plaque and although it is wise to limit our intake of saturated fats when experiencing these problems its not the saturated fats directly that cause the problems either,… it's the harmful toxins that enter our body from processed foods (synthetics, additives, transfats) and the toxins we take in from the atmosphere that cause the problems. They enter our bloodstream and the plaque is formed as a sort of defense measeure by our bodies (immune system) to fight off environmental invaders (from both our foods and atmosphere)! This may be a relatively new thought to many of us, although it is true and much research points to the fact that if everyone was able to get at least 20 minutes to a half hour of sunlight each day in addition to a healthy diet free from transfats etc., they wouldn't experience high cholsterol as we know it! Whenever we take in enough sunlight (vitamin D from sunlight is irreplaceable in terms of health benefits, you can't get it from a pill!) the cholesterol doesn't build up in the bloodstream and the body is able to utilize it for other purposes! The vitamin D in direct sunlight is necessary for this! To achieve this one has to spend at least twenty minutes to a half hour of their waking hours outside on a sunny day. We do not get enough sunlight as a nation. Dr. Lorraine Day emphasizes this in her books and videos. www.drday.com Daily exposure to sunlight played a key role in her breast cancer healing! Many of the benefits which are attributed to outdoor exercise do not stem from the exercise at all, but rather from the benefits of the sun's rays in producing vitamin D and metabolizing harmful cholesterol before its able to do its dirty work in our arteries and other parts of our bodies. So we see, its really a combination of things that cause *high* LDL cholesterol and not just the cholesterol itself as the MDs would have us to believe. Cholesterol is a natural substance from foods. By itself it is not harmful. It is the way our bodies process it, or rather does NOT process it, that is harmful! I have found that good health is not found in a pill. And the ones that allpathic medicine offers especially!! They just cause more severe problems (most of what we call *aging* is traced to these drugs) and exacerbate an already serious condition, usually!! All the best to you and yours! JoAnn mrsjoguest DietaryTipsForHBP http://www.geocities.com/mrsjoguest/CholesterolFacts.html http://www.geocities.com/mrsjoguest/Goodcholesterol.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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