Pulling her hair over cholesterol drug

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I find this interesting about the eyebrows - a low thyroid causes

the outer third or more of the eyebrows to disappear as well as hair loss from

the head. I have wondered before, based on side-effects of many whom were on

statins, how much those drugs effect the thyroid and adrenal glands.

blessings

Shan

 

Pulling her hair over cholesterol drug

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© What Doctors Don't Tell You (Volume 12, Issue 12)

 

In response to MT (WDDTY vol 12 no 11, p 8) on simvastatin (Zocor), after

blood tests, my GP informed me that my cholesterol was high. I was prescribed 40

mg/day of Zocor, later reduced to 20 mg/day with no explanation. The adverse

reactions came in the form of male-pattern baldness and my eyebrows vanished

almost overnight. I began vomiting up to one pint of acid at a time. No

connection was made by my GP between Zocor and these events.

 

Thanks to WDDTY, enlightenment came. I stopped taking Zocor, and the gastric

symptoms have almost abated and my eyebrows are now making a modest

reappearance.

 

I also looked up the drug in the British National Formulary. The 20 mg I was

prescribed is for people with coronary heart disease, which I most certainly

do not have. God only knows what 40 mg is for!- Janet Harris, London