General Chat

I dont take any drugs for mine, doc didnt prescribe any. Suggested walking 30 mins a day. Have to admit I havent done any for a couple of yrs now. Early this year I had high blood pressure, a friend who is a docs nurse (not mine) told me to have 3 des.spoons of oat bran a day. Have been doing so. Blood pressure has been coming down since, probably the bran clears out the cholesterol from the arteries. I have one spoonful in my muesli/porridge in the morning, sprinkle a spoonful on my bread/marge/marmite/lite cottage cheese for lunch and for my desert at dinner I have muesli and oatbran again (with green top milk of course.) Could get a bit boring but when I go to town for the day I break away from the diet. BUT I really do need to get more exercise. Somebody drag me away from the computer!

I took statin drugs for nearly a year, I was so tired by tea time I could hardly move plus the joint pains,,My Dr told me to take red rice yeast and drop the statins, I have and Have no side effects and remain lowering my choles, however I am in the US and they are available at the health food store...They did a 10 year study and they proved to be more effective than statins with no known side effects...hope this is helpful...you can google, red rice yeast..

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My husband takes so many tablets and he is not to sure which one is doing it.... but he gets dreadful pains.
His hands are sore, his joints and thighs are sore.... all since he has been on these tablets.

It would be a good idea if doctors told us the side effects to look for, wouldn't it?

Deanna X

DL... that sounds like a good idea. I wonder how easy that would be to find over here in England?
Deanna X

Am I going mad, I am sure there was a thread with Simvasatin as the title which I replied to. am I imagining things. Or was I just wasting my time replying to it?

Ann
Glos

no you ain't going mad Ann - I replied under your reply and then whoosh - it disappeared!!

Oh dear, sorry Ann and everyone. I deleted the other thread, as someone bumped this one up for me which I had forgotten about. Didn't want to be accused of repeating a thread. So sorry.

If you do that it is best to copy and paste any replies onto the other thread then we know we are not seeing things!!

Ann
Glos

Sorry Ann, just didn't think.

I have just checked with OH because he has recently started taking statins, and it is the one you mention.......he did have pains in his wrists last week, a bit like cramp after you use a screwdriver for a time......but nothing else since.....

I'm on 40mg, started couple of weeks ago after heart attack. So far no prob's but only out of hospital since Tuesday this week. Intend to have a word with GP soon as not happy taking Statins

Thanks everyone, and sorry to drag this thread up again. I should have gone to my GP ages ago like I planned, but thought I would try to persevere with them. It has got to the stage now though when I have had enough of feeling so unwell and just wondered if there were others feeling the same. Thank you all for your replies. Will go and see him next wekk for definite.

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