US Doctors Urge Wider Use Of Cholesterol Drugs

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32. No Effing Way!!!!!!

This is more about Big Pharma than it is about actually preventing heart disease. Diet and exercise, NOT drugs, and definitely not poisons like the statin drugs! There have already been studies that show statins not to be effective in preventing heart attacks in people who don't have heart disease. Statins also have some very ugly side effects, one of which can be rhabdomyolysis, or destruction of muscle tissue. You can get leg pain and cramps from taking them--I did--but if you ignore those as some doctors will tell you to do ("Oh, your body will get used to them and the cramps will go away!&quot the drugs can actually cause your muscles to start eating themselves. Yes, really. It took the doctor who did my several surgeries nearly two years to recover from statin poisoning. You think I would touch those things again, or advise anyone to take them? Not in this lifetime! Oh, by the way, before I retired, I was a cardiac nurse. I do know a little bit about how and why these things are marketed and prescribed. I had to keep my mouth shut a lot for a long time. No more.