US Doctors Urge Wider Use Of Cholesterol Drugs

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57. There ws a discussion about these meds here at DU some years back.

The discussion ended up getting over 400 replies.

And of that small a group of people, at least four people reported that their close relatives had been lured into taking the anti cholesterol drugs, and had ended up with ALS. Some of the relatives had rather low cholesterol, to boot, but their doctor acted alarmed, and the person had given in to their demands. (The whole thing seems to me profit-motivated, unless your cholesterol is over the top high.)

And once that diagnosis of ALS is reached, it can't be undone - not even if the person immediately stops taking the statins.

Anyway there is now a whole body of information out there that anyone taking the statins should also take Co Q 10. That without doing that, you could be in trouble.

My experience reading this discussion made me very wary of the drugs. My doctor a few years back was "shocked" my cholesterol was at 160. (And 160 is very normal in post menopausal women - it's almost a given.) I quit seeing that doctor.