US Doctors Urge Wider Use Of Cholesterol Drugs

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95. Worse, some of the "Side affects" is the drug making you "normal"

For example all during my youth I heard of people having hunger pains, never had them myself, till I was put on a Statin. Then after not eating for three to four hours I would get hunger pains. Why, one of the affects o high Cholesterols and High Triglycerides is you do NOT get hungry. Your boyd has sufficient amount of both (in fact to many) so the body never thinks it needs more food (Even when it does). Thus the reported side affect of Increase Hunger pains, may just be the body adjusting to what is normal, but the person who first gets these "pains" do not think them as normal, for they nerve had them before (or if they did no where near what "normal" people get).

One side affect of Statin I do notice is if I miss taking them for three days to a week, my desire to have sex zooms up. I never notice a decline in sexual desire as I took Statin (I am single), but when I get off them I notice the huge increase (I would say woman be careful of me when I miss my pills, but I like sex when the women I am having sex with tell me how well I am doing, rape has no appeal to me even if I have been off my pills for a week or more). Is this a side affect of the Pills? Maybe. Testosterone is derived from Cholesterols and is one of the closest hormone in the body to Cholesterol.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testosterone#Biosynthesis

Thus when I quit taking Statin, my Testosterone may jump up do to having many more Cholesterol hormones to convert to Testosterone. I may NOT have noticed the increase Testosterone in my teen years for I assumed it was normal for teens are told of sexual desires and sexual changes. Today, I may have become adjusted to lower sex drive and when I am off my pills I just notice the increase sex drive.

Just pointing out that some of the reported "Side affects" is the pill returning someone to a "Normal" situation. It is something we must watch for when we start to take some of these medications and do not confuse the affect of being returned to normal with a harmful side affect.