[email hidden] (fresh~horses) wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...
Quoted message said:"Statins are categorized by the FDA use-in pregnancy
ratings under category X. Category X is defined as
"adequate well-controlled or observational studies in
animals or pregnant women have demonstrated positive
evidence of fetal abnormalities or risks." (from a
Canadian pharmacist.)
Would you want your daughter taking these drugs, then
becoming pregnant and learning at, say, three months
gestation, of their potential for fetal abnormalities?
When would it be too late to quit taking them?
Category X drugs should not be over-the-counter.
Zee
However, there may be a built in fail-safe here:
If our fictional woman has been taking statins for a couple
years, she will likely already have mitochondrial damage
caused by cholesterol depletion, which then effects
dolichols (precursor to coenzyme q10); peripheral
neuropathy, polyneuropathy, pancreatitis, gall bladder
disease, cognitive adverse effect including transient global
amnesia, short term memory loss, aphasia including language
and vocabulary loss, thinking and learning difficulties
particularly of organization and other executive functions.
She may also have mitochondrial myopathy including muscle
pain, weakness and atrophy and will have joint pain. She may
have ocular myasthenia, chronic sinus condition, chronic
plantar fasciaitis and gout.
A real hottie.
But all is not lost. As the statin Pharmas would say, statin-
induced fetal deformity would be a rare occurence. They
may be right:
news.bbc.co.uk678811.stOpen ↗
Zee
