Sharon Hope <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:Anna,
Do not permit your husband's doctor to ignore this symptom.
We'll make sure the doctor is aware of it. I'm sure that there are
other factors in play here though. If you search on "heart lung
machine" and "pump head" you'll find similar symptoms.
Quoted message said:
Please see the following (in addition to the full text of this study):Australian Adverse Drug Reactions Bulletin (Australia's equivalent to the
FDA)
Thanks for the links. I'll look at them. Do you have any studies relating
particularly to pravastatin?
I was sorry to read in another of your posts about what happened to
your husband. Did the deterioration stop when he discontinued the
statin? Or is it progressive? I think you are right to make people
aware of what can happen. There are so many "murmurings" around
about statins and in the light of what happened with valium and prozac
a certain amount of scepticism is justified when we are told that the
latest miracle drug should be in the water supply. [There was a study
in the UK a while ago recommending that people should take statins
and other medications *before* they had any symptoms!]
And a question for anyone else who has taken a statin: How much
did it actually reduce your cholesterol? A friend who tried all the dietary
means possible, and actually lost far too much weight in the process,
was unable to move her level from 10. A statin magically reduced
her level to 5. [British figures: I'm not sure what the US equivalents
are but 10 is fairly dreadful and 5 is borderline acceptable.]
Before his MI's my husband's level was 5.5. It is now 3.5. But
I wonder how much of that reduction is attributable to the statin?
He has drastically changed his diet and that must have affected
the level to some extent.
Anna
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