Insidermedicine in 60 - January 18, 2008

[tickyul]

I truly believe that statins caused my father to have a stroke. At 75 his doctor said he had some plaque in his arteries (never effected him from what I saw) and prescribed a statin. After that it was all downhill, muscle wasting, weight loss, pain, eventually onto oxygen, amnesia, dementia and eventually a fatal bleeding stroke at 79.

[SuddenattackGaming]

@tickyul Omg.. i am sooo sorry :'(

[tickyul]

@SuddenattackGaming Thanks, the old man disintegrated in quite short order, a very nonlinear decline, then death. But, these things are being pushed by all of the doctors now, they tried to get me to take them. There is a website called "askapatient", it is filled with comments about statins (and other meds), most of the comments are very negative.