The Cholesterol Myth and Dangers!
“This drug has not been proven to prevent heart disease, heart attack or strokes.”
First let me tell you about my husband and his family – parents and 13 siblings – most have been prescribed cholesterol lowering medication within the last thirty years. More than 2/3rds of them have exhibited not good side effects.
Over those thirty years I have studied cholesterol lowering drugs and found an increase - in those taking the drugs - heart diseases, heart attacks or strokes!
I also found that the drug companies who make those drugs actually tell you that fact if you read the package insert that comes with your prescription, if the pharmacist remembers to give it to you. They have this small print within that insert that states; “This drug has not been proven to prevent heart disease, heart attack or strokes.” Only if you read that insert will you know that and less than ½ of one percent read those inserts.
They lie to the doctors and tell them the opposite of that! I discovered that the pharmaceutical companies manufacturing them have garnered billions of dollars while heart disease and strokes have risen, not lessened as it should have with the majority of people cholesterol lowering.
When Lipitor, the first cholesterol lowering drug, came on the market it wasn’t prescribed until a person had cholesterol over 300, but that didn’t garner the drug industry enough money so they then told the medical world that cholesterol is dangerous if over 200. Then more prescriptions were written and more cholesterol lowering drugs came on the market. Soon after the
heart attacks and strokes increased along with a host of other diagnosis. A few years ago they lowered the desired figure to 150.
Let me tell you that if your cholesterol is lower than 250 to 300 you are truly in danger of heart attack, heart disease, stroke, dementia, poly neuropathy, muscle deterioration, liver disease, kidney.
When the first cholesterol drug Lipitor came on the market I was a Medical Office nurse and handled triage in the office and with home visits. Triage is when patients call or come in with complaints and I had to get their information and pass it to the doctor.
Within the first six months of prescribing Lipitor I was getting calls from those patients complaining of brain confusion, muscle aches and pains, muscle weakness, nausea and vomiting for no reason and then low grade fevers. These complaints were diagnosed as rhabdomyolysis (muscle destroying disease). My internist stopped prescribing the cholesterol lowering drug and went back to niacin,
when I brought his attention to what was happening with Lipitor patients.
All Statin drugs that have come on the market, since the early 1980’s, exhibit serious side effects of which rhabdomyolysis is the most common complaint. rhabdomyolysis destroys muscle cells then releases them into the bloodstream and can cause severe
muscle pain, frequently in the calves or lower back. In rare instances the effects are so severe a patient develops potentially fatal kidney or other organ failure. Most carry black box warnings but doctors mostly ignore those warning or haven’t been told about it.
What has come to light over the last few years, by scientist who became concerned, are cases of severe mental confusion and memory loss happens to many people. Some lost their memory and when they awoke thought they were all the way back to
childhood. Not a pleasant happening. One person it happened to was a Dr. Duane Graveline an astronaut.
As an astronaut, he would was required to have annual physicals done at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. In 1999 his cholesterol hit 280 and he was given a prescription for Lipitor.
"When they suggested Lipitor (10 mg), I went along with it because I had no reason to be particularly worried about statin drugs," he says. However, it quickly became apparent that
something was seriously wrong.
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About the Author:
Author Lena Sanchez, a retired Medical Office Nurse and Medical Office Consultant, took charge of her life in 1992 found healthy drug-free alternatives and pain relief from a multitude of health issues. Now committed to helping others do the same by educating on actually treating illness and disease rather than masking symptoms. Writes and publishes "http://www.antibiotic-alternatives.com/ask_lena_archives.htm Ask Lena Health Q & A"
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