Good News!!! No Great News!!! My friend called and with the information that I gave her, she was able to have an intelligent, informed discussion with her Dr. and she is now off all statins. She is so relieved and happy...and I am happy for her. She has had all available tests for heart disease known to man and they could not find anything wrong with her. But because she had high cholesterol, and was uninformed or under-informed about her health options, she was put on statins. She has been worried and frightened for 20 years about an eminent heart attack, even though all of her tests came back negative for heart disease, but because she had high cholesterol, she was told that she could have a heart attack at any minute. Her Dr. has agreed, now, to help her manage her condition, naturally! I'm thrilled for her.
The last time she talked to her Dr. about getting off of these drugs and about all of the side effects that she was experiencing, she was told "You can either die from high cholesterol or you can die from kidney failure. It's your choice." What a difference a little knowledge makes!
If you are confronted with this kind of a situation, do a little research before blindly following the pharmaceutical industries plan for your life!!
Healthy Days to You..Your Smiling Maven
Note... This blog is in regard to my post on Jan 26th.
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