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Medication linked to Peripheral Neuropathy

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thanks for your comments, I look forward to communicating with more PN
individuals.running and walking has been part of my life for many years. you mentioned that you used a timer to remind you to move, I have an Apple watch
which my kids gave me 10 yrs ago, didn't use much at first but I'm now on my third one latest generation. reminds me to stand/move keep tract of some vitals
and notifies family or ? if I have fallen...lots of other features...there are many other similar products by other providers, my watch is paired to my apple phone.I am on the statin for cholesterol control which statins have been good for me but always wondered if related to progression of neuropathy. good luck and hope you can get into some exercise program(have you tried stationary bike, not so hard on your back)

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Ray Kemble | @ray666 | Jun 7 10:04am

Good morning, Dick

I was a running fool in my younger days, as any here know; I shied from team sports as a teen, instead ran track. Then years past with my running nary a mile––until the '70s when the running craze kicked in. Watching Shorter win the Olympic marathon got me all fired up to start doing miles again; I continued doing miles until bone-on-bone plus a TKR in the early 2000s put the kibosh on my running days. So I sympathize with all you say.

I'm afraid no Apple watches for me. I'm an old-fashioned kind of guy: I abhor "devices." LOL That's why I love my kitchen timer with it's incessant tick, tick, tick. The fewer devices (i.e., all things digital––with apologies to this MacBook Pro!) I have around, the happier I am. I may be the only guy in Denver whose only clock is an analogue clock. LOL

My question to my PCP about continuing vs. discontinuing the atorvastatin has all to do with that particular med being what seemed a "sidecar" med ("Let's give Ray some of this too, just in case … ") when I was in the ER with the septic infection. None of the hospital docs were able to connect a specific septic symptom to the specific statin they were prescribing. When it comes to drugs, I'm kind of the same guy who shies way from all things algorithmic: the fewer, the better! LOL

A stationary bike? Yup! It's a old squeaky one, but it's right here in the room with me, just beyond my kitchen timer.

Have a glorious weekend, Dick.

Ray (@ray666)

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