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Started Repatha - Side Effects
Heart & Blood Health | Last Active: May 13 10:19am | Replies (507)Comment receiving replies
@mdeblaey539 I ask myself the same thing all the time. My bottom line is that I won’t take a medicine (unless it is a short term fix) that makes me feel bad so that I cannot be happy and active. I decided that I’d rather live a shorter time and enjoy my life than a longer time feeling bad. Then I started thinking that maybe it will the same regardless of whether I take the medicine or not. There are a lot of credible articles and books out there about the statin myth, the faulty studies and Big Pharma push so that everyone takes statins. I don’t know. If it hadn’t made me so sick I probably would have taken it. Right now I’m taking Nexletol and it’s not making me sick. I am continuing to do yard work, walk 8,000+ steps a day and practice yoga. If it starts making me feel bad I’ll quit. At least I now have a cardiologist that understands and respects that.
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@llynch17056 I have found that some medicines cause other conditions which I really dont want. When I was taking the statins my doctor told me I was diabetic because my A1C was 6.5. it was never even mentioned to me before. He said I could control it with diet and exercise which I have been doing but that statins can cause that. I did the daily testing and my A1C did go down but why do I have to take one medicine to control one condition that gives me another condition that is worse. He would not admit that the statins caused the high A1C. When I went off them my A1C is now below diabetic level without the diet and exercise. The statins made my whole body ache and made me diabetic. Guess it means Im not diabetic anymore and I dont ache but I have high LDL. Hopefully the repatha will work when I go back on it but Im not counting on it. So depending on which medication you take, you have to choose what disease or side effect you want to have. It all seems ridiculous.