I'm worried about taking statins and side effects

Because of my various muscle and nerve problems I refuse to go on a statin. My doctor prescribed praluent injections and my cholesterol has dropped like a rock! I give myself injections every two weeks. No other side effects.

No I haven’t yet. Statins really scare me though. The one I just stopped taking was causing muscle and joints to feel worse and had headaches like I never had before! Hoping for something other than statins.

Hmmmm... I will have to research this! Thank you!

@mfv. Diet is important and exercise I tried to adhere to this diet for cholesterol but I couldn't my cholesterol is inherited from my Dad so have to take a staton Bit of you'd is,nt then the diet will work Talk to your Dr about this

@barbie. That's great

I regretfully started taking statins to reduce inflammation, which they have been shown to do, rather than address my high cholesterol. I asked my PCP numerous times to help me get off them because the daily side affects of aches in my leg muscles, knee and joint pain (particularly knees) and short term memory decline are worse than considering my dieing from a high cholesterol event sometime in the future -- which I'm not convinced would happen, frankly. He refused to even talk about it, so I have found a new doctor who focuses on nutrition and integrative medicine. I'm confident she will be more on my wave length regarding food as medicine; and I have implemented many lifestyle changes that should lower my cholesterol. However, she isn't taking new patients until August. I've been reluctant to quit them cold turkey; so my wonderful TCM functional medicine healer who identified and is treating my leaky gut is helping me get off them. I was interested in how my cholesterol numbers plummeted when I went on statins and went up again (not to the same heights) after being on the keto diet. My current, but soon to be former, PCP hates the keto diet and intermittent fasting...so we are definitely not on the same wave length.

I had problems with muscle pain on statins. Experimented with different statins and doses until I found one that worked--rosuvastatin--at a low dose (5 mg every other day). I also incorporate American Heart Association lifestyle guidelines, which are essential for heart health.

#tim128 I am on the same abating after trial and error

I am very lucky that a low dose rosuvastatin both solved my myalgia and lowered LDL below the recommended 70 mg/dL level. I am one of those people who do not believe in the One-Weird-Trick theory of preventing heart disease. I use lots of beneficial tools to help, including lifestyle modifications. From the FWIW Department, an 'optimistic' attitude has been shown to reduce the risk of heart attack. And as a postscript, I have been able to conquer sleep issues after working on these for a long time.

@tim1028 I'm glad to hear your trying all tools In 1996 I had a triple by pass but am healthy today using all the tools at hand Number 1 is My CEO is God or a higher power whatever you believe then heart healthy diet ,exercise some not strenuous at my age and living right you keep it up bravo for you