Comments on: Lipitor, Alzheimers & MS: The dangers of symptom management

By: drtim

drtim — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 20:05:41 +0000

I’m so sorry to hear about your husband. We try to show folks a better way. Manipulating the body’s natural functions is dangerous…as you have learned. Best wishes for the future.

By: Marjatta Lavin

Marjatta Lavin — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:49:49 +0000

Dear Pamela, Your story does not surprice me. This happens atleast here in the U.S. because mostof the medical research hospitals are funded by the pharmaceuticals and the doctors are educated by the same people.
Instead calling doctors medical doctors, we should call them pharmaceutical doctors. Because that is all they can do.
Lipitor has crippled my husband. 7 years 40g. We victims need to band together worldwide to stop this abuse.

By: Susan

Susan — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 05:19:15 +0000

I cannot agree with you more! The drug companies are hiding the fact that statins can cause the onset of Alzheimer’s. My father took Lipitor for an elevated cholesterol for years, but when his MD retired his new physician double his dose of Lipitor (still within the pharmaceutical company dosage guidelines) and he shortly developed early signs of dimentia. He was later diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease that progressively worsened. His Neurologist confirmed that the increased dose of Lipitor caused my father’s Alzheimer’s.

By: Pamela SP

Pamela SP — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:23:34 +0000

http://www.stangardnermd.com/2008/08/11/is-cholesterol-as-bad-as-they-say/#comment-169
A brilliant article above that gives you all the fact on Statins

By: Alzheimers disease news

Alzheimers disease news — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 18:55:12 +0000

Data from the study, the largest of its kind, contradicts some previous studies that found that ibuprofen might exceed others in its class when it comes to preventing this type of dementia. Besides ibuprofen, other types of NSAIDs include naproxen and aspirin.

But the bottom line, the study authors said, is that the findings don’t support the use of NSAIDs to prevent or treat Alzheimer’s, at least not yet anyway.

By: Pamela SP

Pamela SP — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 09:00:24 +0000

Went to see the Neurologist at the Memory Clinic in Cambridge yesterday with my hubby. We filled the questionnaires in 5 weeks ago when I was still on Statins – so he was about to condemn me to a life of dementia.

To say he was flummoxed was putting it mildly.First of all he tried to tell me that I had Carpal Tunnel in both hands and that I should have the steroid injections – as recommended by the neurophysiologist a few weeks ago. Hubby pipes up ‘Well how come she has it in her feet too’? Round one to us.

Next he says that my symptoms are incredibly vague and diverse. I then handed him the ‘Stopped My Stains Questionnaire’ with every box ticked except Impotence + another 20 or so extra symptoms added by myself that I have suffered. Well he just didn’t know what to say. Mumbles that he had heard about a minority of people who have had SLIGHT MUSCLE DAMAGE from statins – but never memory loss! Well I couldn’t believe what I was hearing – this was one of the most senior consultants in Neurology in the UK who doesn’t believe/know that statins cause memory loss!

In his summing up he stated that my symptoms were very real to me, but were unsubstantiated medically. And that’s when I hit him with the big one – prolapsed bowel/bladder – he couldn’t get us out of his office fast enough when I requested a MUSCLE BIOPSY – with him saying that 5 weeks down the line would be to late to prove anything. So that’s how it is in the UK – thought I’d share that with you all.Pamela SP

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