Statins

[hc4361]

In the news now, but what is the downside of statins?

[Bazile]

//.....I could be wrong and live.....or die....to regret my decision but I trust my instinct more than I trust the doctor who wants me to take them. //

gness - if you die you cant regret it - can you ?

[hc4361]

I've always eaten plenty of oily fish, at least twice a week.

[gness]

Look, Bazille.....when I die I am not leaving....I will be the ghost of AB...haunting you all.....☺

Seriously....Of course I don't want to die early or live after a stroke but I do want to live feeling as well as I do now and not how I felt when I was taking statins. A choice we have to make sometimes.....☺

[sunny-dave]

Mass medication on a scale beyond anything previously dreamt about.

I'm just not sure I want to be part of this huge experiment - but my GP wants me to because my own risk level looks horrible ... until you remove the 'family history' component.

My father was hugely overweight, smoked 40 Senior Service a day and regarded any exercise beyond picking up the TV remote as an unnecessary evil. The only surprise was that he lasted until his late 60s before succumbing to the last of a decade of heart problems.

So why is that factored in to my score when I haven't smoked for 35 years (and only dabbled a bit then), take reasonable exercise and am only just above the putative BMI limit.

I tried statins when I was first scared into compliance, hated the side effects and will need some pretty good evidence based on my own data before I even consider trying again.