Re: Quick Cholesterol question

September 4, 2004

AMEN!

> Doesn't it seem strange with all the problems with Statins that docs

> don't at least TRY the non-statins with people before starting them on

> the statins? My husband's cholesterol is almost 300 and his

> triglerides

> are almost 500. The doc put him on Lipitor without trying anything

> else

> and didn't even give him exercise & diet guidance. The drug companies

> have WAY too much power over the docs.

>

> A ADAMS wrote:

>

> >Cholestramine is what Dr Cohen told my endocrinolgist that I should

> be taking and what was prescribed for me. My endo made direct contact

> with him before she would prescribe anything. He told her that under

> no terms was I to be put on a statin drug. He also told my primary

> care physician the same thing in a letter written last March.

> >

> >Alice

> >

> > That is the generic and it really isn't more for tri's than

> cholesterol

> > from my reseach. The powder form may help with tri's in addition

> to the

> > cholesterol, but not the pill form.

> >

> > cghng888 wrote:

> >

> > >I knew I was spelling it wrong too. I was just too lazy to check

> the

> > >spelling., Actually it is dispensed to me under the name

> > > " cholestramine " . Celia

> > >

> > >>

> > >>>>>

> >

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