Re: Diabetes and Statins (for Cholesterol) and Alt...

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In a message dated 5/20/2004 4:18:28 PM Pacific Standard Time,

wambo1941@... writes:>

>

> When people take Zetia together with one of the statin drugs, the

> results are much more dramatic. For me, however, while the result was

> dramatic, it was not something I would ever want to go through again.

> The pain was just too great.

>

> Hi Wambo, I really understand. I do great on Lipitor 20mg's. My dh has a

gene that does not allow cholesterol to stay low.(at 21 it was 415) I don't

really understand the chemical breakdowns of why. Some of our kids also have it

and most of his uncles have experienced fatal of heart attacks.

Don was not doing as well on the Lipitor, they kept increasing it until he

was at 80mg's. He has been on a statin since they came out and questran (?)

before that. Don is on a heavy duty pain killer dripped into his spinal fluid,

I

say this because when he'd been on the 80's a fairly short time, he began

experiencing pain in his arms and joints like his arms were going to drop off.

We even saw his cardiologist, unsure if his heart was involved. His primary dr

said to keep taking it, he was sure it wasn't the lipitor. Don stopped

anyway. The pain disappeared. He returned to his dr, who threw his arms in the

air and said " oh " Then he put Don on Zetia, no problems, later they added

crestor. No problems yet, we will keep our eyes open. Hugs, marilyn