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| Thread ID: 137924 | 2014-09-09 05:13:00 | Talking of strokes. | Cicero (40) | PC World Chat |
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| 1383520 | 2014-09-09 18:25:00 | Seems most on here are for statins, probably for good reasons. This is one argument from the other side. www.telegraph.co.uk |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 1383521 | 2014-09-09 20:22:00 | Well I know a few people who had immense problems caused by those drugs...the side effects are terrible, all for a theory. I won't list it all, it would be huge but it was very interesting......at one point with one of them they had him lined up for bypass surgery....this has now been cancelled and he has been told his arteries are all fine. And his symptoms on that were digestive related. He stopped taking the stuff, all his weird illnesses disappeared. Medicine has a history of weird stuff being used, and dubious "research" methods being used until the right info was found. In 100 or 200 years the modern world will look back and laugh at some of the things we came up with. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1383522 | 2014-09-10 01:39:00 | That's my train of thought, nothing wrong if you don't get it checked Until you wake up dead one morning... |
johcar (6283) | ||
| 1383523 | 2014-09-10 01:40:00 | I'm not an expert but I'd say try a better diet and exercise first | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1383524 | 2014-09-10 03:59:00 | It doesn't really matter either way, anything that helps to reduce the human population can only be a good thing. :devil | Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 1383525 | 2014-09-10 04:12:00 | It doesn't really matter either way, anything that helps to reduce the human population can only be a good thing. :devil I suspect that our oldies on here don't want to think of negative possibilities. Richard must find it hard to sneak up on people rattling as he must. |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 1383526 | 2014-09-11 22:29:00 | After years of attempts to get my cholesterol down via diet and exercise, my GP finally admitted that some people simply can't control their cholesterol levels that way. Apparently a LOT of people cannot lower their cholesterol via diet and exercise. My GP suggested statins, and talked me through the pros and cons. At the end, I asked her whether she would take them if she was in my position, and she was definite that she would. So I did. Presto, my cholesterol levels came down to a reasonable level. I have atrial fibrillation, which raises the risk level for a stroke quite significantly, so it seemed like a no brainer for me to try to remove one of the risk factors if I could. No regrets thus far... |
John H (8) | ||
| 1383527 | 2014-09-12 00:57:00 | Apart from the side effects that some people get from taking statins, there seems to be questions as to whether having high cholesterol actually is a risk factor for atherosclerosis ie "hardening" of the arteries leading to strokes and heart attack. Pctek implied this in her post with the comment "all for a theory", and Cicero posted a link putting doubt on statins. If you Google there are heaps of screeds casting doubt on the use of statins. Most GPs from what I gather, appear to be operating within the current accepted wisdom, and are concerned about high cholesterol. It seems the jury is out on the matter. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 1383528 | 2014-09-12 01:52:00 | The Pharmaceutical industry have a vested interest in us . All the movies I have seen,suggest they push medicine in the name of profit, not our wellbeing. |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 1383529 | 2014-09-12 02:03:00 | Naturally, they aren't going to do it if it doesn't get them any money | Agent_24 (57) | ||
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