August 14th, 2010 -- Posted in cholesterol medications |
If high cholesterol can’t be lowered through diet and exercise, a prescription statin can help
What you should know:
•Statins can lower cholesterol by 60%
•Statins have good safety record
•Be careful when taking a statin with other drugs
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•Cholesterol-Lowering Medications
If you have high cholesterol that you can’t lower through diet and exercise, statins are a good treatment option. Some of these medications – which include atorvastatin (Lipitor), rosuvastatin (Crestor), lovastatin (Mevacor, Altoprev), pravastatin (Pravachol), simvastatin (Zocor), and fluvastatin (Lescol) – can lower your LDL (“bad”) cholesterol by as much as 60 percent, depending on the dosage and your particular cholesterol problem… Read more: http://bit.ly/bOa3gH
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Transcript
Hi, I’m Vicmar Toro and I’m a CVS pharmacist. If you have high cholesterol, and you aren’t able to lower it through diet and exercise, a prescription statin can lower your cholesterol as much as 60%.
You may be prescribed a statin to help control your high cholesterol if you have an LDL level higher than 100, an HDL level at 40 or below, and you have two or more of these risk factors: you are a man over 45 or a woman over 55, a smoker, have high blood pressure, or have a family history of heart disease, diabetes, or coronary heart disease.
Like other cholesterol-lowering drugs, statins have a good safety record and are easy to take. However, as with any drug, there are potential risks that you should be aware of, such as liver inflammation. Because of this risk you should limit your alcohol intake, or completely avoid it while you are taking statins.
Rhabdomyolysis, which is severe muscle damage, is a rare but serious side effect with an increased risk when statins are combined with other drugs, so be sure to tell your doctor and CVS pharmacist all the drugs you are taking, and ask for a list of drugs that interact with your statins. If you experience general weakness, dark urine, unusual pain, or tenderness in your muscles, particularly in your back and calves, talk to your doctor immediately as these could be signs of rhabdomyolysis. Other potential side effects of statin therapy include fever, nausea, and vomiting.
If you have any questions, ask your CVS pharmacist. We are happy to help.
Source: CVS Caremark Health Resources
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August 14th, 2010 -- Posted in cholesterol diet |
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Things You Should Know About Heart Disease And Cholesterol Lie
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Things You Should Know About Heart Disease And Cholesterol Lie
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August 4th, 2010 -- Posted in cholesterol |
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With raising obesity rates in America, children are actually being found to have high cholesterol. Does your child need to be on a drug like Lipitor, Zocor or Pravachol for their health?
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July 25th, 2010 -- Posted in cholesterol medications |
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Serious side effects have been reported for Lipitor and other cholesterol-lowering drugs – the so-called statins – prescribed to millions for preventive purposes. The prescription of these drugs is based on the discredited hypothesis that high cholesterol levels cause heart attacks. The cholesterol myth has been one of the most long lived falsehoods around – probably because it has been excellent business, both for large pharma producers as well as for the food multinationals, who introduced margarine telling us how much healthier it is than butter.
There is an easy, widely available nutritional solution to heart attacks: Vitamin C. Needless to say, taking more vitamin C has been opposed by big pharma and its mainstream medicine followers for decades.
When a “preventive” medicine causes severe muscular degeneration as a “common” side effect, something must be awfully wrong. Jonathan Campbell examines the side effects and postulates a mechanism – proposing an astonishingly simple remedy.
Lipitor – Reports of Neuromuscular Degeneration
by Jonathan Campbell, March 16, 2004
Numerous adverse side effect reports have implicated Lipitor as a possible cause for severe neuromuscular degeneration. Some people who have been using Lipitor for two years or more report symptoms similar to multiple sclerosis or ALS – Lou Gehrig’s Disease – in which they are losing neuromuscular control of their bodies.
For instance, in an article entitled “Life After Lipitor” that appeared in the newspaper Tahoe World on January 27, 2004, Tahoe City (California) resident Doug Peterson began having serious neuromuscular problems after taking Lipitor for two years. He began losing muscular coordination and slurring words when he spoke. Then he lost balance, followed by loss of fine motor skills – he had difficulty writing. He went from doctor to doctor, trying to figure out what could be happening. Finally one doctor suggested that he stop taking Lipitor, and the downward health spiral stopped and his health is now slowly improving.
These adverse effects have begun appearing in peer-reviewed medical journals, and numerous people have reported similar symptoms at public adverse effect reporting websites such as medications.com. People have reported “trouble swallowing, trouble talking and enunciating words, feeling fatigued all the time, neck aches,” “motor neuropathy which mimics ALS,” “Blinding headaches, nausea, vertigo, disorientation, memory loss, extremely dry eyes, pain and stiffness in my neck and calf muscles, abominal pain,” and “Muscle pain, weakness, spasms, buzzing in right leg. Can’t hold arms or head up in vertical position for 2 minutes without extreme pain and weakness.”
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July 17th, 2010 -- Posted in lowering cholesterol |
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This natural solution is a safe alternative to statin drugs that are usually prescribed by doctors but which have numerous dangerous side effects.
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