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Originally Posted by mrsD
Some statins are more lipophilic (soluble in fat) than others.
Simvastatin is one of those. But all statins, are implicated in the side effects profiles. Simvastatin was chosen for the early trials for MSers, with the thought it would enter the brain, and help there. This was totally a failure, and the studies were stopped.
All statins block the enzyme in the liver that makes CoQ-10.
It is your choice. But if you don't stop the statin you will never know if your PN is because of it.
Given the tiny percentages of benefit that are now being quoted for them, I don't see people remaining on them once the push from the drug reps ends. Almost everything doctors and patients know about these drugs was Big Pharma driven until just recently.
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Interesting. How about for someone, like myself, with cardiovasular disease. I am fit, am a vegetarian, at the correct weight, but have had two stents implanted in my coronary arteries.
With the statin, my cholesterol is low off the charts, but am concerned that if I go off the statin completely, it will go up. My cardiologist put me on the statin.
I really would like to eliminate the statin as the cause of my PN.
Wha do the latest studfies show.