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Originally Posted by kemokimo
Apparantly my vitamin D levels are fine. I have not had a heart attack. I did experience atreal fibrilation many years age, perhaps 20, due to over exertion and emotional strain.
With regard to my initial cholesterol level, maybe what I should do is get off of Lipitor just long enough for my cholesterol level to reach its unaided (by statins) level. I don't know how long that would take. I have no idea what my cholesterol was before I started taking statins 25 or 30 years back nor can I recall who my doctor was at the time.
When you say 1000 mg of the active form of B12, what do I look for at the pharmacy.
When you say an integrative doctor, are you referring to an internist?
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Yes, Nature's Bounty is fine... take it on an empty stomach..always. This is the first excursion into a local pharmacy that I know of. 6mos ago you'd still have to get it online.
Costco has their own brand now, too.. a big bottle of 5mg. Since hubby and I both use it twice a week at the 5mg dose, this saves us more money than even Puritan's did!
I think it takes about 3 months for cholesterol to return to pre-statin levels. Since you were on it so long...it might take longer. Typically suppressing enzymes is a problem in the body...and it can take a while for them to wake back up. There might even be a rebound effect if the body wants MORE cholesterol to get you back to its designed "normal".
It can also take a long time to recover from the PN if that is what your trigger is. We have some members here who recovered some after stopping statins, some who refused to stop the drug, and left, and some who did recover at least 50% within a year.
A poster friend of mine on the PD forum has posted some genetic studies that show some people are more prone to statin damage than others. If you search "statins" on there here, you'll find alot more than what I post about. The poster's ID is olsen, if that helps. We exchange links fairly often.
Because the negative effects of statins have been suppressed,
by Big Pharma... there is still a lack of enough data to give a more accurate estimate for you specifically. The CoQ-10 will help with your heart muscle and other muscles, but the jury is still out about nerve damage per se. Statins do so much damage all over sadly!
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