You are a good friend to care, but when everything is stacked against you and you are left impotent, what else can you do?

It is small consolation that you can come here and vent, but we are here to listen.

Dave.

I don't know if members here are aware of lawsuits. A friend said she is involved in a class action lawsuit re: Lipitor. She took it for 30 yrs and has been dealing with neuropathy for about 15 yrs she says.

https://www.lawyersandsettlements.co...l#.Vl-2DnarQb0

You're all nice having patience with me!

Now he was diagnosed Charcot foot instead. Before they didn't care about his glucose levels (they won't go down since he started statins) but now they are all over him about the sugar level.

They put him on more meds, now he takes 3 different opiates. They're mad?

This is from Dr. Brownstein's recent blog. I get all his info. He goes into statins on article. He talks about a new flu vaccine too in one of the side articles. Just thinking about a bridge friend I had not seen in over a year, well I saw her this past Saturday for a bridge sub we needed and I could hardly believe how her memory and recall was so poor. She had always been a top notch bridge player and thinking about this she could be in dementia and wouldn't doubt she's taking statins.

http://blog.drbrownstein.com/we-take...ription-drugs/

Caroline,

Do you know what conditions your bridge friend has, or the meds she takes?

Dave.

No Dave I don't know anything about her health or meds. I saw her a year ago and before that some yrs. She lives in another town from me and I call her if we need a sub for bridge and can't one a person close to our area. I got to thinking about her after reading some of the comments here on memory, recall etc. She's is on the heavier wt side and most of the ladies I play bridge with see conventional MD's....so that's why I am thinking that. She moaned and groaned about arthritis when we hugged one another. Another clue about the dementia thought, she didn't drive over, her daughter dropped her off and was picking her up. She always drove before. She just seemed so dis-oriented at the bridge tables.

It is sad to see friends deteriorate and not be able to participate as they once did. Clearly, her family see, at least, a physical decline if they are driving her around. Thankfully, if they are doing that, they are on top of any other issues.

Dave.

Reply...I was on Lipitor for several years. 10 months ago, I came down with burning, red foot. Out of the blue. I know of no injury that might have started it. I found that side effects listed include nerve damage. I was also on blood pressure med called Enalapril. It also has nerve damage listed as side effects. I have no way of knowing for sure that the meds gave me CRPS, but I won't take them. Modern medicine probably saved my life, especially the surgical procedures and pacemaker, but the drugs are a two-edged sword. While they may help you, they also may be harming. Medical science is still in the experimental stage. Going for help is a gamble.

Sorry to hear of your misery with Lipitor. I have heard and read so many stories on it's use and damage. I take a few meds, very few and each time my neighbor goes to see a conventional MD for something she is dealing with, she leaves with a script for some drug and when she does her research on it, ends up not taking it. Works to seek out alternative remedies that could help her issue. So often the remedy is worse than the health concern. I have educated myself on the "cholesterol myth" and Weston Price Foundation has a lot of info for starters. You can google this foundation and read about cholesterol. There are books written about the cholesterol issue.

You know there is a Peripheral Neuropathy section here.

My friend is missing. Since he is overseas I can't simply walk over there. Tried his phone. He does not answer it. Either he forgot about me and answering phones, or worse, he had a health crisis and maybe he is even dead.

There has to be a balance though with western medicine. Those strictly against it have caused damage as well. I am one of the few (?) that actually take antidepressants for real depression, not for minor things that they sometimes are prescribed for.

The meta study about them being as "bad" as placebo caused my country which has universal health care, refusing covering many antidepressants. So if I want to live, I have to pay up, pay what it costs. And I'm already under the poverty level. And no, I cannot get any benefits whatsoever for this med, because some sloppy study rendered it useless and my stupid government saw a chance saving money.