A new study shows that Statins — taken by nearly 25 million Americans —are causing muscular pain, weakness and cramping for a growing number of patients.
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Study Confirms What Many Patients Taking Statins Have Said for Years | NBC Nightly News
Statins Can Trigger Tinnitus , Make It Worse With Possible Irreversible Damage !
The new meds (Repatha) have the same muscle side effects as statins. It doesn’t matter how you lower cholesterol, your muscles need it for healthy cell walls, protein synthesis and mitochondrial health. Repatha is especially bad because it’s very strong and stays in your body for 2 months after you quit taking it. By the time I figured out that it was causing my muscle problems my muscles were ruined – and it’s permanent. I can’t walk 5 steps now without feeling like I just ran a marathon and they hurt 24/7. The makers of Repatha know it has muscle side effects (JAMA 4/16), especially if you’re intolerant to statins but they have chosen not to include this in their patient information.
The truth is statins and repatha do work to lower cholesterol but these drugs will “divorce” you if you don’t make healthy changes to your lifestyle. I was on statins for years and I ignored any painful side effects. There didn’t seem to be any pain. However, Crestor was like: “I’m gonna fix your wagon since those side effects don’t really bother you”. In time, my LIVER ENZYMES went Super High. The doctor took me off of the statin and now my cholesterol (especially ldl) level went off the charts, with not even eating that bad. Now the doc is trying to get Repatha approved for me. Bottom line: you gotta make an effort to lower your cholesterol with statins. If you don’t, these drugs will make sure to screw your life up and will indirectly threaten you with dire circumstances. They will force you to cry eventually if you don’t change your diet and exercise. The doctor can take you off of it!!!!!!!!!! Don’t end up in that situation!!
Statins do not prevent heart attack! This is one of the most prescribed medicines today that was an invention solely made for making profits. It now comes with an FDA warning it can cause diabetes type 2. This happened to my Mom. I have high cholesterol my whole life. My Dad had chronic heart disease from young age, very fit runner. He was the only type person who should take Statins. Stay away from them! Take a fibrate
after 5 yrs of taking the medicine and suffering from memory loss and other sleep disorders my cardiologist finally listened and reduced the strength but did not take me off of it. today, I’m healthy and lost 19 lbs – I still take it but it’s a reduced mg – the side effects are real and should not be ignored.
I had the same awful pain. It got so bad I had trouble getting up in the morning. My doctor recommended I take CO Q 10. That helped.
I know you are not aware of Tinnitus Meds from Dr Madida on YouTube. I used it and was cured completely of Tinnitus.
Nobody even needs a statin…the truth is out there…..The media is paid by Pharma …..they promote an alternative $$$$……Nobody needs a statin look for the truth!
It can mess up your liver making your eyes yellow. This stuff is dangerous.
Crestor is complete garbage i was perfectly fine before taking it, had a mild heart attack at 20 years of age.
Dam the patients, full profits ahead
Go on a whole food plant based diet instead!
Propaganda. Statins dont work “wonders.” They lower testosterone in men which leads to all kinds of associated negative health consequences. All about money for doctors, legal drug pushers for American addicts, and big pharm.
My doc just prescribed Lipitor even though I just got a 0 CAC score. I’m 65. My cholesterol is 263/LDL166/HD 73. I’m borderline so he did the CT calcium scan. ZERO PLAQUE. I hate taking pills. My mother has dementia and I’m more worried about that than a heart attack.
Guess what folks… Virtually ALL cholesterol lowering drugs are unnecessary!! There are about 200,000,000 people on this nonsense worldwide. Disgusting. Recent meta-analysis (in JAMA) of 21 studies (about 450,000 people) shows that statins are essentially worthless. Reduction of absolute risk of stroke = .4% for instance (4 TENTHS of ONE percent). Throw away you sugar and wheat gluten, eat good fats, and exercise. GET healthy to STAY healthy. Don’t rely on these Big Pharma poisons.
They lie about statins, they are 1% effective. And worse. Docs get paid to push this horrible drug.
How is it this video was uploade 6years ago and PCP Dr.s’ are STILL prescribing statins with such severe side effects?
Yeah that’s right cut the bad cholesterol @ 14,000 a year. What is going to be the next wonder drug for cholesterol? Any guesses?
“Ya’ll come, we got the fixins for your symptoms. Ya’ll come back now ya hear.” Oh yeah you’ll be back for more fixins because you will have more symptoms that need fixing. Your PCP doesn’t have a clue. Ancient Ayurvedic Proverb “Without nutrition medicine is of little use. With nutrition medicine is of little need.” You get the clue.
My doctor suggested to me that I take medication for cholesterol because I’m diabetic (I’m actually type 1.5). I asked him whether it was high or low, and he said it doesn’t matter as he put his hands up in the air. He still wants me to consider it! How can it not matter??
Do you want Type 2? Statins cause that. My dad wasn’t diabetic and became Type 2 because of this poison. I got him off this garbage but, the damage was done. Doctors seem to know very little for all the time spent in school.
Funny how they admit side effects as new drugs are being touted. This news story would have never been done without the introduction of the new drugs while pushing to make it approved for more people. The news is just a giant infomercial for big pharma and the war industry.
You probably won’t need statins or any other cholesterol lowering drugs if people eat a wholesome diet and skipped animal products, sugar, salt, oil and processed foods. After all, do humans have a “statin deficiency”?
might want to skip or limit bread or flour also… at least cut back.
@Kim Brown Potassium bromate is also illegal in the European Union, Canada, Brazil and elsewhere because it causes cancer in rats and mice. In the United States, however, it has remained legal since it was first patented for use in baking bread, in 1914
Was on statins and got knee pain and could suddenly not walk up a hill when I was a daily jogger. Stopped statins but lowered my bp to normal with low gluten, sugar, salt and replacing A1 dairy with lower amounts of A2 dairy. Added brocolli, flax seed and tumeric to omelette each morning(1 egg). My doctor is facinated, but we don’t know which dietary change did it, just that this diet works for me instead of statins. Knee fine, stamina returning.
These drugs were made for profits, a scam. Cholesterol high or low or high LDL does NOT cause heart disease. Lowering it causes damage to all organ systems.
I have taken 80mg of Atorvastatin for 20 years. Zero negative side effects from them.
The vast majority of the public is too stupid to understand the need for double blind testing to rule things out or to verify a theory.
No matter what patients’ “feelings” are about causation. Facts over feelings is what is necessary in medicine. A concept that extremist conservatives
(republicans) and extremist centrists (democrats) are incapable of understanding.
Doctors never listen to patients who advocate for themselves.
Yet doctors in Australia hand them out like candy. Go on a healthy diet, meat chicken fish and vegetables and a handful of berries – you won’t need statins ever again .. best place for medicines is in the bin
Fun fact: when statins were being developed in the 1970s, the scientists found an identical natural compound in _koji_ (Japanese red rice) called monacolin which reduces cholesterol even more than statins. As a result, US FDA banned the sale of koji extracts but allowed statin medication.
That’s the power of big pharma. They want you to get the cure from them and not some farmer from across the globe who will sell you something more effective at a fraction of the cost.
SURPRISE…….CHOLESTEROL IS AN ESSENTIAL MOLECULE, STUPID TO SUPPRESS IT, FIND THE UNDERLYING CAUSE OF ARTERIES CLOTHING UP !!! YES THE ANSWER IS MEAT AND NO PLANTS !!! Try it it, it might work for you too !!!!👍🙏😄
I’m on red meat, hard cheese, and a full saturated fat diet – never been healthier. Doc says he’s shocked at my physical fitness and clear & pristine arteries! >:D
My mom and people she knew had terrible pain from statins. Of course, her doctor dismissed it. Good thing she stopped taking them anyway.
Truth about statins
https://youtu.be/BzTjPuikhQE
No evidence, and can seriously harm you.
People need to stop calling LDL cholesterol “bad”, the effects of too low LDL are far worse than the effects too high LDL
My father at the age of 74 had never taken medication in his life and was fit and healthy. His GP prescribed statins soley because he was
over 50. His health went downhill from thereon. His doctor’s response was to up his statins to 80 mg and one medicine after the other to counter all the side effects.
Statins plus all the other medicine destroyed my father’s health and eventually killed him.
I got sick on statins so they gave me Repatha injections and Praululent too — both gave me debilitating weakness and pain. I have familial hypercholestolemia and I can’t take these drugs’ side effects. 😢
The new class of meds is just as bad. Look at the studies — they say no muscle pain bc they got rid of the test subjects that complained of pain. 🤦🏽♀️
“Horrible side effects of statins……for roughly 5% of statin users”.
psychosomatic means you don’t get to sue the drug companies… doctors are paid and bought by drug companies
Doctors aren’t taking it so how would they know…🤔
My personal experience of lipitor 40mg kept taking me to the hospital more then 7 times in 11 months. Each time a three day visit. I have been saying all alone to doctors I think it’s the meds you are giving me. I saw I was talking to deaf ears!!! On the 11months same day of leaving hospital a Cardiologist just happened to walk in my hospital room seeing me weak and out of breath then he said THAT IS MEDS DO THAT TO YOU!!! Then I told him the Cardiologist I have been saying it for 11 months but not listed!! Deaf ear to busy making money for the Drug companies and getting thier kick backs too. I stop taking lipitor now I can walk again and breathe again too!!
How can I send her a sharp knife? This is me.
No health reason to manipulate cholesterol levels.
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Statins are one of the biggest frauds perpetrated on mankind. I had the muscle cramping. My doctor said he had never heard of such side effects, or seen it in another patient. In his waiting room the patients nearly always appear to be at death’s door. Perhaps statins and Covid have been designed to thin the herd, or in other words, save Social Security and Medicare from insolvency? I know, it sounds sinister or fodder for the conspiracy theorist, but just think about the convenience for our overlords.
Eat right and get off your you know what.
Pravastatin causes dementia.
14000 dollars for a few pills??!!
Study confirms what patients said ok that’s how studies work 😅
Strength building EXERCISE!
I had horrible nightmares and suicidal thoughts for the short time I was on a statin
Guess what. Niacin (B3) will do the same thing. Lowers LDL & Triglycerides, raises HDL – and the ‘side effects’? It reverses pain & atherosclerosis, etc. Do the research……
My doctor recently changed my medication from pravastatin to atorvastatin. But since the change, I’ve noticed an increase in heart palpitations. Is this normal? Help please.
This almost killed my mother. I personally have a desire to burn and destroy any and all companies connected to statins.
i never trust any meds doctors give to people
Can’t trust many doctors due to the high kickbacks they get from pharmaceutical companies for placing their patients on statins/Zetia and such. I myself tried many different statins and could not take the side effects! Im 57 and on ZERO meds. I will roll the dice and when it’s my time it’s my time. No joint pain and happy!
I’m on for 5 weeks and every joint in my body is killing me. Miserable
The research doesn’t support the benefits
just started them 21 days ago….the pain started, dismissed it to overwork. pain progressed,thought I overdid it again. Started suddenly finding it hard to do things I could before with no problem. the pain got worse DAILY. the pain became searing and unbearable. excruciating pain with no relief, no sleep soooo awful- then I realized the culprit. I hope I can recover from this 21 days of poison pills in my body 😩 .thank God I realized this. detoxing and flushing this out of my systems. my doctor just loooooooves pills. he is the Johnny appleseed of pills 💊 . he doesn’t listen either. and I have had much worse than him.
“They thought it was all in their heads, but a new study confirms that the pain is real”. I’m not sure what you think pain is my friends, but I can assure you that even if your leg is being hacked off with an axe, the sensation of pain is not being generated by your legs. They’re just sending electrical signals out. Pain itself is always, all in your head.
Statins at best are useless. They lower fat but fat or cholesterol is needed for brain function. There is a link between dementia and statin drugs.
It’s a myth that high cholesterol is bad.
Been taking for a month now and I’m in agony it’s not worth it I have to stop can’t even sleep at night
Try this to lower cholesterol and get off that statin bc it causes diabetes and dimentia and/or parkinsons. Try this
Red yeast rice Costco leeder brand
Cholestoff by Nature Made
2 morn and 2 night
Aug to Nov
270 to 170
Those were notes i made a friend who works at a doctors office suggested it bc her husband went from 270 to 170 taki g the vitamins from august to november. Its worth a try. Takes 3 days to get oit of hoir system. My mom got diabetes and now dimentia so im frustrated right now told her starting tomorrow u gotta get off this statin bc i told her yrs ago this was going to happen. Got the stuff at costco too.
And who is it that trains GPs? Drug companies. Change your doctor. Change your diet instead. Educate yourself. Take responsibility for what you put into your amazing body.
Vit B3 niacin reduces blood cholesterol…
Tinnitus has being a torment to me and I tackled it, get it cured with a treatment from Dr Madida on YouTube. Felt better than ever now.
This news channel has Zero credibility.
A statin drug has turn my hair almost black, I am 67 years old, also my hair is blond.
Any medical evidence against drug manufacturers will be resisted. Die taking medication and suffer or die without medication, the choice is ours. I had no side effects from taking statin but then decided not to take it and I found no difference except saving money by not taking medication. As a matter of fact, I hate medicine like blood pressure and I try to avoid them as much as I can I am doing well, healthwise. Our body has got the mechanism to regulate our body we do not need all these costly and at times useless medications. And by the way, after stopping or reducing the dose of some medicines with the consultation of my doctor, I have regained my memory.
Please anybody share your experience with this Repatha drug? Do you have to take it for life? Any complications after 1 year ?
You’re in debilitating pain? Must be crazy 😂😅
I take them and I feel literally the same, quit the sensationalism.
How about memory loss, kidney damage, liver damage and the fact that they don’t prevent heart attacks and stokes? That’s what they don’t tell you.
IT DOESN’T PREVENT HEART DISEASE!!! THEY ONLY CAUSE ALZHEIMERS!!!
HIGH CHOLESTEROL ISN’T A MEDICAL PROBLEM!!!
Rosuvastatin made me stop walking! I have been stuck to my bed for 9 months now!!
And I don’t know if I will ever walk again!
My dad had COPD but was managing it very well with diet, exercise, and, moderate meds (when needed). Being a heavy smoker in his youth he had to undergo heart surgery and was immediately, put on statins. When his whole personality changed and the pain and induced diabetes took over, I intervened. He was afraid to say anything to me about the meds believing doctors know best (yeah, right) but I got him off everything except the one heart med that was needed. So, from 10 meds to 1. Sadly, the damage was done and he died a couple of years after that. I’ll see a doctor if I have to but, they’ll never get me on these drugs or, any drugs for that matter. So much for the Hippocratic Oath.
Cigarette smoking again
this looks like an onion video xD
The lipid hypothesis was only a theory. But sales and marketing ran with it and the public bought it. Cholesterol deprivation can lead to serious health problems effecting both mind and body. Just my opinion.
I just tell people about Relative Risk and that while yes the drug lowers your risk by 50% it’s hardly helping when your Absolute Risk is about 5%.
The statin does lower cholesteral numbers,but it lowers the light fluffy ldl which is the GOOD LDL THAT YOU NEED…you really need to measure your particle size,if your ldl is high it dont mean you need to do a thing!! and to get rid of small ldl and raise your hdl STOP EATING SUGAR AND PROCESSED FOODS your body will do the rest
Well doctors still want you to take it because of money 💰
Why don’t these patients just change their diet to reduce cholesterol instead of taking meds? Stop shoving crap into their mouths. Are you absolutely sure that LDL are the bad cholesterol? AMA has been wrong so many times.
I’m not sure, so I’m going to keep on eating the red meat and cheese and see what happens. 🙂
OFC NBC is selling new medication after admitting drs were lying to their patients and saying they were “delusional”
“Psychosomatic” is another way to say patients are lying, and are exhibiting drug seeking behavior …..😂
Science can be so stupid…
I don’t understand how psychosomatic even exists in a doctors vocabulary!!! If a patient isn’t feeling pain why are you in business being a doctor?!
Just exercise eat well and don’t get fat, don’t smoke and keep away from doctors
Eat healthy exercise dont eat processed foods and artificial sugars. Stop the drugs. This drug ruined my dad’s health. I hope he survives this now
Low carb is all you need
How would low carb lower their cholesterol?
There are so many more very serious side effects from statins than discussed in the video.
Repatha is no better.
In order to test for Hereditary High cholesterol the doctor is required to do genetic testing… which they don’t do… they only guess.
I started getting upper extremity weakness within 7 days of starting statins. The pharmacist said I had a reaction to it, let alone long term intolerance
If you take statins add vitamin k2 ,and b ,fish oil to it the vitamin k2 guides the meds and vitamins to correct locations.
Really?
Commitment to a natural diet making your body move a lot and china seeds will do it,I am sure there are many other effective natural means to drop your numbers, but I know what worked for me to drop mine by a hundred points in a year.
Statins ruined my leg muscles. Now I have bilateral foot drop
Clown world
Or you could just use Gemfibrozil, been used for many , many years & covered by insurance.
In my case when I do something, my muscles and joints don’t get tired, they seem to freeze and lock solid long before that, then the next day is really painful! Statins? I have no idea!!
Don’t take drugs. Eat less meats and dairy. Let yourself age peacefully.
Lying doctors $$$$$$$$$$$
0:49 So…doctors denied symptom manifestations in favor of their pet theory by gaslighting their patients and conceptualizing it as psychosomatic?