NOT ALL STATINS ARE EQUAL FOR LOWERING CHOLESTEROL

I recently had my quarterly visit with my lipid specialist and I'm now back on a statin. The statin Iam taking is not as strong as the one I took about a year ago. I am now taking Lipitor. I was on Crestor and Crestor is a much stronger statin then Lipitor. THe reason given to me by the pharmacy is Crestor lowers cholesterol much faster than the other statins.

I was on a combinatin of Crestor and Niaspan and the side effects I had from the combination have subsided on a scale from 1 to 10. Iam an 8.I still have some neuropathy and my bones do not creak as much as they did. Just a little. On the mend.

Usually some one in my age is not treated as aggressively(that 29 and holding group) but when asked if my calf hurt I had to say no it does not.

My vit D level was 20 and this was with taking the vitamin previous to the testing. I am taking 1000mg of Vit D and it seems to be working.

My ldl without the statin was high all other labs were normal.

I have to thank my doctors for putting up with me. I was not the ideal patient. I do not suffer in silence, something akin to the Princess and the Pea.

I have taken a statin on and off over the last 10 years with B12 and folic acid for a high Homocystine and when I had my heart cam done I was in the 20% group. This is good but there was a lot of material around the area.

The treatment I had and still continue is called Preventitive Cardiology and this is the name my group of doctor's go by and how they treat.

Treatment is geared to individual needs and how I was treated may not be the same as someone else.

I had to decide where I was going with my treatment and make the decision as to what I was going to take, along with my doctor's input.

I will continue to post on the mechanisms of lipids and report my progress .

Stay healthy