and the anti cholesterol pills go directly to taking the brain fat out first.. takes about a year so no one connects the two. logic that everyone i ever knew that had alzheimers all took anticholesterol drugs and ate low fat meals on top of that. the ones who ate regular fat foods did not show up as quickly as the food counteracted the pills.. been known a long time.

Back in 2010, I told an Airforce Dr at the base hospital I was no linger going to take statins, as they cased extreme joint pain, and, I was willing to take a few years off my life when I was 90, to avoid living the rest of my life in excruciating pain.

I told her, "Prescribe all you want, I will not fill it."

You should have seen her face... never looked back.

ha ha. essentially the same thing happened to me.. saw what drugs were doing to my hubby. he had one kidney. that was the source of their fear tactic. of course all drugs would make it worse. he didnt even know he had one kidney till he was 50! and was fine. then he was scared all the time.. it was amazing. i wonder if anyone else he married would have overseen him like i did. got him off all meds.. just turned 78. still has lingering body damage as a result of meds that took his small frame but muscular away to make him thin and weakened. even with supplements he never recovered that.. but i am blessed we are still going strong no matter what..

I am sorry he had to suffer all that - he was lucky to have you there to show him another path.

in 2004, 3 months after my first statin exposure, I was diagnosed with Non Hodgkins Lymphoma - to this day, I blame the statins for that.
My body was trying to protect itself from the med attack.

It took a few years of pain for me to finally make the connection to them in 2010.

The only med I have to take now is for a destroyed thyroid - because of the cancer treatment.

Other than that I have only ever been to the dr to get repeat thyroid prescriptions, since 2005.