Statins are vile things. i refused them about 18 years ago when they said my cholesterol was highand I have had no problems whatsoever. There is no medical evidence that they prevent heart attacks or strokes in women anyway.
readThe Great Cholesterol Con by British GP Dr Malcolm Kendrick.
Side effects can include memory loss, aching joints, forgetfulness, diarrhoea,extreme tiredness etc. I saw my late Dad deteriorate in just a few weeks when they put him on them at the age of 80.
Good to know. Iām waiting to hear about my cholesterol test I had last week. First one I have had in 9 years (is that normal?). If itās high, Iām not taking statins.
Bet you anything they will say itās high because the level is now so low and the more people they get on statins the more the GP practice gets paid.
Ahh, I seeā¦so whatās the ānew normalā then? Last time I had it done it was ridiculously low, like 2. It was done because I requested it back then, but now they asked (unexpectedly) that I come in to get liver, kidney, and cholesterol checked. āJust routineā they said. 
To be honest, since I have been on statins I have not felt any aching joints, suffered diarrhoea, etc.
On the other hand, my memory has not been great, I often feel tired and I forget things all the time, but I have suffered all of these long before I began taking statins!
Kendrick has a reputation that stinks.
I have followed his progress for about 20 years and am impressed.
You say what you like! You probably stink more than he does 
I think statins are much the same as any other drug, in the way that they donāt suit some people, but are no problem at all for others.
When I started a long time ago, I told them I would give it a try but only if I had the lowest dose possible, and I have been fine.
We are all so different, so its inevitable that no one pill fits all.
I was very bad after my Covid vacc, and got whisked off to hospital (5 times), but others sailed through it with little or no problems.
My brother died when he was 63 and my father when he was 71 both from heart attacks caused by arteriosclerosis. I will be 85 later this year and I have been on statins for many years and reckon they have given me an extra few years. I donāt have any obvious side effects.
Good for you, Scot. Glad to hear something positive. 
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Statins is a group term, many different types.
The first one they gave ne did cause problems.#
I an now on Atorvastatin which does not cause me any problems.
Just got to this thread. Iām on Atorvastatin with no problems but V had to come of it because she had muscle pains caused by taking it. The one she takes now is OK for her.
Oh I forgot to update thisā¦I received my results back, and all is well. Iām not too happy about the cholesterol though, which is 4.8 according to them. They said it was ānormalā (which is 5, I think, before it starts being a concern), but Iād like to get it down a bit.
4.8 is fine Pixie. My cholesterol result from a few weeks ago was 3.6 which, to my mind, is verging on the too low side.
Oh is it? And do you think the statins are contributing to it being that low? See this is what I donāt getā¦the doctors just have a chart to read from, and apply that to everybody, regardless of their lifestyle and diet. I eat fairly healthily (I believe) so would like to see if I could make changes to my diet, before I get much older and require medicinal help. (Not against any outside help, but Iād rather be in charge of myself if possible!)
Sounds fine Pixie. Why would you want it lower? Our bodies need cholesterol.
Iāve told this story on here before but a few years ago our Practice Nurse retired from the surgery having worked there all of her working life. She told me that during those years the cholesterol target level had come down and down and that now so many more patients were being described as having āhigh cholesterolā. She also said that it was only in recent years that people had been routinely called in for cholesterol checks. She said she had met patients she had never seen before who were now elderly but so healthy that they had not needed to visit! When they were tested they all had āhigh cholesterolā!!!
from all the comments, I canāt make up my mind if Iām doing right taking statins, so many for and so many against. Who knows.
Iāve no idea Pixie. All I can tell you is that my cholesterol has always been below 5 since my GPs started testing for it. The ONLY reason I started taking statins was to stop my GP from badgering me into taking the bloody things in the first place.
If nothing else, LQ, they do work to keep strokes and heart problems at bay.
Well after ending up on the kitchen floor and not realising how at the time , Iām on statins and blood thinners, Iāll keep taking them , to never have or greatly reduce a chance of that happening again.
