My previous Primary Care “Physician” tried every statin possible including red yeast rice and every product tried caused me to exhibit the classic adverse outcomes, joint pain, muscle pain, weakness and excessive fatigue. I remember sitting in my car in the driveway after work one day about fifteen years ago weeping because it hurt so to even get out of the car. I stopped taking statins that day and began to feel better within a couple of days. I told all this to my PCP and also told him I had no desire to turn my liver to mush so he could drive my cholesterol to some mythical number the has never been proven clinically to be beneficial. I told him I was leaving his practice immediately and he could expect a request for my records from a new provider.
It was the beginning of my loss of faith in the medical profession.
My previous Primary Care “Physician” tried every statin possible including red yeast rice and every product tried caused me to exhibit the classic adverse outcomes, joint pain, muscle pain, weakness and excessive fatigue. I remember sitting in my car in the driveway after work one day about fifteen years ago weeping because it hurt so to even get out of the car. I stopped taking statins that day and began to feel better within a couple of days. I told all this to my PCP and also told him I had no desire to turn my liver to mush so he could drive my cholesterol to some mythical number the has never been proven clinically to be beneficial. I told him I was leaving his practice immediately and he could expect a request for my records from a new provider.
It was the beginning of my loss of faith in the medical profession.