[Magdalen] Today, PCP appt.

[Allan Carr]

My hesitation is due to the aortic aneurism I had in December, 2012, and the mild stroke last September. I'm not sure if my going off a blood thinner earlier in the year had anything to do with that stroke and I worry going off simvastatin might induce another stroke.

Six of one, and a half dozen of the other. I'm not sure there's a good gamble, either way. I'll talk to the doctors as time progresses and see if any has a different opinion.



> On Jul 15, 2016, at 8:50 AM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
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> In a message dated 7/15/2016 11:27:21 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
> jay.weigel at gmail.com writes:
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> Copy,  print and take to your doctor,  Allan.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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> With disabling neuropathy this is good advice to cover all the bases.
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> However, 14 years have passed since this article, and if the statins  were
> an important neuropathic disabler, their use would have been long  since
> severely curtailed.
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> I suppose through the years I saw thousands of patients with elevated  
> lipids,
> and I got the distinct impression that if statins were  discontinued for 
> whatever reason, it was very difficult to reproduce their therapeutic 
> effect on the lipids with another scheme.  
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> So if there is any message here is that I would be very, very sure  that
> bothersome symptoms are due to the statins before they are  discontinued,
> and that is especially true for diabetics.
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> The statins have made their economic impact on the practice of
> dermatology.  I used to have the easy surgical removal of  xanthelasmas
> as one of my "bread and butter" procedures, but in the last 15 years  or
> so of practice, the occurrence of these dried up completely.   Patients
> no longer had hyperlipidemia because they were all taking statins,
> and they no longer had xanthelasmata.
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> David Strang.
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