[Magdalen] Today, PCP appt.

[Lynn Ronkainen]

I'm not sure statins are considered blood thinners but instead cholesterol lowering. OTOH there are some really bad new blood thinners out there that ARE killers and are still being sold and heavily advertised, some of which already have class action law suits ongoing involving living or dead former users. 
Lynn

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On Jul 16, 2016, at 2:01 AM, Allan Carr <allanc25 at gmail.com> wrote:

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:
> 
> Copy,  print and take to your doctor,  Allan.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> 
> 
> With disabling neuropathy this is good advice to cover all the bases.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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.  
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 
> David Strang.
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>