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Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud
I never smoked in my life, there was zero history of heart disease in my family, yet one UCLA doctor pushed me to take statins for 2 full years, despite the liver enzyme levels and despite the muscle and joint pain that it caused.
6 years later, another doctor tried to push statins on me and just to humor him, I took them every other day for 1 month but the pain was so bad, I could barely get out of bed in the morning. I discontinued use and had pain for the following 6 months.
Before I started statins, I was walking 25 miles a week in the hills, biking 60 miles a week and lifting heavily at the gym. Three years later, I could barely walk around my house.
You may be different but my experience with doctors is that they do not listen to the patient and instead, just push the AMA guidelines, which pisses me off to no end. There is absolutely no reason why a physically fit, healthy 40 year old male should be forced to take a "Preventative" medicine.
My 12 year old is 5'3 and weighs 85 pounds and after a blood panel that was ordered last summer to check her vitamin levels, found the cholesterol level to be 20 points higher than normal.
For many people, genetic high cholesterol is just that: High cholesterol that doesn't lead to stroke or heart attacks but these doctors just push and push and push, so hell yeah, I'm saying NO.
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You are absolutely entitled to say no. you have complete autonomy over your health and your own medical decisions. No one should be forced to comply, or felt forced to comply with any medical recommendation.
As a healthcare provider, toeing the line between making recommendations and allowing for patient autonomy is important. However, you also cannot let bad outcomes skew your recommendations. for instance, you will run into people who have developed statin-induced myopathies, some get very sick from it. You cannot allow that experience to prevent you from appropriately recommending statins in the future. that being said, if a patient has not tolerated statins, and had significant side effects, it's hard to imagine a scenario where you would want to compel them to take it again in the future
The only reason I entered this thread was due to people saying that everyone on a statin should take CoQ10, or that no one should take a statin for preventative measures.