A neighbor of mine suffered irreversible muscle damage from Lipitor and now uses a walker all the time. He is not even sixty years old yet. I am on your side on this one. there are other ways to lower cholesterol - diet and exercise (even just walking). There are no substitutes for a healthy lifesyle.
I've been reading that cholestrol isn't actually the killer we've been told it is. Low levels of cholestrol are in fact associated with all sorts of bad things I'd rather not have.
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Date: 2011-05-17 08:14 am (UTC)Ailz just read me an extract from an article that says that taking statins increases your chances of getting breast cancer by 30%.