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[Indiana Robinson]

On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 8:04 AM, Dan Glass <dglass at numail.org> wrote:

> Just remember to read the list of side effects before taking a
> cholesterol lowering drug, some of them are brutal.
>
>

This whole side effect thing with the Lipitor has been a new (and
unpleasant) experience for me. I am almost never affected by drug side
effects of any kind.
I do a "LOT" of research on a lot of stuff especially medical. On medical
stuff I generally lean toward the larger teaching hospital sites like Johns
Hopkins or Mayo Clinic etc.
I generally add a grain of salt when it is some doctor writing a blog. I
don't ignore it, I just look closely for indications of a possible nut-job.
Most are not but a few slip in.
I add more salt when it is a writer without any medical credentials at all.
Now when it is something I found from a search that is just folks on a
forum or in the comments on a blog site I usually discount those by about
75% right off of the top. You know some of those people... She knows for
sure that her car quit running because her brother-in-law's mother took one
of those pills.
:-)
My cardiologist is turning out to be more common sense than I expected. I
believe he just has some staff that is a little prone to go overboard.
Apparently it was a staff member that jacked my dosage from 20 mg to 80 mg
(the maximum) in one jump. The cardiologist seemed surprised and annoyed
when we talked about it. He told me to stop taking it at all for two weeks
then start back at the 20 mg (which had not been a problem). He would like
for me to then try bumping it up to 40 mg later but said if I had any
problem at all, drop it back to 20 mg.
I've been back on the 20 mg for a couple of weeks now without any problems.
I saw him yesterday and we talked a good bit. I was unable however to
convince him that taking Lipitor was causing low air temperatures and snow
to fall from the sky...
:-)



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Francis Robinson
aka "farmer"
Central Indiana USA
robinson46176 at gmail.com