More Exercise or Just Take It Easy? - High Cholesterol Message Board

Imacarbuff · 02-25-2006, 07:48 PM

After having a really decent improvement the first week after being off statins, my improvement has slowed to a crawl. If I take it easy, I do pretty good with muscle aches with very, very little burning. But, I'm finding that I continue to be weaker than I should be. I went to an Auto Expo today which required quite a lot of walking. From the parking garage, and looking at about 400 new cars. I have done this for many years-no problems. This time, my legs just got tired and ached.
Also, sleeping at night-I'll wake up because sleeping on one side has now caused that side to ache, I turn over to the other side and I'm good for a few more hours. I guess the weight of my body (6' 2", 190 pounds) pressing on the muscles makes them ache? Sound logical?

I continue now to run a low temperature for several weeks maybe 3 ....temps of 95.5-97. are pretty much the norm for me now. Thyroid????

The good news I guess is that I have lost about 10 pounds in the past 2 months from my tighter diet......since my Dr. agreed I should be OFF of statins "at least until more bloodwork in April.

Anyone been down this road and know if it is better to try and exercise a little to try and work the muscles...or take it easy as much as possible??

At this point.....I wish I had never even heard of statins!

JJ · 02-25-2006, 08:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Imacarbuff

After having a really decent improvement the first week after being off statins, my improvement has slowed to a crawl. If I take it easy, I do pretty good with muscle aches with very, very little burning. But, I'm finding that I continue to be weaker than I should be. I went to an Auto Expo today which required quite a lot of walking. From the parking garage, and looking at about 400 new cars. I have done this for many years-no problems. This time, my legs just got tired and ached.
Also, sleeping at night-I'll wake up because sleeping on one side has now caused that side to ache, I turn over to the other side and I'm good for a few more hours. I guess the weight of my body (6' 2", 190 pounds) pressing on the muscles makes them ache? Sound logical?

I continue now to run a low temperature for several weeks maybe 3 ....temps of 95.5-97. are pretty much the norm for me now. Thyroid????

The good news I guess is that I have lost about 10 pounds in the past 2 months from my tighter diet......since my Dr. agreed I should be OFF of statins "at least until more bloodwork in April.

Anyone been down this road and know if it is better to try and exercise a little to try and work the muscles...or take it easy as much as possible??

At this point.....I wish I had never even heard of statins!

After I stoped I felt realy fine after about 3 weeks, but still had that achey feeling in the legs. I just did as much as I could without hurting, and although it took a lil longer to heal, some folks just do take longer. I wouldn't push it, just take each day as it comes and perhaps do just a lil more each week till U feel comfortable.

As far as the low temps readings, I have always had quite low readings, usually about 97.5. If I have a temp. of 99, the dr. knows I have a fever. She told me she has quite a few folks like that and most all of them are not a Thyroid problem, as they thought that was my problem. Give yourself a few weeks to see how it goes, your body maybe just trying to adjust.

Good luck........

NHone · 02-25-2006, 10:02 PM

You might need to be careful with the exercise. As the statins can cause muscle damage they need to repair. Also as i'm sure you know, hard exercise also causes muscle damage so the muscle can repair and become stronger. As some reports have shown, the muscles wern't able to repair after the exercise because they were in the repair mode to fix the statin problem. They suggested you give the muscles a little time, and then slowly work up in the exercise when you can see that it is not causing pain the next day. This is different than regular working out and people experience soreness pain the next day. The body would just be building up. For the statin people you muscles might not be able to recover form the doulble hit of the statin damage , and then a workout. They should recover but you just can't overload the system.

janeslk · 02-26-2006, 07:59 AM

I second the comments by Finres. My husband would start feeling really good and then try to jog and we would be back to square one in terms of pain. Since he works at a job in which he is on his feet all day (restaurant owner) he was walking a lot during the day, but the exercise seemed to cause a relapse every time. After six months he started very gradually to work out on our treadmill--only a mile at low speed to begin. Now 8 months later he is up to 5 mph for 15 minutes and another 10 minutes at a lower speed. He also started lifting weights very gradually after six months. Jane

HubbleRules · 02-26-2006, 12:55 PM

IAmACarBuff,

Be patient, it may take a while for your muscle aches to go away and for your endurance to return.

WHen I had my problem with statins, it took over 8 months after I stopped them before I noticed any real improvement - and I was taking 150-200mg CoQ10 daily...

I was also stubborn and continued to exercise, though less frequently and at a lower intensity level...

After about a year off statins, I definitely began to feel better. Now, 2 years later, I have no pains and my exercise tolerance is where it was 3 years ago...

I think you can exercise a bit still - just don't push to do your normal routine until the aches start to diminish...

And take the CoQ10 - you probably should get the Q-GEL brand - it is absorbed faster....

HubbleRules