Is there any safe drug? - High Cholesterol Message Board

enie · 02-28-2006, 10:07 PM

finres,
Here's the non-tech. version:
I have a really messed up heart they can't fix, Marfan joints, and chronic inner ear problems. I have to use my wheelchair when I do anything more than taking a short walk around a room. It’s a vicious circle; I can’t exercise because of the heart and my weakened muscles exaggerate the Marfan and increases my imbalance problem.
enie

NHone · 02-28-2006, 11:48 PM

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Originally Posted by enie

finres,
Here's the non-tech. version:
I have a really messed up heart they can't fix, Marfan joints, and chronic inner ear problems. I have to use my wheelchair when I do anything more than taking a short walk around a room. It’s a vicious circle; I can’t exercise because of the heart and my weakened muscles exaggerate the Marfan and increases my imbalance problem.
enie

wow, hate to hear that. I really do think the Coq10 can do you some good. Have they ever done an intracellular test for magnesium on you?

enie · 03-01-2006, 10:57 AM

finres,
I can ask my Doc. about CoQ10 and magnesium next week.
What is an intracellular test?

Thanks for input..
enie

Spin444 · 03-01-2006, 01:54 PM

Enie, do you know that Zetia can cause arthralgia, myalgia, back pain, myopathy and rhabdomyolysis? Have you considered that your inability to walk might have something to do with the drug? Statins aren't the only cholesterol lowering drugs that can cause a lot of pain for users, sometimes putting them in wheel chairs, or, worse yet, causing kidney failure due to severe myopathy.

NHone · 03-01-2006, 02:16 PM

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Originally Posted by enie

finres,
I can ask my Doc. about CoQ10 and magnesium next week.
What is an intracellular test?

Thanks for input..
enie

Intracellular measures the magnesium within the cell. Since magnesium is found mainly within the cells it must be done here. The blood will maintain its magnesium level at all costs, which includes robbing the magnesium for within the cells. This is why serum magnesium test are really not good. The serum can have the right amount of magnesium, while the cells are starving. You can verify this by looking up Dr. Mildred Seelig. she is the world's leading magnesium specialist. (from Emory university in atlanta). SHe also has many books, including the Magnesium Factor. Most regular doctors don't understand magnesium or CoQ10, so I wouldn't be surprised if you doctors just laughs and see you can read anything on the internet. I come back for them is "you should do more reading".. Good luck,, By the way, Coq10 is not really considered a supplement , since the body makes it own supply of it. However it can be depleted by medications, and age.