Weaning off statins

[Stumper]

Originally Posted by ARIZONA73

Stumper, there actually is some truth to this. I remember reading about this a few years ago. I believe it involved Lipitor and its adverse effects on blood sugar levels in some diabetics. No, this is not nonsense. It was in the news.

Arizona,


It may have been in the news but it is not documented nor in any clinical studies that I know of.
For that matter they are now finding out that ALL diabetics OUGHT to be on Statins. I have never noticed any rise in mine, nor anyone, not one, person I know that takes them. Now BP meds...THAT could be another story. Some nonselective Beta blockers and diuretics can raise glucose a little.

[JJ]

Originally Posted by Stumper

Arizona,


It may have been in the news but it is not documented nor in any clinical studies that I know of.
For that matter they are now finding out that ALL diabetics OUGHT to be on Statins. I have never noticed any rise in mine, nor anyone, not one, person I know that takes them. Now BP meds...THAT could be another story. Some nonselective Beta blockers and diuretics can raise glucose a little.

That is another thing drs. don't seem to agree on, these BB's raising glucose. My new dr. thinks they are the best things on the market, yet when they had me on them I noticed a rise in glucose and have noticed one in hubby since they upped his. I have looked it up and came across many, many sites that list it as a glucose riser. As soon as hubby is squared away with this recent bout of his, we are having a nice long chat with the dr. about them, as even the dr. in the hospital said YES, they can, but for now, he has too much going on to mess with any med. changes. God, we have to do all the research and they get the big bucks, hmmmm, don't make sense to me.

[NHone]

Originally Posted by ARIZONA73

Stumper, there actually is some truth to this. I remember reading about this a few years ago. I believe it involved Lipitor and its adverse effects on blood sugar levels in some diabetics. No, this is not nonsense. It was in the news.

It was Lipitor. The people at the statin study told me where to find it. I will look though my files, and give directions of how to find it. That is why the people at the statin study find it disturbing that all of a sudden they think that all diabetics should be on cholesterol lowering medicines. Also recent reports have shown that seriously ill diabetics have had many more strokes while taking statins.

[NHone]

The place to look for the glycemic control...look up "marc sabatine high dose atorvastatin associated with worsening glycemic control"....also something else of interest..."brain researchers discover bright side of cholesterol molecule'

[Stumper]

BTW..Hubby never had diabetes till he started taking Lipitor. Before any statins, the only problem he had was borderline high BP.

JJ,

Sooner or later if we live long enough I am reasonably confident one of these will probably get us. Diabetes, HBP, heart disease or worse yet, cancer. Hopefully it's not the latter.
I have seen and heard of many things blamed upon pills or some other such nonsense and the only thing that is never or hardly ever blamed is age or the persons genetic predisposition to some such disease.
I knew a man once who was completewly bald and blamed a med he took in his past somewhere. But...was his grandpa bald? Or his uncles? Or his Dad? These things are never brought up and yet some insist that a pill is always to blame, but never with any proof because it is not provable.

Chances are your husband was Predisposed genetically to be diabetic with or without the Lipitor. It was written in his genetic code.
I have read a few cases on this forum where many would have blamed their diabetes or HBP on Lipitor IF they had tried the lipitor first !