Warm and hot uncomfortable body with Statins or?

[1975A]

I am on daily crestor 10mg,1 ezetrol, 2 berlinda tablets and 1 esprin for year and half after having 4 stents and recently from last 3 months I am feeling that my body stays warm and I feel hot not sweaty but uncomfortable hot. anyone have similar experience. any tips or help?

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Dear 1975A

Its one of those ‘could be , could be not’ answers sorry to say because as you know medication effects us all different, but hot/warm flushes are noted as a side effect on some statins, but still it could be down to something else.

When the body fluctuates heat wise, its for a reason and personally if this continues you need to have it checked out, your meds may {as they can} be affecting your hormone levels, but please remember I am not medically trained.

Some of the drugs issued in the uk can affect the hormone levels but many tend to not recognise it and its outcome.

Simple blood test can tell this, but sometimes its the case of there are more important things to get through first.

Mine was picked up quickly and re-balanced just as quick.

I realise that you are not in this country and sorry I have not a clue how your medical system works, but we are all human beings, so we have a lot of similar problems regardless of where in the world we have them.

Take care

[pasigal]

Hard to say, but at times I have had a very uncomfortable warm "flushing" sensation while on the usual cocktail of heard med (statins/bisoprolol/ticagrelor/aspirin). It is less often now that it's been a full year since my last HA, but nothing like being in an underground station and getting hot and dizzy. Now that will set off some anxiety...

[MichaelJH Heart Star]

I would suggest you have a medication review and discuss these symptoms with your GP. Whilst hot flushes are rare with statins after this length of time it seems unlikely. Have you had a LFT (liver function test) since starting statins? As minimum this should be done six weeks after commencing or changing ststin/dosage and annually thereafter. Quite a few are being missed in the current climate.

This doesn't apply to you but I include it for other readers of this thread. There was some research done a few years ago about hot flushes and statins. It appears that in menopausal women frequency and severity of hot flushes increases with increasing cholesterol levels. As a result statins improve things by reducing cholesterol levels, particularly LDL levels.

[Hullensian]

Sorry, I have no experience with this drug.

[Davey77]

Sometimes the time of day you take a medicine can make it more uncomfortable.I was getting bad night-sweats and the doctor told me to change to taking Lisinopril in the morning instead of at night. A couple of times I worried that it might trigger Covid temperature sensors, but the effects were much easier to deal with during the day.

Ask your doctor if that's a possibility.

[1975A]

I wanted to Thank you all and it’s just a wonderful feeling to be part of this community, just on an experience I have never done the liver test that was new for me. Even doctors never mentioned.

However I did my whole blood test( CBC, Lipid profile and urine test anylasis with vitamin d etc) every other 3 months with full report which looks okay. Am I covered for liver anylasis on above reports or I have to take extra test.

Total Cholesterol levels were around 3. Like triglycerides 1.4 and HDL 0.9.