Statins and APS what are your thoughts....?

[loppylou68]

Should people diagnosed with APS take Statins as part of the treatment ? There are so many views out there what are your thoughts ?

blackwellpublishing.com/acr...

medscape.com/viewarticle/71...

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/221...

[MaryF Administrator]

Hi, all I can say is there seems among people in general to be a for and against type thing going on, If I were you I would be guided by your most trusted medical expert, providing they are fully up to date with Hughes Syndrome/APS and the possible addition of these particular drugs to what you are already using. I will not be using them personally due to my extreme allergy to drugs due to my particular mix of diseases. Thanks for the articles, however I could only access the last one. MaryF

[loppylou68 in reply to MaryF]

Yes I think I will wait till I see my specialist next week thank you for your response Mary ....

Not sure what happened with the links they will probably come up if you Google 'Statins and APS ' i find they are all very medically based which makes it hard for lay people and patients to understand hence my question in the first instance and at my confusion with do I or don't I?

[daisyd]

I do prescribed by local hospital, high cholesterol but St was pleased I was on them of course everyone is different.

[Lure2]

I do not have high cholesterole and I am not at all too heavy in weight but my APS-Specialist has given me Simvastatin 10 mg Daily.

I have all the antibodies (incl Lupus Anticoagulant) and in high titres. I have Pulmonell hypertension and leaking heartvalves but i feel fine as long as I am on a high INR of warfarin. I selftest. I am primary APS (no other autoimmun illnesses as fas as we know now).

As Mary says if you have an APS-Specialist who knows you and who you trust also. Do as he/she says.

Kerstin in Stockholm

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After my TIA 6 years ago, I was prescribed both Warfarin and atorvastatins.

[molly1969]

After first stroke was on slimvastatin. Second stroke now atorvostatin x

[jetjetjet]

WE ALL READY HAVE COMPROMISED BLOOD AS IT IS . !!-- So like Mary i have massive amounts of problems , BUT --fat in the blood is huge with me so i take Pravastatin Sodium { Pravachol } 40 mg once a day . --This is the only one i can take because of my Niacin 1500 ml a day .---- and it has so far done fantastic with my hdl /ldl , my hdl has been super and ldl pretty good . Dc's are pleased I am tested twice a year if not sooner with all the other panels they do . and with 20 active Dc's in their special fields, i am well tested. to say the least .

[HypothyroidNomore]

I took only 5mg rosuvastatin and had sky rocketing blood pressure so I stopped it. The bp went down. It left a scar on my kidneys. I did an organic milk thistle detox . Cholestrol came down . Stopped dairy sugar wheat white potatoe. Inflammation went down . Started taking coconut piece in the morning with tiny piece of red onion. BP came down. Weight going down. Winter will be hard. .. curcumin is good. .. trying horsetail juice and hawthorn juice for cholesterol and heart health. Supportive health. Everyone is different.