Statins and exacerbation of dizziness/ fuzziness

[Lufer]

Has anyone experienced exacerbation of their dizziness if/when they started taking Statins for high cholesterol? I have recently been diagnosed with PA and with hindsight think that the period of dizziness and falling I had when I started Statins last year may have had something to do with my undiagnosed PA. I stopped the Statins and my dizziness also stopped.

[Marymary7]

I have read that Statins are bad. The Great Cholesterol Con by Dr. Malcolm Kendrick is informative. 😀

[Lufer]

Tried that with similar problem and broke my wrist following a nasty fall so am reluctant to try any more.

[Marymary7]

My friends husband took them because of family heart health history when he himself was actually very well. The Statins caused his muscles to melt away he is severely disabled now. He was a strapping healthy guy. It's called Rhabdomyolysis. He stopped the Statins years ago but the extreme muscle wasting has continued. Even the muscles holding the scapula in his back have gone so they stick out like wings. He uses a wheelchair sometimes as his muscles in his legs won't hold him.

Very very sad.

[BirdlessBox]

Statins have a lot of negative effects including brain and muscle decline. They strip the fat out of your body. The myelin on your nerves and your brain is made of fat. B12 deficiency causes degradation of the myelin. So I think it's highly possible the 2 are connected. Instability and falls are on many of the lists of B12 deficiency symptoms as one of the signs of neurological damage to the proprioceptors that are supposed to keep you stable. I'm not sure that more recent science supports the hardline that has been taken on Cholesterol for all these years - best do some more research.

[Marymary7 in reply to BirdlessBox]

Yes its too much sugar or white flour type goods that cause inflammation and inflammation that causes all the problems not fat or cholesterol, that hypothesis was made up by The author of the study. They think statins actually help because they take away some of the inflammation. Although the side effects can be brutal. A whole different thing...

B12 neurological problems, ones such as a worsening causing Subacute Combined Degeneration of Spinal Cord resemble MS and author Sally Patchaloc surmised they are the same problem.