Cholesterol problem and taking Crestor

[Ingergi]

To Barry1,

Your doctor is wrong. All the symptoms you are mentioning with weakness and muscle pain are side effects from Crestor. Statins are too dangerous to take because of all the side effects. I have high cholesterol too, but I refuse any medication for it. Change the way you eat and eat only good fats like coconut oil, butter, and virgin Olive oil. Avoid all other oils especially hydrogenated oils, vegetable oils, and canola oil. Stop eating prepared foods and fast foods of any kind due to the oils they use. Always read your labels. Having high cholesterol is not necessarily dangerous at all. Some people make more cholesterol than others and we need these fats for joints, skin etc.

Remember that your doctor is not always right and do your own research.

Side effects from Crestor:

Muscle and joint pain

Headache

Weakness

Abdominal pain and nausea

Elevated sugar levels

Memory loss

Confusion

Maud

[humanbean]

I think you probably intended this post to be a reply to another post, but you've actually created a whole new thread. You could copy it to where you intended it to go and then delete this thread after you were sure you had moved it correctly.

[Ingergi in reply to humanbean]

This is my first time replying and I don't kniw how to use this site yet. Sorry about that.

[humanbean in reply to Ingergi]

Which post were you responding to?

[Ingergi in reply to humanbean]

Cholestrol and Statins (confused and irritated)

[humanbean]

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[SlowDragon Administrator]

This reply is for Batty1

[greygoose]

Hi Ingergi, welcome to the forum.

I'd just like to say that fats and cholesterol are two different things, and do not convert into each other on being ingested.

Cholesterol is made in the liver, and the less you consume, the more the liver will make. Inversely, the more you eat, the less the liver will make. It's not about diet. It's more about being hypo. Low levels of T3 will cause higher levels of cholesterol in the blood because the body needs T3 to process the cholesterol correctly.

[Ossuryak in reply to greygoose]

Not sure on this one ,before RAI treatment and having Graves disease my cholesterol was high and I was very HYPER at this time , my doctor said that was always the case with HYPER.

[greygoose in reply to Ossuryak]

Well, it isn't always the case with hyper, I can assure you of that. Just because a doctor says something, doesn't make it so. Where thyroid is concerned, they get it wrong all the time. And, I didn't say low T3 was the only cause of high cholesterol, just the usual cause. If you know someone has low T3 you can almost always guarantee their cholesterol will be high.

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As greygoose said.

Hypothyroidism makes your whole body "Go slow" which causes all sorts of problems.

Among other things, cholesterol helps repair damaged blood vessels but low thyroid hormone means it builds up in the blood. It's a symptom not a cause.

I gave up statins in 2018 mainly because of advice on here and after reading Dr Malcolm Kendrick's book "The Great Cholesterol Con."

I dont believe all the "Experts" say but he backs it with solid scientific facts and reliable eesearch.

I dont think you would get any withdrawal symptoms as its not addictive or anything, but if you do decide to give up statins it might be best to do it in stages just in case. I took a couple of weeks without any problem