Sadly, an all too common story.

http://www.breggin.org
Books by Peter R. Breggin: Your drug may be your problem, The Antidepressant Fact Book, Toxic Psyciatry ?

Powerful Medicines – The benefits, risks and costs of prescription drugs (Jerry Avorn)

About fluoroquenelones – a certain group of antibiotics such as Levaquin, Cipro etc.
There are people in the U.S. which claim they have been “floxed”. They also call themselves “floxies”. They have taken an antibiotic of this kind and in the name of the substance there is often the words – flox or ox, i.e. ciprofloxacin, levofloxacin.
My English is not perfect but I hope that you understand what I mean.
The reason that I started to look at this type of medication was that a close friend received it.

When I read about the side effects of statins and those of this type of antibiotics – they seem to have many similarities.

Please read the patient testimonials on these sites. You`ll be surprised. I also think that Stephen Frieds book is very interesting.

http://www.fqresearch.org
http://www.fqvictims.org
Bitter Pills (Stephen Fried)

It`s very disturbing to read all these stories. I really feel for you.

My experience comes from seeing what happened to people close to me.

They all took statins.

I started to look for information on statins, and other medications in 2004 and it continues to this day although two of my relatives are dead.

I have nothing to do with the health or pharmaceutical industry.

I saw the suffering and it made me very angry.

I am an ordinary lady in her sixties who live in Sweden.

The situation is almost the same here as in the U.S.

There is very little discussion about risks/benefits with this kind of medicatications – or others.

I think it`s a good idea to turn to the Internet and books to get other views about the cholesterol issue.

Is it really true that it`s the cholesterol that is causing heart disease?

Are you sure?

Please visit:

http://www.thincs.org

http://www.ravnskov.nu

http://www.spacedoc.net

http://www.statinalert.org

Also search articles etc on “Stopped our statins” and on the names of the different authors below.

Also read:

The Cholesterol Myths (Uffe Ravnskov)

The Great Cholesterol Con (Antony Colpo)

Book with the same title (Malcolm Kendrick)

Overdosed America (John Abramson)

The Truth about the Drug Companies (Marcia Agnell)

Malignant Medical Myths (Joel M. Kauffman)

There are many more.

Please look on the Internet for more information about each book.

Itīs good to have some other information than the one given by doctors because most of them have been “educated” by the pharmaceutical companies themselves – and why should they talk about risks, side effects etc. They are interested in profits.

Finally – here are some side effects that I have seen:

pains in legs, hands, elbows, shoulders, knees, hips, cracking noise in ribs, muscle weakness, loss of hair, head ache, burning, tingling sensations in hands and feet, numbness, difficulties to swallow, loss of taste, ringing noise in ears, cramps, insomnia, irritation, depression, difficulty with short-term memory and then advancing into more serious problems.

These side effects – for 3 different people – all over 65 – did not come at once.

All of them had taken statins for years (Zocor)

It doesnīt matter which product – all statins have similar side effects.

Search for “Stopped our statins” on Google. Itīs a very informative site and under “print articles” there are som articles that you can take along to your doctor for discussion.

I particularly like the one from Weston Price Foundation
and explains the different statin studies and side effects. .

My relatives also had some other medications which makes it even easier for doctors (and patients) to say that it`s just old age.

I am happy for those who get problems right away because then there maybe a chance for the patient and the doctor to see that there is a connection.

You really have to look out for yourself and the people around you!

Good Luck.

http://www.spacedoc.net/cholesterol_scam.html

http://www.thincs.org/links.htm

Thanks. Both are great sites.

I’m french and I have made a blog about statin drugs effects

many links are in english

it’s amazing…

it’s a worldwide SCAM
phil

http://phill443.unblog.fr/

After, two months on the statin drug I began to have leg muscle pain. The short story is I am off the statin drug and I will be off the BP drug very shortly.

My point is for those of you who are over 65 years old, do not take any drugs to increase life. If you have a life style that has supported you to live beyond 65, Please do not take drugs. I have lived with a life style, Cigars and Beer, that has supported me for 71 years. Should I change it to live, according to the drug companies, for an extra one or two years, I think not!

Good luck to you all and tell the drug companies to go to Hell.

To read more about the practice of Random Batch Spiking (also known as Fairy Dusting) in supplements, see this excellent article by Jeff O’Connell that was in Men’s Health: http://health.msn.com/fitness/articlepage.aspx?cp-documentid=100172803&page=1