Reply #71: Your doctor needs to monitor your liver function..and any "muscle aches" [View All]

[KoKo]

will show up soon enough that one should be aware and report them to you doctor.

Sadly,not all doctors keep up with their patients and not all patients are aware that they need to go every 3 to 6 months for blood work.

So...lots of folks end up with serious problems. Still others have no alternative but the Statins and do very well on them.

Finding doctors who care and monitor...and being able to afford all the monitoring plus the cost of trying different solutions is prohibitive for many of us..given our locations or personal circumstances.

:shrug: I hope the "alternative meds" for this can work for many. But, if one has a family member that has no history in their family of any heart disease, who didn't eat at Mickey D's..ate lots of veggies, and exercised but still had to have a Quintuple Bypass...then it says it was a "rogue gene" in the family that just didn't show up until that one person had the problem. In that case the Statin Drug did the trick...but we all gotta do what we gotta do with our own individual situations.

It's nice to have a thread with so many alternatives, though.