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Should I stop taking Simvastatin if I am doing diet and exercise daily?

My cholesterol is 160 with the med. It was 220 before I started Diet/exercise/medication.

I would be worried if my cholesterol were below 300.
I would never ever take any statin to lower cholesterol even if I did believe that high cholesterol was bad.
Statins are dangerous. They have many nasty side effects, including memory loss which the drug companies won’t tell you.
Google "statin memory loss" and you will get 100000+ hits. Looks like a possible side effect to me.

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2 Responses to “Should I stop taking Simvastatin if I am doing diet and exercise daily?”

  1. Harley Drive Says:
    July 29th, 2010 at 6:04 am

    statins are a confidence trick they work by damaging the liver and can have lethal side effects , unless you have a stent fitted in a coronary artery there is no evidence of benefit from the use of statins
    References :

  2. kelby7670 Says:
    July 29th, 2010 at 6:27 am

    I would be worried if my cholesterol were below 300.
    I would never ever take any statin to lower cholesterol even if I did believe that high cholesterol was bad.
    Statins are dangerous. They have many nasty side effects, including memory loss which the drug companies won’t tell you.
    Google "statin memory loss" and you will get 100000+ hits. Looks like a possible side effect to me.
    References :
    13 years in clinical trials

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