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I am a 45 year old male who has enjoyed excellent health his whole life. After a recent...

Posted by SLCraft

I am a 45 year old male who has enjoyed excellent health his whole life. After a recent full physical and blood work up it was found I had high cholesterol which was no surprise given my age, family history (pretty much everyone is on a statin in my family) and diet. I am a Southern Boy and I like my french fries and bacon. This all said, not a single person on either side of my family has ever had a heart attack and my mother is 89 and in excellent health. My oldest brother is 60 and he has lived a life that would have killed most people....and still no heart attack ( add in smoking and alcoholism on his end). So, family wise, we don't get sick and we don't die from heart related stuff.
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This said, I got on here to see if Crestor was making anyone else gain weight. I fell like someone has shoved an air hose up my ass and inflated me. I have never had any weight issues and as SOON as I started on the Crestor (5mg) I felt a change in my body. I began having muscle aches, mild headaches, my energy level dropped and I have put on 15 lbs in two months with even more activity. My diet has not changed. I am CONVINCED that all the recent changes are from the Crestor, which is the ONLY drug I have EVER taken and it all started recently. I have been poking around on the internet and there seems to be a lot of folks out there that agree with my "arm chair" diagnosis. I am going on my third month next week and I am going to A) See if it worked at all

See how well it actually worked C) and weighing these factors in see if there is another drug that doesn't make me feel 10 years older.

I would rather die when I am supposed to from a heart attack than languish in a retirement community. These statins are really keeping those who would have died 10-20 even 30 years younger alive. Hence our rapidly increasing elderly population over 70. It is scary and super expensive to everyone as most are on Medicare and would have died years ago without them. Many are outliving their own sanity because of them. I see it all the time. Statins might work, but they have huge ramifications to the health of many from bad side effects and for keeping those alive who may should have died naturally.View Thread

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