Simvastatin damage

1. Chesterbird 1 July 2009 at 14:06PM
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   No-one told me about the serious inflammation and muscle pain that could be caused by Simvastatin - at the time I believed that this must just be a natural detrioration in existing stiffness, lousy circulation and osteo arthritis. After a few months on Simvastatin, I had the luck to see a single paragraph in the Daily Mail from a rheumatics specialist saying that he'd suddenly realised that the deterioration he'd been suffering was down to Simvastatin. (This amongst all the full-page paeons of praise for this wretched drug from 'doctors you can trust'.)

   Since then, I keep hearing of people's negative experiences of this particular brand of statin. One chap, put on Simvastatin, went back to his surgery and saw a different doctor - who immediately took him off Simvastatin and said that if he'd remained on it, in a couple of years he'd be permanently in a wheel chair.

   Why on earth 'trusted' medical correspondents in national newspapers keep promoting Simvastatin is beyond me. It is simply an extremely destructive drug and you're lucky if you get away with it.

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2. Jane1962 1 July 2009 at 15:48PM

   Hi Chesterbird,

   I'm really interested in peoples take on this drug as my husband has been taking it for sometime now and has been suffering with pains and aches in all different places on his body, alot are muscular and he also gets alot of pain in his feet, only last week he couldn't walk on his right foot for swelling. Could this be the tablets? What would you advise me doing - going to the drs for a different drug?

   I'm quite worried as he never beofre used to get these aches and pains and seems to spend alot of time at the drs - it's only by looking on this website that I have realised that many others seem to suffer similar gripes with the tablets and it would be nice if something could be done.

   Are you on them or have you managed to get them changed?

   Thanks for listening.

   Regards

   Jane

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3. Guest 11 August 2009 at 13:27PM

   I suffered for nothing, because I didn't have a cholesterol problem in the first place. I was to take them to 'make sure' that I didn't have a cholesterol problem.

   IT WAS A NIGHTMARE. 8 months of hell. I am off the Statin now because I threw them in the bin and I've never been back to my doctor since I did that.

   However my right leg has pronounced veins running down the front of my shin (which I never had before) and I still have lumpy breasts. I have a drawer full of bras I cannot wear, and shoes larger than I need because of the problems I had with my feet.

   I too believed I would end up in a wheelchair and was absolutely terrified. The lumps in my breasts had to be examined too, but on return to my doctors (yes I saw two of them) they never connected the two.

   I saw my doctors more time in 3 months than I had in 30 years. I could hardly walk then and only after I threw away the Statins have I felt better.

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