[PJfromCincy]

Your physician who knows all of your medical history and is the person you have chosen to manage your personal medical care has prescribed a statin for you because he/she feels that it would benefit your well-being. As a retired cardiology nurse, PLEASE listen to your own physician instead of a nonmedical person or an MD who writes magazine articles or has a podcast. If you are unsure about.taking a statin, talk to your doctor, not to some random people on the internet. I once had two patients who had rooms across the hall from each other in the hospital. Both were middle aged men who had each had their second heart attack within the first 6 months following their first heart attack. What did they have in common? BOTH had quit taking the medication prescribed by their cardiologists because they read somewhere that the meds could be harmful. I said to both: And now you have luckily survived your second heart attack, please listen to your own doctor this time!
LISTEN to your doctor and talk to THEM!!!