Yup,  I'm on statins for life regardless of cholesterol.   

My mom,  who passed a few years ago at 89,  had pretty severe dementia that was progressively getting worse,  she had been on statins for years.  After doing internet research (bad idea) and talking it over with her and my family,  we decided to pull her off of it.   Nothing changed and we forgot about it.   About a year and a half later  (dementia getting worse and worse) she had a stroke that killed her after about a week.   She had lost all will to live and was very unhappy with dementia before the stroke.   

Anyway,  right after the stroke,  a relatively young, Eastern European female doctor came in and introduced herself.  She told me that pulling her off the statin had caused her stroke, then walked out.   I was kind of in shock over the whole thing, it took me a few minutes, but I went looking for her.

Luckily I ran into her boss,  who turned out to have great advice about the whole situation,   he asked me what was up.    I told him I was looking for the other doctor,  I wanted to talk to her.   He rolled his eyes,  pulled me into a room,  and asked me what she said.   I told him,  then I said,  "We've been dealing with this for at least five years, she's seen at least ten doctors about it,  and not one of them could tell us whether this is vascular dementia,  reaction to medicine, Alzheimer's,  they only knew she had dementia. Other topics with doctors, same thing,  no definitive answers.   Yet this lady has the knowledge and the balls to tell me that pulling her off that pill caused this stroke?   Not buying it."    He apologized for her,  then probably gave me the best advice of the whole ordeal,  which was not to lose hope,  but make sure that she doesn't get tortured with rehab and procedures.    Anyway she passed comfortably in her own bed about a week later.  The lady doctor was probably right,  but she definitely needed to work on her bedside manner,  I never saw her again.

So anyway,  I'm a believer in those pills for people like me,  with a cholesterol issue and family history.

To Joe's point,  both my mother and brother have had issues with statins.   I brought that up when my doc told me it was time,  they had issues with Crestor and Lipitor.   So I got Pravachol and have had no issues,  been on it for about 20 years. 

As far as the getting winded easily, I wouldn't necessarily blame the beta blocker.  That's another good drug, especially for people who have had heart attacks.   I'm on one of those too.   

You just had a heart attack, even though there was no damage it's going to take time to heal up, that's probably why you are getting winded.   The beta blocker might fatigue you a little, but, at least in my case,  has never caused me to get winded.   It does lower your max heart rate,  but you would only notice that when running or exercising to the max.

 I do long distance bike rides and train most of the year.  The beta blocker slows me a little,  but not much.   I've been doing 100 mile rides for 10 years now,  hoping to get 3 or 4 in next summer.

I would give it time,  be patient and heal,  you'll come back stronger than ever.

I read a recent study that suggested statins themselves might be causing dementia. My mother is on them and her dementia is getting worse and worse. She too says she just wants to die, she keeps saying she wants to go to sleep one night and “wake up dead” the next morning. Shame on that doctor for saying what she did. It’s only a theory that taking her off the statin caused her death. At that point why make the family feel bad?

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/01/hey_gop_this_is_what_pushback_looks_like.html

Republican voters have lamented for years over the lack of pushback from their elected leaders. Democrats and the media hurl baseless and libelous accusations at Republicans, only to be met with a weak defense at best, or silence at worst.

Republicans want to push granny off a cliff, make senior citizens eat dog food, starve children and put them in cages. Republicans are racist, sexist, bigoted, homophobic, Islamophobic, mean-spirited, and ignorant.

Watch any cable news show and get a healthy dose of this garbage. If you don’t like the news, watch late night “comedy,” entertainment award shows, or virtually any television series to hear much the same. It’s one-way propaganda with no pushback.

As one of the all-time great propagandists Joseph Goebbels summed it up, “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”

In the last few years, however, the tide is turning. Pushback is being demonstrated by our pugilist-in-chief, President Donald Trump. And others are following his lead.

 

I've spent a few years of my life living and working in Asia and dealing with the Chinese.

The Chinese have an odd view on business, and you can't apply western thinking to how they operate.  In their culture, lying is fully acceptable in business if it furthers the business.  It's just a business tactic.  Also, contracts are for their side only to enforce what they want, the other side must submit to them.  And they view contracts as documents in which they can change their terms (not yours) as they desire.

 Another thing the Chinese live by is "saving face".  In the end, if you bloody them up too bad and you walk away the clear winner, they have lost face and are disgraced.  The way to conclude a business deal is to hammer out behind doors, then allow them to come out and have the appearance that they either won, or they graciously allowed the other side to get something out of the deal.

 They also will steal your technology.  Again, that's all in a days business to them.  If you are dealing with highly sensitive technology, best go in with a way to protect it before negotiations.  Once they have it, it's theirs.  And guess what round eyes, you ain't gonna win in a Chinese court.

 China has been slamming it to the USA for years, that's what has helped fuel their economy.  Unfortunately we have just rolled over and let them because we had politicians that were cashing in on the deal to our demise.  They have never had to deal with someone like Trump, who understands business and more importantly understands what makes economies work.

 I can guarantee you whoever the dims run in 2020, the Chinese will go all out to help them get elected.  Right now China is playing a waiting game hoping Trump gets replaced in 2020 and they can return to "business as usual".

I venture to say - when the little wiggler embedded in the ovum.

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I'm trying to teach myself Chinese.

Makes me wretch. That is all.

There's plenty of blame to go around on this. I agree that Congress could, and should, be doing more. They should be passing bills and sending them to the President for his signature. But on the other hand, the President hasn't gone out and campaigned on the healthcare repeal. It's polling so low for a few reasons:

• Most of what they've discussed and/or passed so far sucks
• The President isn't out there getting the message out about why Obamacare is horrible and people should vote for the new bill

I think Obamacare is a terrible bill but at least President Obama went out there and sold it. He held rallies to sell his plan and people bought into it. Trump isn't doing that. Both branches are responsible for this, not just Congress.

 BULLSHIT!

 The ACA was wrote in secrecy and passed in the middle of the night using reconciliation.  And there was zero republican support or consultation on the bill.

 There was no "selling", just a bunch of lies ("If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor", and "The ACA will lower premiums by $2500 a year")

 Even Jonathan Gruber was caught on tape saying "The stupidity of the American voter" made it important for him and Democrats to hide Obamacare’s true costs from the public. “That was really, really critical for the thing to pass,” said Gruber. “But I’d rather have this law than not.”

https://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2014/11/10/aca-architect-the-stupidity-of-the-american-voter-led-us-to-hide-obamacares-tax-hikes-and-subsidies-from-the-public/#524f14397c05

 So much for Obama "selling" the idea of the ACA. 

I played Doom a couple times....

Well, this puts you on equal footing with all the Dem candidates from 2016, and almost all the Rep candidates in 2016 prez election. Because, sure as hell, Clinton learned nothing as sec of state.