Having a personal experience with heart disease I start this blog to gather information about cholesterol and maintaning a healthy heart from the actual people trying all kind of therapies.
My personal story
In 2010 I experienced severe chest pain while jogging and two months later I was on the surgery table having a stent operation on two arteries.
It goes without saying that my doctors who I thank have prescribed me a couple of drugs to take for lifetime.
The first is an omega 3-6 supplement under the brand Omacor
The second is an aspirin under the brand Salospir (100mg/day)
And the third is a simvastatin under the brand Lepur (40mg/day)
Having always the mentality to avoid taking drugs the idea of lifetime medication comes a bit hard on me thus I have been reading regularly to discover alternative ways to maintain my heart healthy and stop or reduce the drugs and their side effects.
There are plenty of articles on potential side effects on statins in general and although I have no way to measure the side effects on me I confirm at least small detoriaration on the following:
muscle strength: my muscles have weakened, shrinked and in the beggining I even had minor muscle pain in my back and legs. I suppose by now my body is more used to the drugs and do not experience any more pain but I am definetely weaker.
memory loss: I used to forget also in the past but now it is almost impossible to remember most things and I am having also difficulty to stay focused.
skin irritation: finally I experience some itching on specific spots all year round and in winter extreme dryness and cracking on the skin of my thighs and butt.
Again I am only stating my experience having no way to isolate the extent to which all this is directly linked to statins and hope to find other people who can confirm they face similar side effects.
A first personal success
At some point having my regular blood tests results, my doctor suggested that we increase my dosage of statins to correct a small increase in my LDL.
I then was even more determined to try any other alternatives to succeed in lowering my cholesterol before taking more drugs.
And I managed to decrease my cholesterol almost 25% by the following combination of actions:
1) I started taking my simvastatin pill during the evening instead of night time, after reading an article on ideal times to take different drugs.
2) I almost stopped eating any animal products and increased to the maximum eating seasonal, local, Organic and Whole grains, fruits and legumes.
3) Finally I changed my everyday breakfast to a bowl of soup with oats, flaxseed and by choice black raisins, berries and wallnuts, a spoon of honey and water (no dairy milk for me)
That was it! In one month I repeated my blood tests and everything was corrected to the ideal numbers!
I now have set on my next goal which is finding more ways to help my heart and replace or even better stop taking my drugs.
I really hope to reach and find all of you in similar situation that have tried several things and want to share their experience!!!
My personal story
In 2010 I experienced severe chest pain while jogging and two months later I was on the surgery table having a stent operation on two arteries.
It goes without saying that my doctors who I thank have prescribed me a couple of drugs to take for lifetime.
The first is an omega 3-6 supplement under the brand Omacor
The second is an aspirin under the brand Salospir (100mg/day)
And the third is a simvastatin under the brand Lepur (40mg/day)
Having always the mentality to avoid taking drugs the idea of lifetime medication comes a bit hard on me thus I have been reading regularly to discover alternative ways to maintain my heart healthy and stop or reduce the drugs and their side effects.
There are plenty of articles on potential side effects on statins in general and although I have no way to measure the side effects on me I confirm at least small detoriaration on the following:
muscle strength: my muscles have weakened, shrinked and in the beggining I even had minor muscle pain in my back and legs. I suppose by now my body is more used to the drugs and do not experience any more pain but I am definetely weaker.
memory loss: I used to forget also in the past but now it is almost impossible to remember most things and I am having also difficulty to stay focused.
skin irritation: finally I experience some itching on specific spots all year round and in winter extreme dryness and cracking on the skin of my thighs and butt.
Again I am only stating my experience having no way to isolate the extent to which all this is directly linked to statins and hope to find other people who can confirm they face similar side effects.
A first personal success
At some point having my regular blood tests results, my doctor suggested that we increase my dosage of statins to correct a small increase in my LDL.
I then was even more determined to try any other alternatives to succeed in lowering my cholesterol before taking more drugs.
And I managed to decrease my cholesterol almost 25% by the following combination of actions:
1) I started taking my simvastatin pill during the evening instead of night time, after reading an article on ideal times to take different drugs.
2) I almost stopped eating any animal products and increased to the maximum eating seasonal, local, Organic and Whole grains, fruits and legumes.
3) Finally I changed my everyday breakfast to a bowl of soup with oats, flaxseed and by choice black raisins, berries and wallnuts, a spoon of honey and water (no dairy milk for me)
That was it! In one month I repeated my blood tests and everything was corrected to the ideal numbers!
I now have set on my next goal which is finding more ways to help my heart and replace or even better stop taking my drugs.
I really hope to reach and find all of you in similar situation that have tried several things and want to share their experience!!!
Nice work!! Keep on experimenting!!!!
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