Re Atrovastatin result

[muddlethru]

I posted a few weeks ago re the above statin. After a three week wait I saw my doctor. She told me to stop them for a month to see how I feel. Well after been off them for just six days I feel like a different person, back to the old me again. I'm not so tired, no tummy pains/cramps and best of all I'm much more clear headed with a big improvement of memory. I won't be going back on them again. I used to be on Simvastatin for years without any ill effects . It was another doctor who changed me from one to the other. I also had my yearly check up for diabetes last week and passed with flying colours so chuffed about that. I've been diet controlled for 15 years now. I'm feeling pleased with myself this week.

 

[Drummer]

I was taking Atorvastatin for only a few weeks up to Christmas 2016 I did all the Christmas shopping twice, and had to walk up and down the car park looking for the car which was already full of food.
The change in my wellbeing frightened my husband so much that he stopped taking statins and he is a different person - not the grumpy old man constantly repeating the same few phrases such as you know what I mean - over and over.
The tablets remain highly recommended as adverse reactions are not recorded on our notes.

 

[trophywench]

I sincerely trust that all of you, 'Yellow Carded' the drug.

 

[Drummer]

Don't understand the reference. I have told three nurses and a doctor about the problem, but they never mentioned doing anything like that.

 

[grovesy]

Don't understand the reference. I have told three nurses and a doctor about the problem, but they never mentioned doing anything like that.

Yellow card is a method of reporting adverse drug to the medicine agency.

 

[trophywench]

Here it is

https://yellowcard.mhra.gov.uk/

 

[muddlethru]

Drummer I know where you are coming from. It's like having a new life . Everyone says I'm looking better not so strained and much more my cheery wee self. I wish I'd stopped them sooner,
especially as I went to Glencoe with my husband daughter and son-law. I felt too worn out to go for a walk never mind going up the foothills, so I spent most of the time doggy sitting. I was happy though as I was back in my ain country again.

 

[Drummer]

When we went to my mother in law's funeral I put my poles in the car and my husband took them out again - along with the umbrellas - so when we got to the place I had to stay in the car as I could not stand unsupported for more than a couple of minutes, and it being in the driving rain and I was having constant chest infections I thought it would be safest - but I was so dismayed about it.