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11-15-2009, 06:38 PM
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I am a: Type 1.5 | | Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Maryland
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| | | Crestor vs. Lipitor
My Endo just put me on Statins. She wants me to take Crestor vs. Lipotor b/c Lipitor has a tendency to pull HDL down while Crestor does not.
Has anyone else ever heard of this happening? I asked a Nurse Practitioner and she wasn't aware that Lipitor lowered HDL to a point. |
11-15-2009, 07:02 PM
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I am a: Pre-Diabetic | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Greater San Diego area
Posts: 2,250
| | | You might take a look at Jenny Ruhl's blog, "Diabetes Update," for November 10, 2008. She describes a test in which Crestor was linked to an increased incidence of diabetes. (i found it by Googling "crestor raises blood sugar"; it was the fourth link down.)
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Dx prediabetic 02/08 (FBG 127 and 123)
A1c 02/08: 6.5; A1c 05/08: 6.0
A1c 11/08: 5.5; A1c 03/09: 5.3
A1c 09/09: 5.4
No meds
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11-16-2009, 08:57 AM
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I am a: Type 1.5 | | Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Maryland
Posts: 300
| | | Thanks ShottleBop for the heads up on the link. I have been a bit MIA lately so I haven't been privy to all the postings! I will check it out! |
11-16-2009, 10:25 AM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Michigan
Posts: 657
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Originally Posted by Ategeler  My Endo just put me on Statins. She wants me to take Crestor vs. Lipotor b/c Lipitor has a tendency to pull HDL down while Crestor does not.
Has anyone else ever heard of this happening? I asked a Nurse Practitioner and she wasn't aware that Lipitor lowered HDL to a point. | I am on crestor and it works great for me.
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A1C Dec 2009 5.7
Lantus 15 units split dose
Novolog as needed
Metformin 2000mg  |
11-16-2009, 10:39 AM
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I am a: Type 1.5 | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: KCMO
Posts: 7,265
| | | Personally I vote for Simvastatin ... it's so old, it's GENERIC!
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Linda
Nov 30 A1c (MD office) 5.6% 
Jul ... C-pep 1.3, GAD-65 > 30
metformin 1000 mg BID
Simvastatin 80 mg
Ramipril 5 mg
T4 125 mcg
baby aspirin
Vitamin D3, 2000 IU (blood values normal, advised to continue this dose by endo)
CoQ10 100 mg
Eating 70 - 90 g carb per day
Interval training on recumbent cycle
BMI is down to ca. 25.2 I am my OWN biology experiment |
11-16-2009, 03:03 PM
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I am a: Type 1.5 | | Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Maryland
Posts: 300
| | | Generic for which one? |
11-16-2009, 03:05 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Okc OK
Posts: 264
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Originally Posted by Ategeler Generic for which one? | zocor is the name brand the generic is simvastain |
11-24-2009, 02:18 PM
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I am a: Pre-Diabetic | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Greater San Diego area
Posts: 2,250
| | Episode No. 308 of the Livin' La Vida Low Carb Show (google "living la vida low carb podcast" and click on "The Livin' La Vida Low-Carb Show With Jimmy Moore", which should be the first link): an interview with Dr. Duane Graveline, master of the spacedoc.net website, regarding the damage that statins can do: Quote:
Today, Jimmy shares his conversation with a bonafide hero of space science who is now devoted to fixing one important aspect of medical science. The man is Dr. Duane Graveline, and the issue he is so passionately concerned with is the little-acknowleged but major problem of Statin over-prescription.
Empirical experience, followed by almost a decade of researching the published data has led Dr. Graveline to the conclusion that statins are effective almost by accident, and that – at the doses doctors currently recommend – cause major, permanent damage to human mitochondrial DNA, resulting in loss of strength, join pain, memory loss and more.
Topics discussed include: the falseness of the cholesterol theory of Atherosclerosis, the real reason small amounts of statins can help Atherosclerosis, why CoQ-10 is a MUST for anyone taking a statin, Why you cannot buy a pill with a statin and CoQ-10 together, the 7 “critical sugars” (including glyco-protein), the importance of Vitamin E from tocotrienol, and the importance of vitamin D and Omega 6 supplementation.
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Dx prediabetic 02/08 (FBG 127 and 123)
A1c 02/08: 6.5; A1c 05/08: 6.0
A1c 11/08: 5.5; A1c 03/09: 5.3
A1c 09/09: 5.4
No meds
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