Great article! Other drugs with limited benefit are statins - about a 1% to 1.5% reduction in heart attacks and strokes. The flip side is harm. I am one of the 2 in 100,000 (claimed), "extremely rare", who got statin induced autoimmune necrotizing myopathy. The drug got my immune system to kill off skeletal muscle cells in my trunk and u…
Great article! Other drugs with limited benefit are statins - about a 1% to 1.5% reduction in heart attacks and strokes. The flip side is harm. I am one of the 2 in 100,000 (claimed), "extremely rare", who got statin induced autoimmune necrotizing myopathy. The drug got my immune system to kill off skeletal muscle cells in my trunk and upper legs - a lot of them, and they don't come back. I've been on immunosuppressive drugs for 7 years and counting. It has been a horrible outcome and yet I am thankful for not being in a wheelchair or dead like some victims. Besides this, questions linger about the loss of cholesterol which is vital to brain, hair growth, and other functions. Had I known the injury I would suffer, I would have accepted the 1.5% higher risk of stroke, and the C19 injury rate is looking even higher! Statins are as unimpeachable as vaccines.
Great article! Other drugs with limited benefit are statins - about a 1% to 1.5% reduction in heart attacks and strokes. The flip side is harm. I am one of the 2 in 100,000 (claimed), "extremely rare", who got statin induced autoimmune necrotizing myopathy. The drug got my immune system to kill off skeletal muscle cells in my trunk and upper legs - a lot of them, and they don't come back. I've been on immunosuppressive drugs for 7 years and counting. It has been a horrible outcome and yet I am thankful for not being in a wheelchair or dead like some victims. Besides this, questions linger about the loss of cholesterol which is vital to brain, hair growth, and other functions. Had I known the injury I would suffer, I would have accepted the 1.5% higher risk of stroke, and the C19 injury rate is looking even higher! Statins are as unimpeachable as vaccines.