I am a 68 year old retired engineer. When I was in my early 40s my primary care physician put me on a low dose of a statin drug because of my slightly above normal LDL cholesterol level. \u00a0I had no heart problems nor any family history of heart issues. I was a very active person; running, swimming, biking and going to the local gym often. Some years into this treatment, I experienced muscle aches and pains that affected different areas of my body. \u00a0I initially attributed these changes to middle age, but the pains persisted and worsened to the point of significantly impacting my quality of life. I also had ever increasing blood sugar levels despite my physical activity and normal weight.<\/p>\n
Today I struggle with activities of daily living and have to work to get in a short walk every day. \u00a0During all of this, my prescribing doctor denied that my pains were due\u00a0to statin exposure and I actually underwent two surgeries for lower back and leg pain (due to symptoms that were, in my view, exacerbated by statins)<\/p>\n
After doing my own research, I took myself off of the statin drug in 2014. By then it had been 15 years and the damage had been done. Needless to say, I have also changed doctors and have a confirmed diagnosis of statin-induced myopathy<\/strong> based on a muscle biopsy. \u00a0The high blood sugar developed into diabetes.<\/strong><\/p>\n I decided to put\u00a0together this website so I can share my \u00a0experience and the results of my findings\u00a0in the hope that it will help\u00a0others. \u00a0I quite often get asked about my condition and thought this would be a good vehicle to summarize the information that I have gleaned over the last several years.<\/p>\n Comments are welcome!<\/p>\n Phil Dellin PS: I am not a medical doctor and am not offering medical advice. Do your own research and consider this website a place to find materials that may be of use to you.<\/p>\n Here are links to the following pages of my website:<\/p>\n Each page has a link back to this Welcome page.<\/p>\n Note: There is a separate independent website, unaffiliated with me, used to gather\u00a0statins side effect accounts. \u00a0Make sure you type the trailing “s” of\u00a0statinvictims<\/a> for that website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I am a 68 year old retired engineer. When I was in my early 40s my primary care physician put me on a low dose of a statin drug because of my slightly above normal LDL cholesterol level. \u00a0I had no heart problems nor any family history of heart issues. I was a very active … Continue reading Welcome!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":340,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/statinvictim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/statinvictim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/statinvictim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/statinvictim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/statinvictim.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/statinvictim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":373,"href":"https:\/\/statinvictim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions\/373"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/statinvictim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/statinvictim.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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