16 yrs ago a script was written for Lipitor to address my condition. At the time I was enroll in grad school, and the med immediately affected my ability to remember what I had just read, this went on for a few days and I stopped taking the Lipitor, telling my doctor not to prescribe that for me, telling him that I believed it causes memory loss.
Since then we have had the same discussion every 6/9months monitoring my heart and cardiovascular system. He argues for the drug and I argue it cause alizmers, which he states there is no proof or research to confirm that side effect, till now.
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Lipitor thief of memory is a book written by Dr. Duane Graveline who was also an Astronaut who had high cholesterol and was put on Lipitor.
The most common Statin drugs for cholesterol lowering medication is Lipitor and Crestor. Dr. Graveline was told he had high cholesterol and shortly after Statin, Lipitor drug was started by doctors at Johnson Space Center he temporarily loses his short-term memory, so he stopped the Lipitor and after a couple of weeks his mind was clear again. At his yearly testing his doctor tells him his cholesterol level is still a bit high and urge him to get back on Statin, Lipitor at half the previous dose saying that his first 6-hour episode of TGA was only a coincidence. Two months later he again lost both short-term and retrograde memory and was finally diagnosed in a hospital ER as having transient global amnesia (TGA) for twelve hours where he was a thirteen-year-old high school student who knew his subjects, teachers and every kid in his class (according to his worried wife) but with no memory of his entire adult life, so he stopped the drug immediately.
After his recovery and after several years of research on statin drug side effects, he considered himself to be lucky to have had only TGA, for when it is over, you are back to normal. Not so for most of the other statin victims in his bulging repository with their persistent neuromuscular problems, short term memory loss and ALS and Parkinsonism-like reactions. He decided to put his story up on the internet and within hours thousands responded with people saying that the same thing happened to them.
What the cholesterol lowering medication does is it blocks the pathway in the liver that the liver uses to make cholesterol, but the same pathway that the liver uses to make cholesterol is used to make coenzyme Q10. Coenzyme Q10 is your heart protected enzyme. So anyone who goes on Statin drug has lost their heart protective enzyme on top of the side effects of statin drugs which are Dementia, Alzheimer’s, memory loss, muscle wasting and breast cancer because our sex hormone are made from cholesterol. There is No proof whatsoever that Cholesterol and saturated fat cause Heart Disease, but there are plenty of proof that Cholesterol Medication is linked to both Alzheimer and Dementia.
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