Lipitor, Crestor will go to battle

If you want to lower your cholesterol, don't take a pill!!! Eat a bowl of oatmeal, the real stuff, for breakfast daily. After 30 days, you'll feel like a million bucks, and you won't lower your lifespan from taking pills! Also, eat an apple daily for optimal colon health.

Lipitor and Crestor will BOTH be in the news one day as causes of heart valve shutdown, kidney failure, etc. Don't listen to doctors that like to prescribe pills for everything! The doctors are being paid by the pharmaceutical companies to use their products! A pill is a quick fix and the body shouldn't be subjected to quick fixes.

May the Pharmaceutical Company with the most dollars to donate to this test and most free samples win fair and square.

Who the hell is The clinic trying to kid???

Statins change the function of your liver in many ways, not just cholesterol production. I threw my Lipitor away 8 months ago. Here is a link to some information about side effects and damage statins can do.

http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2004/03/...

So will this help determine which drug will be finally be "approved" for the Cleveland Clinic's employees who were once perscribed Zocor, switched to Litor, changed to the current required generic Simvastatin?

I totaly agree with "MOVED" and "RAMON" --- buyer beware. The health care industry, is just that, an "industry" hell-bent on making money first and foremost.

I say drop the drugs and start taking control of your own life. Do right by your body. The body doesn't like foreign meds manipulating it. It becomes a vicious cycle. I'm with you Moved, eat oatmeal, have an apple, learn to listen to your body.

The sky is falling! Evil drug companies run by greedy people! Malpractice lawsuits abound!

Hey, let's face it. Lab rats cost money and piss off PETA, while human beings PAY to be lab rats. Pretty much a no-brainer right?

I love the drug ads, especially when they list the side effects like "flushing, dry mouth, trouble urinating and fits of anal bleeding". Sure makes me wanna try out their product!

Just eat a healthy meal and 20minutes of exercise a day and thats all you need. Unless you have a genetic predispostion to high cholesteral. What are the differences in the side effects? All medicine developed today is symptomatically engineered, that is to treat the symptoms and not the cause.

Moved wrote:

If you want to lower your cholesterol, don't take a pill!!! Eat a bowl of oatmeal, the real stuff, for breakfast daily. After 30 days, you'll feel like a million bucks, and you won't lower your lifespan from taking pills! Also, eat an apple daily for optimal colon health.

Nothing wrong with that approach, as long is it works. May work for many people.

Don9of11 wrote:

Just eat a healthy meal and 20minutes of exercise a day and thats all you need. Unless you have a genetic predispostion to high cholesteral. What are the differences in the side effects? All medicine developed today is symptomatically engineered, that is to treat the symptoms and not the cause.

Dude--Meet Grump at the Rootstown Arby's for a drink.

Lipitor adverse reactions reports to reported to the FDA between April and June, 2007:

103 reports of MYALGIA
53 reports of PAIN IN EXTREMITY
45 reports of MUSCULAR WEAKNESS

Source:
http://adverse-drug-reaction.net/index.aspx

and if the companies stopped the advertising, billions a year in prescription costs would be saved. maybe helping lower drug costs!

http://www.cholesterol.medgrip.com

Moved wrote:

If you want to lower your cholesterol, don't take a pill!!! Eat a bowl of oatmeal, the real stuff, for breakfast daily. After 30 days, you'll feel like a million bucks, and you won't lower your lifespan from taking pills! Also, eat an apple daily for optimal colon health.

I agree. Liptor and Crestor has side effects that can cripple your life.