Hi there,
In my experience the Adco-Simvistatim is not a good Statin - not as strong as the original: Lipitor. I also have familial-high-cholestorol and have been on Lipitor since my early 20's and for the past 6 years I was on 20-40-60mg Nexium.
The 6 months that I was on Simvistatim, my Trigs went up and when I changed to Lipitor, my levels came down and is still under control.
Just check your levels again in about 3 months, but try to get Lipitor/Aspavor instead.
All the best,
I disagree strongly with Red Star's discussion regarding cholesterol. I paid a very, very high price for the fear of taking a statin. The risk of liver problems is extremely small with taking Nexium and any statin.
I had high cholesterol number like you present when I was your age and decided to use 'natural' means, including diet and exercise to lower it, and it worked to some degree. However, over a seven year period I had to have eight stents, a pacemaker, finally had bypass surgery. Had I simply taken a statin drug when my Cardiac Artery Disease/high cholesterol developed, I could have avoided a lot of problems.
You didn't mention why you are taking Nexium. In my opinion, it's not a difficult process to stop taking it.
Good luck with your cholesterol and GERD problems.
Yes you will live longer and healthier without both of these drugs. These drugs put the HARM in big pHARMa.
"The popular belief is that acid reflux is due to an excessive amount of hydrochloric acid in the stomach. New science has revealed that this is not the case. GERD is most often caused by too little hydrochloric acid being secreted by the stomach.
During digestion the stomach secretes acid to lower its pH to around 1.5-2.5 range. More protein in the meal results in a greater need for stomach acid. Individuals with non-obstructive acid reflux are often not able to get their pH low enough. The LES is known to be a pH sensitive valve that initiates closure when pH drops under 3.0. When the stomach does not have enough acid, the LES remains open and acid can spill into the esophageal region and damage the tissue." - Beat acid reflux naturally by Dr. David Jockers
If “high cholesterol” were the cause of heart disease, you’d expect it to be a risk factor in:
All populations around the world.
In both men and women.
In people of all ages.
And you’d also expect that lowering cholesterol should prevent heart disease.
Makes sense, right?
Unfortunately for the lipophobes, the cholesterol hypothesis fails on all fronts.
High cholesterol is not a risk factor in all populations. The French have among the highest cholesterol levels in the world, and among the lowest rates of heart disease of any industrialized nation. The Austrians and other European nations are similar.
Women on average have 300% lower rates of heart disease than men, despite higher average cholesterol levels. The rate of heart disease in 65 year-old men is 10 times that of 45-year old men. Yet high cholesterol is not a risk factor in men over 65. (In fact, men over 65 with low cholesterol (<150 mg/dL) are twice as likely to die from heart disease as those with normal or even "high" cholesterol.)
Finally, more than 40 trials have been performed to see if lowering cholesterol prevents heart disease. In some trials more people got heart disease, in others fewer. But when all the results were taken together, just as many people died in the treatment groups (those who took cholesterol-lowering drugs) as the control groups (those who did not)." - 5 reasons not to worry about your cholesterol numbers by Chris Kresser.