CoQ10 found to reverse the side-effects of statin drugs
Posted on 30 May 2007
Published May 30, 2007 . Filed under: Cholesterol and Statins, Nutrients and Supplements
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Very useful & informative
March 29, 2008 @ 12:24 pm
What do you recommend that a patient taking simvastatin do about myopathy? I started taking 20 mg of simvastatin/day three years ago and I have been shocked to see from beach photographs of me from that time how massive my muscle loss has been. No doubt some of the profound fatigue I have been experiencing is due just to the loss of skeletal muscle.
September 20, 2008 @ 3:35 am
i had been on statins for 5 yrs when my muscle pain became very pronounced in that my left foot was so painful that i had to change to an auto car and could hardly walk for the pain.i left them off over 2 months ago and started a course of co enzyme q10.although some improvement still walk with a limp and cant walk far so is there anything else i can do or take for this muscle pain and weakness as my doctor doesnt have any answers for this problem.
November 13, 2008 @ 7:30 pm
I have been taking Simvastatin (following a triple bypass) for 5 years and have had pain in my left leg and have often said that I need to drive an automatic. About 2 months ago the pain became very bad and every night I have to get up and go downstairs, returning in the early hours after walking around a bit and also this prevents me being a disturbance. I find that my heart drugs cause digestive and bowel problems and would love to come off them but am too frightened to do it myself. My doctor does not seem to hear what I say and just asks me to try other drugs, usually one that makes me sleep all day and night. I prefer to have a life with pain! Although I eat the foods with CoQ10 already, I will try the tablets. All the best to everyone.
December 4, 2008 @ 6:20 pm
I have recently had a mild heart attack. The blood tests indicated that I had raised cardiac enzymes . An angiogram test showed that I have no damaged arteries and my heart muscles are OK. Of course I have been given the usual drugs to take but I am reluctant to take statins . The last time I had a cholesterol test it was 5, but the HDL could be higher. I have asked for another test when I would have to fast for 14 hours. However, my doctor would not let me do that. Is there anything I can do to improve my HDL and under the circumstances am I wise to stay off the statins?
February 27, 2009 @ 12:07 am
I had been taking Atorvastatin [40mg/day] for several years, I forget how many, when I developed severe pains in my legs. I stopped taking it and spoke to my GP. He tried a lower dose but the pain was as bad. I have been off them for about 3 weeks now. The pain still wakes me at night but isn’t as bad. I will try the CoQ10 tabs, thank you. As with a previous reply, I eat foods which contain it but no longer eat liver…………perhaps I’ll start on that again. I don’t know what my cholesterol levels are like now.
March 6, 2009 @ 8:43 pm
i would like to say like most that have wrriten on this pagei was on stattins for about a year.i had terrible muscel pain and leg pain.doctor took me off the statins and have not had any since i still get pains in my arms.SOi am going to get some Q10 and start takeing them.wish you well.
April 12, 2009 @ 1:25 am
[...] or planning to take a statin drug, is that they should at least accompany it with some CoQ10. CoQ10 found to reverse the side-effects of statin drugs | Dr Briffa’s Blog I often read Dr Briffa’s blog, it is always interesting. Also, I have been taking COQ10 for a few [...]
September 25, 2009 @ 10:34 am
[...] or planning to take a statin drug, is that they should at least accompany it with some CoQ10. CoQ10 found to reverse the side-effects of statin drugs | Dr Briffa’s Blog I often read Dr Briffa’s blog, it is always interesting. Also, I have been taking COQ10 for a [...]
September 26, 2009 @ 12:54 am
You can reduce high cholesterol and reduce likelihood of heart disease and heart attack and a host of other health problems by minimising intake of salt and salty food. Lowering sodium intake also reduces excess weight without dieting.
November 17, 2009 @ 8:22 pm
Sorry Margaret salt has no effect on Cholesterol synthesis, and has very little impact if any on normal non-hypertensive patients.
Statins – I have been on Lipitor for nearly 10 years and gradual age related increase in chol levels were addressed last year by an increase to 40mg, as a runner (probably now just a jogger to be honest) I started suffering calf muscle pulls that crippled me for days and prevented running for a month at a time. Eventually I overcame my skepticism and ordered some 100mg CoQ10. Six months on and no further muscle pulls, so it might be circumstantial but I dare not stop! I found a patent application by Merck&Co filed in 1989 2 years before they launched Zocor (simvastatin) which was for simvastatin plus CoQ10 combination (application number 07/298535) indicating a concern at the time of their phase III trials!
November 27, 2009 @ 8:05 pm
dear sir,
my husband has been on 20mg simvastatin for a year and a half now. he has severe muscle weakness, is lethargic and in a lot of pain, he even cries out in the night with the pain in his wrists and arms. he has lost his cognitive skills, he can no longer open a bottle of pop let alone do his job. i think he has myopathy and his gp does nothing. his liver functions are raised and he takes 8 x 30/500 co codamol in 24 hours and 50mg voltarol x3 times per day damaging his liver even more.i have made him stop the statin drug and supplement it with plant sterols, a drug called cardioace that i bought from the health food store. can the side effects from the statin drugs be reversed as i cant bear the thought of him being in this pain for ever. please help us. thank you
wendy marshall.
January 2, 2010 @ 7:58 pm
My doctor started me on a cholesterol-lowering drug which I took for 2 years. After this period of time, I experienced extreme muscle fatigue, burning and overall “tiredness” of my muscles (I mostly noticed it in my arm muscles when doing laundry, tidying up after my kids, making up beds, etc.). I stumbled on an article about CO-ENZYME Q10. I began using it (200mg daily). What a difference! Mind you, my doctor put me through numerous types of cardiac testing only to find my heart was in perfect condition. I strongly believe my body was depleted of CoEnzyme Q10, hence my muscular fatigue. I feel so much better now and wish more doctors would tell their patients to go on this nutrient if they are taking statins. Wish I knew a long time ago what I know now.
January 25, 2010 @ 11:08 pm
I am really happy that you published this article, I too strongly believe that taking statins (western med.) is very damaging to the very organ it is suposed to protect. I was on crestor 10 mg per day for three months and it did lower my tri,and HDL, but it also gave bad neck, back, arm, chest and stomach pains along with being tired and depressed. As I now learned that this CoQ10 can help I will surely be trying it , and I did see it mentioned alot on other web sites and alot of people who are either on/off statins had positive things to say about it. After visiting my doctor I told him the bad side effects of this crestor drug so he switched me to lipitor 40mg which I am not taking. I am going to fight my high tri an HDL with exercise and eating right and I would advise that everyone who is on or planning to take this (western med) Statins of any kind stop and go the natural way take it from one who tried it and thos who are still on it . All the best !
February 14, 2010 @ 2:41 am