Recent studies and testimonials have linked the use of cholesterol-lowering statin drugs to amnesia, dementia, memory loss and Alzheimer's disease.

Memory loss, Compromised Cognitive Function, Confusion, and Disorientation are some of the side effects reported to the FDA on these potentially devastating drugs, but they are not being explained to most patients by their doctors. These reports number into the thousands, but the medical community by-in-large has chosen to remain mute on the subject.

“Initial research studies did not find memory problems to be a side effect. The problem with clinical studies is that they only track patients for a few weeks or months under controlled circumstances. The dark side of these drugs often occur months or years later. This is why so many drugs are taken off the market several years later. This is why most medical websites do not list memory loss as a problem or its significance is downplayed,” wrote Kate Freer in a recent Yahoo news story on statin drugs. “This is where the real injustice is occurring. There are thousands of complaints involving memory and mental function problems registered from patients while taking Statin drugs. These complaints are registered with AERS (Adverse Event Reporting System), a agency of the FDA. Of these 5,000 reports collected by the beginning of 2008 on Statin drugs, memory problems were the second most-recorded complaint. Muscle pain was the first. Patients reported that their memory problems disappeared when they discontinued the drugs. These complaints are either being downplayed or ignored completely.”

“A year later, they re-started me on the same statin, Lipitor, at half the previous dose, saying that my first 6-hour episode of TGA was only a coincidence,” said Dr. Graveline. “Two months later, I again experienced TGA. For twelve hours I was a thirteen-year-old high school student who knew my subjects, teachers and every kid in my class (according to my worried wife) but with no memory for my entire adult life. I laughed when they told me I was married with children and a doctor. I could not have doctored a mouse and certainly had no children. I was thirteen! Fifty-six years of rich and fulfilled adult life had vanished from my mind as if it had never occurred.”

Dr. Graveline's first book, Lipitor®, Thief of Memory, was written after his two bouts of transient global amnesia associated with the use of Lipitor® in the years 1999 - 2000. “Predictably at that time, I was focused on cognitive dysfunction and Lipitor®. I soon realized the adverse reactions involved far more than impaired cognition, including personality change, myopathy, neuropathy and a chronic neuromuscular degeneration similar to ALS and all statins were contributing to these adverse reactions, not just Lipitor®.”
In his second book, Statin Drugs Side Effects, Dr. Graveline covers reductase inhibition. “The reductase step blocked by statins was at the very beginning of the mevalonate pathway. This pathway to cholesterol synthesis is also shared by many extremely important biochemical substances, including coenzyme Q10, inhibition of which was the cause of many of these side effects.”

For exhaustive information on statin drugs and their potentially harmful side effects, vistin Dr. Graveline's website, www.spacedoc.com

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