Showing posts with label simvastatin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label simvastatin. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Went off cholesterol medicine

The last time I had my cholesterol checked I was really doing well with it. This was in September sometime. I then read that statins prohibits the absorbtion of CoQ10. CoQ10 is good for the heart and the brain. So I went off the statin drug simvastatin and started taking CoQ10. In about two weeks, maybe 2.5 weeks, depression set back in. Cholesterol medicine lowers inflammation in the body. Inflammation causes depression. I did not know this about how the cholesterol medication worked until a couple of days ago. Apparently I am still loaded with inflammation. I will continue to work on this through change of diet. And going back on the cholesterol med.
Tumeric, Zyflamend and Bromelain, for supplements
I have been eating small ammounts of cheese as well and mayo. I am allergic to both. Also I probably have metal toxicity. This alone would cause a high level of inflammation.
I also stopped taking the probiotic and digestive enzyemes that I had been taking. I am on them again. These probiotics and enzyems help digestion and lower inflammation.
Now for food I will use tumeric to put into foods. I will continue to research this.

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Back on Paxil

I restarted the paxil on the 24th, just two days after the last post. I tried to mega dose it, going up to 45mg, 15mg in morning, 15 afternoon, and 15 mg in evening. I did this for three days and on the 28th I remained at 15 mg continuing each day. I seems that the mega dosing doesn't really help. I went off for the 9 days and it took 9 days to come back up. It has always been that way.
I went back on the simvastatin after one week off of it. I am getting the body soreness back, but not so bad.

Thursday, January 22, 2009

Body Aches and Pains

The aches and pains got to me finally and I looked up the simvastatin and found out that the cholesterol drug can cause some of the problem. I went off the drug on the 19th. The next day I felt 85% better and it continues to get better. However all the aches and pains have not gone away. I still have upper back tension and migraines. Lot of tension in the jaw area.
My teeth problems continue. They are slowly and surely getting better. Dr Ong works on me weekly now. But there are other teeth not in the work area that are hurting as well. One day at a time.
The  VNS implant is helping the weight come off. I seem to run around here as if I have a firecracker up my butt. And there is very little appetite. Food is not necessary to enjoy life anymore. At least when the implant is turned up to where it should be.
In the last 24 hours I have been more short tempered. So it is one week since I quit the paxil.