Really Upset

[TOWIE]

I've just come back from seeing the practice nurse - she has said that because of my 7.9 cholesterol reading it would be advisable to start taking the statins. She has prescribed 40mg of Simivastin and said I am in danger of a heart attack if I do not take them. As my diet is quite healthy she said it must be down to genes that I have inherited My late Mum also took Simivastin, which I always blamed for her dementia and she was only on 20mg.

I have always been against taking statins for this reason.

[tonyav]

Try and prove her wrong, Den. I hear swimming is pretty good exercise.

[DTCwordfan]

That's what I would do too - mine came down 0.9 points when I lost two stone (which I should do again) - not that it was high to begin with 5.1 down to 4.2, the bad stuff at 1.9....

[TOWIE]

Tony - thats why I bought those trainers, to get into some sort of shape, but due to falling down a rabbit hole and then this week I tripped up the stairs and have buggered my knee up and pulled a muscle between my shoulder blades - that has been put on hold.

My son is a personal fitness trainer and wants to train me, but I fear we would not get to the end of the road, with me punching him, for shouting at me..........{:o(

[DTCwordfan]

agree on that - could he swap with some one else to take his colleague's mother and he/she take you.....

[tonyav]

Well, Den you can't fall down rabbit holes or stairs in the swimming pool can you.

[TOWIE]

Not really DT, they are all based in London and don't live local - but I am gonna buck my ideas up now that I have stopped crying, though I now have a big red face and swollen eyes {:o(

[TOWIE]

No Tone, but I could slip getting into the pool or pull a muscle getting into my swimming cossie {:o(

[tonyav]

Bet your still lovely though, Den x

[DTCwordfan]

Our Tone is a big "smoother", Den.......

[TOWIE]

I know DT - despite him having a passion for skirt wearing, he is not a bad sort....{:o)

[tonyav]

Oi Essex, I't a bloody kilt I tell ya lol.

[TOWIE]

yea yea Tone, but not many kilts have lace frills and lurex around the hem..........anyway I am off to peel my brussels sprouts and dice my carrots......thank you all for chatting to me. Den xx

[tonyav]

See ya, Den.

[gordie1]

Hi I am on simvastatin 40mg a day and it is fine I have had no problems. When I went to get my cholestrol checked it was 8.9 and my GP told me as I am type 2 diabetic I am at high risk of cv problems. So I took them and it is down to 4.5. Last year I was having joint pain so I asked to come off them for a month before I went off it was 4.2 then after a month off i got it checked and it was 8.5 so put straight back on them. My mother was 60 when she was diagnosed cholestrol was 13.2 catastrophicly high and she was put on cresta she has now got it down to under 4. So I think it is genetic. Her dad died of a stroke at 81

[smurfchops]

My cholesterol was 7.7 and doctor put me on 40mg simvastatin, after thinking through whether I wanted to be a walking time bomb or whether I wanted peace of mind regarding having a heart attack or a stroke. Anyway my cholesterol went down to 4.6 and I then I made the decision to halve the dose. So on 20mg my cholesterol is now 5.0. I have never had any muscle ache with statins and feel my health is important. I eat healthily and am a little overweight, around half a stone. There is a lot of heart disease in my family, my mother took statins and various other tablets and lived to 93, very healthily, and I am sure due to statins etc.

[TOWIE]

Thank you both, gordie1 and smurfy for your answers. {:o) x