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Question: If I Want To Control My Cholesterol Level With Lipitor, Do I Have To Take It For The Rest Of My Life?
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My doc says that lipitor is ongoing (meaning you must take it for forever) or my cholesterol levels will raise, again. Is this true? or should I take the lipitor to reduce my cholesterol then diet and exercise to keep it down. My cholesterol level is 275.
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Answer #1
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I am not a doctor, but I was told that this is a drug one has to take forever. I wonder if you have side effects ? I also have 275 chol. level (hdl-35) and I began this drug 3 weeks ago. Thank you if you let me know.
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Answer #2
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I have no intention of taking any of this heart medication forever, except maybe the aspirin. I suppose all heart patients could sit out the rest of their lives and take the chemical medicine that doctors give us. We must all remember that we got ourselves in this shape so it up to us to get our selves out of this shape. Find out what you need to eat to change your condition and exercise. Next pick a date in the 21st century that you want to celebrate, mine is the 125th celebration of the Spanish American War sometime around 2034. I'm 62. Go kicking and screaming when your relatives try to drag you off to the "old peoples" home, unless of course it has co-ed rooming.
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Answer #3
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Doctors don't know everything, and they don't tell you everything. They generally keep you in the dark as to what they are doing to you, and you are expected to obey their treatment without question. But they have no idea, with all the patients that they have, what is pertinent to each individual case that they have. They look into a manila folder like this folder is a crystal ball and think that they can monitor your illness from there. The drug stores of our country have lines of people waiting for prescriptions that some of them probably should not even be on. You must be willing and able to participate in everything that the doctors do to you! Ask them questions - make them explain everything to you, such as serious possible side effects or whether you may control a condition some other way such as diet and exercise.
If you are a hypertensive person who has been taking hydrochlorothiazide, which can elevate certain parts of your cholesterol such as tryglicerides and LDL, and your doctor has put you on Lipitor to lower these cholesterol levels and then another doctor changes your hypertension drug over to a beta-blocker such as Toprol-XL, the negative cholesterol effects of the hydrochlorothiazide have been eliminated. With that in mind, one should possibly hold off taking the Lipitor until a new blood test has been taken to determine if the changing from hydrochlorothiazide to Toprol-XL has in itself lowered the affected cholesterols. Who wants to take a drug (Lipitor) for life if they don't have to? It can't hurt to ask these questions. Find out!
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