Doctor visit - good news bad news good news etc.

[JerseyMike]

Started out some years back on Lipitor until strange liver numbers on a blood test. Was switched to pravastatin and have been fine. They're both statins but for whatever reason the lipitor gave me problems and the pravastatin doesn't.

Good luck!
Mike

 

[SkiWhiz]

Started out some years back on Lipitor until strange liver numbers on a blood test. Was switched to pravastatin and have been fine. They're both statins but for whatever reason the lipitor gave me problems and the pravastatin doesn't.

Good luck!
Mike

Have to keep a real close watch on the liver while taking these meds. I was taking off Lipitor (thank God) and will be starting Simvastatin in 4 or 5 days, Doc. is hoping my legs cramps will be better after 4 or 5 days without the Lipitor. Good luck to you to Mike, its a tough battle we share.

 

[njal]

I was a berry and grape freak for the first year, a pint of blueberries and a pint of strawberries each day, as well as a few cups of red or black grapes. My Dr told me to drink a glass of red wine each day, but I'm not a wine or liquor person. I drank a lot of orange juice (low acid) as well. My Dr was impressed with the results. I guess "you are what you eat" may have some truth in it......

Dusty

Dusty I did basically the same think 9 years ago when my blood pressure and cholesterol were off the chart.I would do the blackberries or blueberries in the blender with some soy milk.I think that and the lipitor and watching what I ate got my cholesterol and blood pressure back in check. I did losse 25 lbs by watching what I ate. But I gained 10 lbs back this winter.

 

[Rudy]

What is the best way for me to take vitamic C, pill form or by drinking orange juice,etc. and if by pill form any special amount of mg they should be. Thanks Rudy.

In the 1960s, the Nobel-Prize-winning chemist Linus Pauling, after contact with Irwin Stone, began actively promoting vitamin C as a means to greatly improve human health and resistance to disease. His book "How to Live Longer and Feel Better" was a bestseller and advocated taking more than 10,000 milligrams per day orally, thus approaching the amounts released by the liver directly into the circulation in other mammals (humans are one of the few mammals unable to manufacture vitamin C).

I don't take anywhere near that much. I take around 1000 milligrams.

In either case, you'd have to drink a lot of OJ to get that much vitamin C so I take pills.