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Question
I have taken
Lipitor,
Zocor,
Zetia,
and Vytorin
for my cholesterol. I also have diabetes along with
neuropathy
in my feet and stenosis. Since I have taken the above medicines, I have
become almost crippled with leg pain and weakness, and it is the worst
thing. Yesterday, I told my doctor that I will not take any
more
cholesterol medicines. I also noticed today that my blood
sugar was down. I wonder if this has any effect.
Answer
Pain can raise your blood sugar, so perhaps getting the pain controlled was
the reason for the improvement you noticed in blood
sugar levels.
However, I'm puzzled as to how those meds would cause you to
have pain, unless they were provoking a fairly uncommon side effect of the
statins, called rhabdomyolysis.
Rhabdo can be life-threatening, and it is certainly something your doctor
should have told you about (but it
wouldn't hurt to ask, just to be sure that that wasn't the problem!).
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