Morning shadyglade.im half way through watching this so thank you for posting.i was put on statins 20 years ago after being admitted to coronary care unit with chest pains.(knowing what I now know it was probably at the start of my menopause journey) they wanted me to go to John Radcliffe to discuss the possibility of having stents.id had an exercise test done at the hospital where they were physically holding me from behind on the treadmill as I couldn't do any longer on the exercise setting so really it wasn't an accurate test reading which I questioned at the time but was hushed up,who was I to question!.anyway I declined the John radclliffe appointment and was put on statins,within a matter of weeks I was in a terrible state I couldn't even lift a brush to my hair due to muscle weakness,I was told by my gp no it must be my M.E causing it the statins wouldn't do that I also suffered nose bleeds which I asked if the aspirin they'd put me on could do this and again it was don't be silly none of these drugs could cause any of these symptoms it must be something else.I then decided I wasn't going to drag through my life like this and stopped all the meds they'd given me,I refused anymore hospital interventions and drastically altered my diet,my bad cholesterol was 7 according to docs at the time,I bought a juicer and had pomegranate juice and any of the blue fruit family for breakfast,a healthy lunch and healthy dinner and carried on with this for months with no meds whatsoever.my next cholesterol test showed a reading of 3.5 the docs asked me what I'd done to achieve this and didn't comment much at all when I told him.i had a private scan done it cost nearly £1000 then and it came back I had zero furring in my arteries and my heart was in very good shape.where would I be now with invasive surgery and stents that were completly uneccesary I wonder.Next thing they should overhaul in my opinion is the urologists,completely uneccesary invasive procedures again as far as I'm concerned,it's one of the more barbaric departments in medicine to me and from what I've seen the usual end results is a pain management clinic after they've fannied around with people then dumped them,or worse still telling them their bladder pain is psycological.the stories I've read from people on bladder forums is pitiful and I refused to be bullied into going down that route and really clashed with gps and urology dept over this.i was told in a couple of weeks when they discovered I'd bladder cancer I'd go back to my gp and say thank you for saving my life,I told her where to shove it.its a rarity to come across a good gp who doesn't live by financial incentives so treasure them when you do,xx
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