neighbor dakotacas...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
>
> My doctors agree that it would be fine for me to switch from lipitor
> (10mg) to SIM. (20 mg). For reasons that I"ll
> explain later .......is it OK, medically, to
> (1) make the change to SIM
With your doctors' blessings, yes.
> (2) get re-tested a few months(?) later (chol. and liver) to make
> sure it's working OK
This is the standard of care after a change in the statin (HMG-CoA
Reductase Inhibitor).
> (3) then go back to lipitor for a month or 2
Again, with your doctors' blessings, yes.
> (4) then when my lipitor supply runs out for good, go back to SIM
> permanently
Again, with your doctors' blessings, yes.
> My main question is the interchangeability between the 2 drugs. I
> know that there's no problem
> changing from one to the other, but is changing back and forth a few
> times, over a period
> of a few months, any problem?
Not as long as your doctors are aware of it.
> (I know, of course, it would make the
> near-future cholesterol tests
> impossible to interpret as far as how the "drug" is working"....) but
> that's not my concern here.
>
> I"m just concerned whether it would have any negative effects or
> possibly harmful effects.
>
> And extending this, just to a hypothetical case, what if someone
> changed from one to the other
> each week, for maybe a few months (not that I would be doing
> that).
>
> I'm only doing this so save a little money and also keep up my supply
> of statins when I travel,
> without having to worry about getting refills if i'm in a far away
> place. It's not worth going into
> the details....
The most amount of savings and least amount of hassle would come from
losing all the VAT (black fat) so that your LDL would drop down to
less than 100 mg/dL on its own sans statins.
> thanks.
Laus Deo :-)
Prayerfully in the infinite power and might of the Holy Spirit,
Andrew <><
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