Beware of Statins

[Liar]

...whatever those are.

http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2009/03/07/Statins_may_reduce_joy_of_sex/UPI-72501236402046/

Statins may reduce joy of sex
Published: March 7, 2009 at 12:00 AM

CHICAGO, March 6 (UPI) -- A U.S. study suggests some statin drugs used to lower cholesterol may also reduce sexual pleasure, researchers said.

The research, involving more than 1,000 adults with high LDL cholesterol, found patients who took simvastatin -- marketed as Zocor -- had the largest LDL drop and the largest drop in sexual pleasure, USA Today reported Friday. Pravastatin -- marketed as Pravachol -- did not lower LDL as well as Zocor but patients reported no significant decline in sexual pleasure, the report said.

The findings were presented Friday at the American Psychosomatic Society meeting in Chicago.

Lead researcher Beatrice Golomb of the University of California-San Diego School of Medicine said statins may reduce Coenzyme Q10, a nutrient that boosts energy. Researchers said there may also be an issue of brain chemistry, sensory nerves or the spinal cord, the newspaper reported.

 

[DesertPirate]

Always knew there was a drug problem in this country

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Still waiting for PL-6283 . . .

 

[redpaint]

I really need to go check and see the name of the drfug I am taking. This could explan a few things.

 

[slyc_willie]

Still waiting for PL-6283 . . .

Is that anywhere near LV 426?

(geek check)

 

[Weird Harold]

...whatever those are.

http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2009/03/07/Statins_may_reduce_joy_of_sex/UPI-72501236402046/

I'm not sure what they are, but I'm pretty sure there is regular ferry service to their island.

 

[oggbashan]

My doctor prescribed statins for me.

He said that if I had a problem as a result of the statins he would prescribe Viagra as well.

I haven't needed the Viagra.

Og

 

[glynndah]

I've obviously been doing too much laundry. I keep reading that as "beware of stains".

 

[Caitano]

I've obviously been doing too much laundry. I keep reading that as "beware of stains".

"Doing too much" laundry? I didn't know you could overdose.

 

[glynndah]

"Doing too much" laundry? I didn't know you could overdose.

Oh, yeah. That's why I have to let it pile up.

 

[R. Richard]

As a part of a regular physical exam, I had my chloesteral checked. I was well within normal limits. The rest of my physical signs were right were they should be, except that my heartbeat is a bit low. The proximate cause of the lowered heartbeat is the same as for a distance runner. My heart pumps more blood with each beat and therfore I need less beats per minute.

The method that I use to control chloesterol is daily exercise. I work different muscle groups, on a day by day basis. I always hit 100% effort, each day, but not in the same muscle group. I start with a 100% cardio effort each day to get things going and to leave me at the point where I have to struggle to get through the rest of the workout. It's a bit of work, but when I get in a fight with some huge, ignorant mofo, I just wait until he gets tired and then I go inside and cut me some meat.

If you people would just try exercise, instead of drugs, you'll get the same results or better and with much better side effects.

JMNTHO.

 

[oggbashan]

...

If you people would just try exercise, instead of drugs, you'll get the same results or better and with much better side effects.

JMNTHO.

I would if I could. I exercise twice daily to keep my body as mobile as it can be but ankylosing spondilitis limits what is possible.

Statins help to keep the balance between reasonable circulation and inability to do much.

Og

 

[R. Richard]

I would if I could. I exercise twice daily to keep my body as mobile as it can be but ankylosing spondilitis limits what is possible.

Statins help to keep the balance between reasonable circulation and inability to do much.

Og

The only thought I have is for you to contact a doctor of Chinese medicine. They have treatments for conditions that western medicine still hasn't discovered.

 

[john-the-author]

The only thought I have is for you to contact a doctor of Chinese medicine. They have treatments for conditions that western medicine still hasn't discovered.

Exercise will certainly help enormously (as will diet), but some people just tend to run high on cholesterols no matter what. In the same way, the ratio of LDL-HDL is genetically determined, although you can certainly affect the ratio with diet and exercise.

I've been on simvastatin for a long time and it's made no apparent difference to my enjoyment of sex.

 

[Liar]

If you people would just try exercise, instead of drugs, you'll get the same results or better and with much better side effects.

I'm a fat couch potato. In a periodically high stress job.

Naturally, this has been cause for concern. Not only because it cramps my pulling power, but because it should wreak havoc on everything from my blood cholestorol to my joints. In a family like mine, with a history of diabetes and stroke, I should be screwed.

But everytime I do a complete check-up, my doctor just shakes his head. Cholestorol in check, blood pressure cool, blood sugar nowhere near alarming and my back and knees and everything straight and limber like nobody's business.

Which means it'll all hit me at once onde day. Oh joy.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

I'm on Zorcor and Zedia and as horny as ever. In fact when I was on prozac I was even hornier. Switching to paxil lowered my libido back to normal - about age 16 or so.

Due to a genetic predisposition of high ldl and low hdl and super high triglycerides (Niaspan to the rescue there), it doesn't matter how much I exercise nor what I cut out of my diet.

 

[midwestyankee]

If you people would just try exercise, instead of drugs, you'll get the same results or better and with much better side effects.

Running 20 miles per week for two years on a diet that included no more than 15 grams of fat per day had absolutely zero effect on my cholesterol count once the initial drop of about 10 per cent occurred. After that the only way to bring it down was with statin drugs.

And I've not had any drop in libido or virility during the five years that I've been taking them.

 

[aleph9410]

Hell, after reading that mess up above I'm happy with a kinked back and a couple of slipped discs.....

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Count me in along with Zeb. When in training I can knock my heartrate down to around 48/min. That's slow enough to alarm the nurses and it has no affect on my triglycerides at all. Genetics are hard to defeat with mere behavior.

 

[midwestyankee]

Count me in along with Zeb. When in training I can knock my heartrate down to around 48/min. That's slow enough to alarm the nurses and it has no affect on my triglycerides at all. Genetics are hard to defeat with mere behavior.

Make that impossible.

 

[aleph9410]

Genetics are hard to defeat with mere behavior.

Yah, I try to brute them about with occasional applications of scotch.

 

[JackLuis]

I keep reading the title as "Beware of the Satins", thought someone had stain problems on the sheets!

 

[R. Richard]

Running 20 miles per week for two years on a diet that included no more than 15 grams of fat per day had absolutely zero effect on my cholesterol count once the initial drop of about 10 per cent occurred. After that the only way to bring it down was with statin drugs.

And I've not had any drop in libido or virility during the five years that I've been taking them.

I'm not a doctor. However, you might consult one. You may be part of the problem, rather than part of the solution. You shortchange your body on fat and it responds by saving whatever fat it can. Normal human beings require a diet of 30% fat, 40% carbs and 30% protein. If you use a diet abnormally high/low in any component, you upset the balance of things.

 

[midwestyankee]

I'm not a doctor. However, you might consult one. You may be part of the problem, rather than part of the solution. You shortchange your body on fat and it responds by saving whatever fat it can. Normal human beings require a diet of 30% fat, 40% carbs and 30% protein. If you use a diet abnormally high/low in any component, you upset the balance of things.

Are you so arrogant that you think that just because I did not include the fact that the regimen I followed was done with my doctor's full knowledge and consent that I didn't have it? Geebus, man, you're not the only person in the universe with a brain.