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Q: How Does CoQ10 Levels Deplete? Does Taking a simvastatin (Zocor) Affect levels of CoQ10?
Last week my docotor said I had high cholesterol. I’m only a 20-year old male. However, I’m overweight at 220 pounds and 5′7. Over the past year or two, I haven’t been eating healthy. So I personally attribute my high cholesterol levels to my inactvity + poor diet. My docotor came back with my blood results and prescribed Zocor ( a simvastatin) to help lower my bad cholesterol levels.
I’m supposed to take 40 MG pill daily of this. I took my first pill tonight of 40MG. Doing some further research online, I’ve found some discomforting information regarding the ’statin’ family of drugs. I’m paticullary worried about the depletion of CoQ10 levels, which have been shown to have beneficial effects themselves. After all my research, I’ve decided I’m not going to go on the meds and just try the more “natural” route and just eat healthier and exercise.
My biggest concern is this: Will the Pill I took of 40MG affect my levels at all? If so, will the levels return to ‘normal’ considering I’m 100% discontinuing this drug? I’ll wait until more information comes out on this drug. Until then, I don’t feel safe doing so.
A: Simvastatin has been around for many years. While any statin has been shown to lower CoQ10 levels, it’s interesting that a couple of studies (Sorry, but I don’t have the reference handy) have shown that supplementing patients with CoQ10 has no effect on the rate of side effects.
There’s a lot of unscientific sites out there (spacedoc.net for one) that rail about the dangers of statins. Given the millions of statin scripts filled annually, there should be a lot more people stopping the drugs if they were as dangerous as some claim.
I’ve been on high dose simvastatin & niacin for YEARS. No side effects. No muscle weakness, no liver damage, no cognitive changes. Nada.
Q: Please Read. Question about Zocor.?
Last week my docotor said I had high cholesterol. I’m only a 20-year old male. However, I’m overweight at 220 pounds and 5′7. Over the past year or two, I haven’t been eating healthy. So I personally attribute my high cholesterol levels to my inactvity + poor diet. My docotor came back with my blood results and prescribed Zocor ( a simvastatin) to help lower my bad cholesterol levels.
I’m supposed to take 40 MG pill daily of this. I took my first pill tonight of 40MG. Doing some further research online, I’ve found some discomforting information regarding the ’statin’ family of drugs. I’m paticullary worried about the depletion of CoQ10 levels, which have been shown to have beneficial effects themselves. After all my research, I’ve decided I’m not going to go on the meds and just try the more “natural” route and just eat healthier and exercise.
My biggest concern is this: Will the Pill I took of 40MG affect my levels at all? If so, will the levels return to ‘normal’ considering I’m 100% discontinuing this drug? I’ll wait until more information comes out on this drug. Until then, I don’t feel safe doing so.
A: One pill will not have much effect at all, and all levels will return almost immediately. Good for you, too, on doing your research. The doctor should have prescribed diet and exercise for 6 months before turning to drugs.
Q: Please Read. Question about Zocor.?
Last week my docotor said I had high cholesterol. I’m only a 20-year old male. However, I’m overweight at 220 pounds and 5′7. Over the past year or two, I haven’t been eating healthy. So I personally attribute my high cholesterol levels to my inactvity + poor diet. My docotor came back with my blood results and prescribed Zocor ( a simvastatin) to help lower my bad cholesterol levels.
I’m supposed to take 40 MG pill daily of this. I took my first pill tonight of 40MG. Doing some further research online, I’ve found some discomforting information regarding the ’statin’ family of drugs. I’m paticullary worried about the depletion of CoQ10 levels, which have been shown to have beneficial effects themselves. After all my research, I’ve decided I’m not going to go on the meds and just try the more “natural” route and just eat healthier and exercise.
My biggest concern is this: Will the Pill I took of 40MG affect my levels at all? If so, will the levels return to ‘normal’ considering I’m 100% discontinuing this drug? I’ll wait until more information comes out on this drug. Until then, I don’t feel safe doing so.
A: The answer to your question is that taking one pill will have had no real effects on anything in your body at all. Zocor is not a drug that has instant effects, and one pill will not have changed anything appreciably.
However, I will suggest that you discuss this further with your doctor. You may be absolutely right that your cholesterol levels are due to poor diet, and it would be ideal for all sorts of reasons if you could get your weight down and get more exercise. Generally, a trial of better diet and exercise is exactly what would be recommended for a young person who has a first test come back with high levels of cholesterol/triglycerides/LDL–you don’t say what the numbers were.
But I’m not your doctor, and I don’t know whether or not there is anything else in your history that was particularly alarming and which may have led the doctor to prescribe a statin for you immediately. I have some patients with genetic reasons for high cholesterol levels who are on statins at much younger ages, and they need to be. The trouble with high cholesterol levels is that they tend to have been that way for quite some time, and the damage is cumulative.
One final word of warning–be careful with online research. There is a lot of information out there, but it is not always easy to interpret it or even to tell whether or not it is correct. The doctor should probably have done a better job of explaining the risks and benefits of the treatment s/he was recommending, but the fact is that you are also accepting a certain risk in not taking the medication–the risks that are carried by having high cholesterol levels. It is fine to decide that you would rather not take medication, but the fact is that statins are remarkably safe drugs overall. (Every cardiologist I know seems to be on them…) At the very least, the doctor will want to know that you are not planning to take the drug so s/he can help you monitor your cholesterol levels and can also probably help you find nutritional and exercise advice, if you should want it.
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