PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - Statins Bad press
View Single Post
Old 30th Sep 2015, 23:34
  #29 (permalink)  
Pace
 
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: In the boot of my car!
Posts: 5,982
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
There has to be confidence in what the medical world says and there has been enough smoke around Statins to cause a lot of concern on whether the benefits out way the negatives of taking these drugs.

You have to remember that the same medical world not long ago were pushing these drugs to be taken by everyone and perfectly healthy people over the age of 50.

Then we hear new claims on how dangerous statins are and how crippling they can be. We see post after post by ordinary people stating what awful, crippling side effects they are experiencing yet this is brushed aside by the medical world claiming that all is wonderful in the garden with these drugs.

There maybe benefits to some who tolerate the drugs and who have serious heart disease but when we see the medical world trying to promote Statins for mass consumption and medication is it no wonder that the ordinary laymen looses confidence in what the medical world are saying in the drugs defence and become suspicious of both the knowledge and motivation behind those assurances?

Pace
Pace is offline