My husband and brother got very ill on Lipitor. Try some natural ways first if you can.
My Motto: Faith and Pills With Love š 18's Dx 1/2004 CML Leukemia Started Gleevec 2/2004 Started Tasigna 9/2009 Started Sprycel 11/2009 Started Ponatinib 1/2015 Doctor Balducci Moffitt Cancer Center > On Jul 21, 2016, at 1:42 AM, Joyce Mesnarich <[email protected]> wrote: > > Peter, > This is like comparing apples and oranges, but when my husband was on Sprycel > his primary physician prescribed lipitor. Next trip he made to Dr Talpaz > (CML specialist) he was taken off lipitor and put on crestor. He didnāt have > any problems with eitherā¦.until he had pleural effusion. He was taken off > Sprycel and Crestor. He is now on Bosulif, and doing well without a statin. > Sometimes I think drs are too quick to make us think we need a statin. Just > my opinion. We are both taking CoQ10 and a good quality fish oil and both of > our cholesterol counts are down. Still eating gravy and potatoes, too. Just > my 2 cents worth. > Joyce in IL > > > >> On Jul 19, 2016, at 3:37 PM, Peter <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi everybody. >> Has anyone taken Lipitor (atorvastatin) while on Tasigna? >> The drug interactions checker says that Tasigna can increase the absorption >> of Lipitor, which could be a bad thing. >> >> My doc put me on Crestor (rosuvastatin) four weeks ago. This is totally not >> working for me - extreme weakness, confusion, loss of appetite, etc., so I >> am looking for an alternative. >> >> Any advice would be greatly appreciated. >> >> Peter >> >> -- >> -- >> [CMLHope] >> A support group of http://cmlhope.com >> ------------------------------------------------- >> >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "CMLHope" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] >> For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/CMLHope >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "CMLHope" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > -- > [CMLHope] > A support group of http://cmlhope.com > ------------------------------------------------- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "CMLHope" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/CMLHope > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "CMLHope" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- [CMLHope] A support group of http://cmlhope.com ------------------------------------------------- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CMLHope" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/CMLHope --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CMLHope" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
