"Psychiatric adverse effects, altering mood, personality, and behavior, sometimes arise in patients receiving statins.
Statin psychiatric effects can include irritability/aggression, anxiety or depressed mood, violent ideation, sleep problems including nightmares, and possibly suicide attempt and completion."
"Psychiatric adverse effects, altering mood, personality, and behavior, sometimes arise in patients receiving statins.
Statin psychiatric effects can include irritability/aggression, anxiety or depressed mood, violent ideation, sleep problems including nightmares, and possibly suicide attempt and completion."
I've found that informing my doctor what I want helps to find better solutions. The default of standard care is designed to provide best results for all patients, yet we're all different, so teamwork is important for tuning the treatments.
Thank you so much for this! She’s only 70 and was married to an MD for 30+ years (albeit one trained prior to WW II) so she takes my comments very lightly. She may not listen, but I will try…
Here's some more authoritative info that might help. From Dr Peter Attia, recommended to me by my cardiologist. This is the third of a 3 part series of articles on cholesterol and brain function, which describes the types of statins and their influence on the brain. A lot of his site requires a subscription, which is well worth the price, but I think these articles are freely available. Maybe you could give her a subscription for her birthday.
Yes!
"Psychiatric adverse effects, altering mood, personality, and behavior, sometimes arise in patients receiving statins.
Statin psychiatric effects can include irritability/aggression, anxiety or depressed mood, violent ideation, sleep problems including nightmares, and possibly suicide attempt and completion."
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5005588/#:~:text=Key%20Points%20Psychiatric%20adverse%20effects%2C%20altering%20mood%2C%20personality%2C,including%20nightmares%2C%20and%20possibly%20suicide%20attempt%20and%20completion.
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I've found that informing my doctor what I want helps to find better solutions. The default of standard care is designed to provide best results for all patients, yet we're all different, so teamwork is important for tuning the treatments.
Thank you so much for this! She’s only 70 and was married to an MD for 30+ years (albeit one trained prior to WW II) so she takes my comments very lightly. She may not listen, but I will try…
Apologies, but the discussion of statins is in the second article of Attia's three parter.
https://peterattiamd.com/does-low-cholesterol-cause-cognitive-impairment-part-ii/
Here's some more authoritative info that might help. From Dr Peter Attia, recommended to me by my cardiologist. This is the third of a 3 part series of articles on cholesterol and brain function, which describes the types of statins and their influence on the brain. A lot of his site requires a subscription, which is well worth the price, but I think these articles are freely available. Maybe you could give her a subscription for her birthday.
https://peterattiamd.com/low-ldl-cholesterol-and-neural-development/