I have a planner and I write everything down. What will happen when I get bad enough to forget to write in the planner? My husband does this, too.

One of my friends is a retired foreign language teacher. She started teaching at a nearby community college because it is to hard to find teachers with her specialty. She started forgetting things, mostly names and proper nouns. She knew, but could not access the word. She quit the job, leaving a gaping hole in the community college's faculty. I understand her decision.

I am 75, and difficulty in word-finding is not unusual at our age.

There are a bunch of different statins and they each have different side effect profiles. I was put on pravastatin because it’s water soluble, so it exits the body quickly if I need to quit it.

over the last several years. I’m talking forgetting past and present events, data, word choice — things I wouldn’t have expected for another decade, at least. For years I’ve discussed menopause, depression, and other possible causes with my doctor. I was terribly afraid it might be early onset dementia. But this never came up. So thank you for this info — I just sent my doctor an email.

I am so sorry you are having these issues, and I really hope you find a solution!

I read that it was a possible side effect

After I started taking statins, I messed up four medical appointments. I never do that. I did not know that was attributable to statins. Recently, I stopped taking them because muscle pain was severe. I felt like I was becoming crippled. The doctors kept telling me that’s not symptoms from statins, but it is. Now the severe muscle pain is gone.

I have started to take an herbal supplement to help reduce my cholesterol. And sticking with lower cholesterol diet.

cramping stopped. But we never considered the statin starting it in the first place.

I have a genetic condition which makes my cholesterol high regardless of dietary changes. But could you tell me which herbal supplement you take, so i can ask my doctor if it might work for me?

I’ll have to add B12, my labs were a tad low anyway.

Emerald Labs - Cholesterol Health (it is high in niacin, which can cause headaches, so I am working my way up slowly to the full dose). Try iHerb or Amazon

I was taking both the atorvastatin and the cholesterol health, my LDL is low, HDL high. I can’t tell you if the cholesterol health is going to lower my cholesterol enough by itself. I will find out in 3 months.

that means taking Omega 3s makes my cholesterol worse. Since I stopped, my cholesterol was still high but not as high. I don’t know — you might check it out.

I take flax seed, fish oil is 😵

- older people with 210- 249 cholesterol live longer than those with 200 or less. Also, niacin works great for lowering cholesterol- if you really want to lower your cholesterol. Mine is 240 which according to this study is perfect.

“ Abstract

It is unclear whether associations between total cholesterol (TC) levels and all-cause mortality and the optimal TC ranges for lowest mortality vary by sex and age. 12,815,006 Korean adults underwent routine health examinations during 2001-2004, and were followed until 2013. During follow-up, 694,423 individuals died. U-curve associations were found. In the TC ranges of 50-199 and 200-449 mg/dL, each 39 mg/dL (1 mmol/L) increase in TC was associated with 23% lower (95% CI:23%,24%) and 7% higher (6%,7%) mortality, respectively. In the age groups of 18-34, 35-44, 45-54, 55-64, 65-74, and 75-99 years, each 1 mmol/L higher TC increased mortality by 14%, 13%, 8%, 7%, 6%, and 3%, respectively (P < 0.001 for each age group), for TC ≥ 200 mg/dL, while the corresponding TC changes decreased mortality by 13%, 27%, 34%, 31%, 20%, and 13%, respectively, in the range < 200 mg/dL (P < 0.001 for each age group). TC had U-curve associations with mortality in each age-sex group. TC levels associated with lowest mortality were 210-249 mg/dL, except for men aged 18-34 years (180-219 mg/dL) and women aged 18-34 years (160-199 mg/dL) and 35-44 years (180-219 mg/dL). ”

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30733566/