Coming Back

I haven't been on this for some time. Guess it is time to come back with something, anything to catch up! Been having lots of snow where we live, and more today. It is the kind that you really can't see very well if you are out in it, whiteout! Well, that is if you are elderly and at last facing up to your mortality!

My history goes from feeling really great in the summer, riding my road bike, blood tests all within normal range to feeling like I am going to explode. From July= good, to November= bad, and wondering what could have changed things so rapidly. I had been on my third full time statin to try and help lower my cholesterol, more importantly my triglycerides which seems to be genetic in my family as being high, and I was also having severe muscle pains in my thighs, knees, and groin area, and beyond. Well, it felt severe to me. It caused me to go and try to find out what was going on in my left knee! After the physiotherapy, and MRI, nothing was wrong but bone on bone and nothing to fix. So I tried to think of what I could do other than surgery which I don't want to do. Then at Thanksgiving gathering, I bloated up, gained about 6 lbs, was very uncomfortable, didn't want to eat much and decided I needed attention. I also had a tender hamstring on the same leg as the knee problem, and after I had intensive massage, limped a bit, swore I was getting tired of all of this, I stopped the statin. I had suspected maybe the statins were doing a number on my muscles. I went to see the local GP, had a blood test, and sure enough the AST (muscle damage revealing test) was elevated as was BUN (kidney function). Felt apprehensive about this. And now after two months, a liver etc. ultrasound, and worrying about hepatitis event, am feeling a bit better, although AST and ALT are still elevated. Guess I just have to heal!

But at my ascending age, I think I don't need a lot of miracle medicine that is going to make me better [NO], but maybe just a little more attention to my diet and keeping up the exercise! I know the drug companies want to sell their new wonder drugs, but maybe I should just try to keep on keeping on with attention to joive de vie! I just may be feeling a lot better than I was about three months ago!