Hi Becks,

My mother has Vascular dementia, and was prescribed by her specialist to go onto Simvastatin, with in 2 weeks the pains in her joints had gone up 10 fold and her memory was even worse considering what she had been the weeks before.

I spoke to her GP about this and we agreed to take her off them for 6 weeks, within a week the pains had near enough subsided, back to what I would call normal, considering her history, and the memory within 2 weeks had improved slightly, certainly confusion on where she was had improved.

We then decided to try her back on them and again within the 2 weeks again all the same effects had happened.

I called the drs surgery and left word with the doctor that I was taking her off them as I saw no improvement in her life to be on them. The doctor called me later on that day and agreed that with all points taken in consideration that she should not be on them.

I personally dont see any health improvement in many people at all who suffer AD/VAD or any other dementia area.

THIS IS ONLY MY THOUGHTS AND I HAVE NO MEDICAL TRAINING.

Hope this helps for you to take any decision into consideration.

x