American Healthcare Follies: I took two statins and had bad reactions. I was asked to please take one more statin before The Miracle Shot, so I did and I had a REALLY bad reaction I'm still recovering from. Why did we do the third? Insurance companies insist on three.
Why do they insist on three? Because the Miracle Shot is significantly more expensive than the statins so insurance companies want you to truffle-pig through every probably-not-great medication before you settle on, you know, the gold-quality thing that will Just Work.
The Miracle Shot, for people who care, is Repatha.
The result, therefore, is I've had two months of miserable feeling reacting to a drug nobody would normally experiment with putting into me after my previous reactions, just to make sure I get the good drug.
No medical doctor wants how I describe things, but I'll do it any way: Statins punch the crap out of your liver so it makes less cholesterol. Repatha basically makes the good cholesterol in your system live 30% longer so it fights for you like an elderly Superman.
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