Thread by @holmanm

1/ Many of you know me because of my stance on Statin drugs. I have spent many hours over the past 14 years talking to Statin 'victims', trying to find out how they can recover from this drug, and how the drug has destroyed their health - NEEDLESSLY

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2/ This lengthy tweet is worth the effort, if it stops just one person going down the Statin route. It is from a dear friend that I got to know while I was on the FB Statins forum. He was 26 years old when prescribed the drug.

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3/This is his story: " 19 Years ago yesterday, Oct 11, 2002, I was admitted to UW Madison Hospital in an End-Stage Alzheimer's like state, I could not walk, could not speak coherently, could not feed myself, nor communicate the need to use the restroom, so I wet and soiled

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/4 myself for the next 4 weeks. I did not recognize my wife, my 2yr old son, my parents, siblings nor friends who came to visit. I had an MRI scan of my brain, showing multiple scattered lesions throughout the white matter of my brain, I had a brain biopsy revealing holes

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5/ in my brain which the doctors considered a spongiform encephalomyopathy, (Human variant of Mad Cow Disease), Electron Microscopy revealed the holes to be Neuronal Apoptosis (Programmed cell death), as well as Mitochondrial DNA mutation most closely

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6/ resembling Mitochondrial Encephalomyopathy with Lactic Acidosis and Stroke-Like Episodes (MELAS), the doctors prepared my wife and family for my death until I was evaluated by visiting Professor from Johns Hopkins who started me on a Mitochondrial Cocktail when within

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7/ 24 hours of my first dose, I began to be able to recognize my wife, and parents, I could verbalize the need to use the restroom, I was able to answer simple questions, and several days later I was discharged Nov 7 2002, with a diagnosis of "Viral Encephalitis"...I clung

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8/ on to that diagnosis because I knew Id be back to work in a few months...or so I thought. A few weeks after discharge, my wife and I were watching Good Morning America, and Diane Sawyer was interviewing Dr. Beatrice Golomb
of the UCSD and was discussing the Statin Effects

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9/ Study she was doing, and my wife asked me to enroll, to which I responded "I was a critical care RN, and "knew" everything there was to "know" about these drugs, but thanks to her persistence and power of persuasion, I called the University of California San Diego and

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10/ enrolled, had my medical records, including Brain and Muscle Biopsies, MRI scans, etc sent to UCSD. When the study had concluded about 1 year later, I received a phone call from Dr Golomb who informed me that I was one of several patients in her study with strikingly

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11/ similar courses of illness, similar biopsy findings etc and she proceeded to tell me she had referred our cases to Dr Doug Wallace PhD of the UC Irvine (whom she referred to as one of the top experts in mitochondrial Disease in the nation, who opined

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12/ that my use of LIPITOR was the CAUSAL contributor to the HOLES in my BRAIN, the mitochondrial Mutations, and the peripheral neuropathy. My heart sank as I thought of the hundreds if not thousands of patients I care for I had unknowingly given these drugs (Statins) to.

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13/ I fell into a deep depression (which I would never wish on anyone). And that's when I began to spend every spare moment I had into researching the pathophysiology behind this, only to find out we ALL have been suckered into what had undoubtedly become the biggest scam

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14/ in the history of the world...the "Lipid Hypothesis".
I told my wife many years ago, that I need to undo the wrongs I did, by doing everything I can to educate everyone as much as I can about the TRUTH, that Cholesterol DOES not, nor ever did cause heart disease.

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15/ So thank you everyone for putting up with my constant barrage of Statin/Cholesterol information"

I'd like to add that my friend has never fully recovered from Statin damage. However some "side effects' have been mitigated by stopping the drug sooner rather than later ....