Can't I stop taking statins for the rest of my life? There is no truth to this question. The purpose of taking statin drugs is to lower blood lipids, can I stop if my blood lipids are normal? It can be stopped, but the key is how to stop? Are you just stopping? Of course not, because your current normal blood lipid level is lowered by statin medications.
How do you stop? Listen to me, I took the statin medicine for a month, two months, three months, and then checked the blood lipids normally, and I want to stop. How to stop? Reduce the amount and cut it in half. Two ways to halve:
1. Break half of the medicine and eat half of it a day.
Clause. 2. Eat one piece every two days, isn't this all a reduction?
Eat for a month, two months, or three months to recheck blood lipids, if it is high, there is no choice but to eat back. If the blood lipids are still normal in this case, then reduce the dose, halve it again, until it is stable, and finally take one tablet every three days, and the blood lipids are still normal, I think the drug can be stopped in this case.
Under what circumstances should the drug not be stopped? It is the state I mentioned just now, once the blood lipids increase when I reduce the dose of statins, I am also very sorry, in this case, in terms of blood lipids themselves, it may be really impossible to stop blood lipid lowering drugs.