Re: Those Texas Rio grapefruits

On Thu 01 Jan 2009 03:11:59p, sf told us...

On Thu, 01 Jan 2009 21:49:59 GMT, Wayne Boatwright
<wayneboatwright@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Thu 01 Jan 2009 12:56:03p, sf told us...

On Thu, 01 Jan 2009 04:12:13 GMT, Wayne Boatwright
<wayneboatwright@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I absolutely love grapefruit, and our neighbor has a 35 year old ruby
red grapefruit tree where I could freely take all that I wanted.

The downside is, grapefruit causes adverse and potentially dangerous
reactions with the statin drug I take for cholesterol. It's odd that of
all the citrus fruit available, grapefruit is the only one I can't eat.

I'm glad you mentioned it, I was going to ask you (or look it up -
gasp).

Yes, that applies to any statin drug. I'm not sure about other
formulations for lowering cholesterol.

Well, ruby reds are a flash in the pan - so I have to choke them down
all by myself while they're available. ;)

If I could, I would. <g>

I found an article that may interest you
http://cholesterol.about.com/od/statindrugs/a/grapefruitstat.htm

Are All Statins Affected?
So far, the only statins significantly affected by this interaction
are:

* atorvastatin (Lipitor®)
* lovastatin (Mevacor®)
* simvastatin (Zocor®)

Other statins do not seem to demonstrate the same, profound effect
with grapefruit as seen with the other statins. These would include:

* rosuvastatin (Crestor®)
* pravastatin (Pravachol ®)
* fluvastatin (Lescol ®)

Some scientists think that this may be due to the fact that these
statins are not broken down by the same enzymes.



Thanks, Barbara. Yes, that is very interesting, and I didn't know that.
Unfortunately for me, I had been taking simvastatin and am now currently
taking lovastatin. I'm still SOL. :-) I have taken rosuvastatin, but it
wasn't effective. It could be that by the way they work, the former group
is effective for me and the second group is not.

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Wayne Boatwright
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