How blessed you and your partner are to be on the road to a full recovery. And also that you have the knowledge to pursue a nutrition plan at the same time along with the wonders of modern stroke medicine that corrected most health issues. Are you confident in the hospital and doctors now assigned? If your insurance covers it and there are other good specialists, a second opinion never hurts to review the treatment plan. But he now falls well within the new ACC treatment guidelines, the first category that even skeptics often agree with. It would be unlikely to find another neurologist whose practice guidelines (unless it was confirmed not caused by clots?) don't comply with:
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New guidelines from the American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association focus on four main groups of people who may be helped by statins:
People who already have cardiovascular disease.
This group includes people who have had heart attacks, strokes caused by blockages in a blood vessel, mini-strokes (transient ischemic attacks), peripheral artery disease, or prior surgery to open or replace coronary arteries.
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Your thread is now in general health, and any general news of interest regarding statins I put in the Cholestrol forum. Many threads on side effects there
http://forum.lowcarber.org/forumdisplay.php?f=48 and good to be aware of them to track, e.g. Muscle pain, Higher BG. Last night I received an email about a friend who had a stroke two weeks ago, so am interested in the treatment meds for stroke too.
In 2011, the Cochane group reviewed the evidence at that time and decided insufficient data to make any conclusions about statins and stroke.
http://www.cochrane.org/CD007551/ST...ischemic-stroke
This small study concluded there could be a benefit if patients IRL actually continued taking statins. Seems many stop taking it due to those side effects that the drug companies are good at downplaying and under-reporting.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20047571
A small study in 2009 of discharge records in Greece that indicate a benefit of statins in secondary prevention of stroke.
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/703444
2015 Prosper study also supports use.
http://circ.ahajournals.org/content...016183.abstract
Best wishes for a complete recovery.