[John Rogers]

Well it has been over two months since I stopped taking Simvastatin after reading the article in the San Diego paper and seeing the main side effect was the unusual total lack of energy. This has been building for several years and this past winter my doctor had my heart stress tested, radioactive dye tested, sleep apnia study and could not find anything wrong in those areas. As a matter of fact my heart was better than those of most 50 year olds (I'm over 68) so we were still scratching our heads. It had gotten so bad that if I went to Costco to get some food that I would not be able to fully unload the car when I got back and would have to lay down!

So the main issue is high cholesterol and today I'll see the doc and get poked and prodded and the paperwork for my normal blood tests so we'll see what has happened to the levels. I told her that I was at the point of not being able to go on much longer but after stopping the meds the turn around has been so dramatic it is scary! Makes me almost want to get my 914-6 race car back from the Volkyland museum but the wife said NO!