Exhaustion

I had never felt exhaustion like this before, it was 2010 and one day I had to drive somewhere and I remember I had gone maybe a few blocks when utter exhaustion came over me.  I could not understand it.  Like waves on a beach it flowed over me.  Sometimes there, sometimes not, heck if I could figure out why.  Given my life at the time, my doctor decided I was depressed and needed medicated.  I passed on that idea, more meds I did not need.

It would come and go, in 2012 I got my first whack from the heart.
In 2013 second whack and two heart stents.
Last month third whack and one more heart stent.

And the exhaustion continues.  Sometimes now collapsing me for most of a day - up to 20 hours at a time!  Confusing.  Why should this be?  It was supposed to be caused by the three clogged arteries and two of them are now wide open.  And the exhaustion is as bad as ever.

So, I turned to the internet again and this time I started looking at each and every med I take with the word exhaustion attached to it.  BINGO!  A statin drug popped up as possibly being the culprit!  Add to that the years of tendon pain, spasms, joint pain, etc!  Most of what I have put up with for years appears to be related to statin drugs and not neuropathy - maybe.

The only reason I am even on a statin is that "everyone" with clogged arteries is on a statin due to cholesterol problems.  But, I do not have the problem, never have.  I hold the record for lowest test results ever (11 combined)!  I have only taken it for years to shut my doctor's whining up.  And now, today, will be day number one without taking it.

Yeah, the doctor will throw a fit I am sure but I will wait a month to tell him and see what my next blood test says ... :)