Comments on: Statins and Rhabdomyolysis

By: Stephen

Stephen — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:52:50 +0000

Sorry about that…familial hypercholesteremia

By: Robb Wolf

Robb Wolf — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:29:45 +0000

Stephen-
what is fh? I’m blanking here.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:00:33 +0000

Hey Robb, great site!
I know this comment comes pretty late on this post so if I don’t receive a response I’ll just try again on a more recent and relevant post of yours. Ive been doing crossfit for the past few years and started low carb-paleo a few months ago. In light of the most recent information I’ve been gathering about statins (from reading your blog as well as others) I’m a bit torn. I have FH and have been on statins for the past 5 years now (I’m currently only 23). I’d love to get off them, but I’m unsure if the same advice given to others holds true for me and my condition as well. I’ve searched on other blogs for any information relating to FH, but it doesn’t seem the author’s were well versed enough to provide a response. Any advice? I appreciate it.

By: Robb Wolf

Robb Wolf — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:30:53 +0000

Interesting site! Yea, that’s fine and thanks for asking.

By: fandy

fandy — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:11:20 +0000

A very good article, by chance I was looking for this article. I also asked for permission, this article will I published in my blog and include links from this article .. thanks dude.. Rhabdo | Rhabdomyolysis

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By: Anneke Marvin

Anneke Marvin — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:09:30 +0000

Cool…mistakes are for learning from, so I’m glad that others will learn from my phenomenal f-up on this one. It was quite a while ago, but is still fresh in my mind with every new client I take on.

Thanks for the info on the other meds causing rhabdo. I had no idea…Definitely great stuff to know, esp for my Marine clients, who live on ibuprofen for everything from headaches to internal bleeding! lol

By: robbwolf

robbwolf — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:01:59 +0000

Anneke-
Thank you for this, I’m forwarding this to my trainers.

By: Anneke Marvin

Anneke Marvin — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 17:36:47 +0000

I know I’m a little late on the comments here, but I just discovered this forum thanks to my sister…

Anyway, I can attest to the fact that if you are training people, you DEFINITELY need to ask VERY specific questions. Don’t assume clients are going to voluntarily surrender all pertinent info. Sometimes it’s a case of them simply not knowing that the info is important to you as a trainer. This is why it is OUR job to pay attention to details and ask the right questions. I learned this the hard way, and I was very lucky the outcome was not worse.

I had a client, a 63 yo male, history of CV disease, quadruple bypass at 57,…on statins. He disclosed the fact that he was on statins when he began training with me, and I was aware of the risk of rhabdo. I asked if he was exercising already, and he said yes, he was biking and swimming…great, right? Well, I didn’t ask how much because I wrongly assumed that being older and a CV pt, he wasn’t going on epic rides. Turns out, he was biking 50-70miles at a time, and swimming for an hour at the pool. EVERYDAY.

The scary part is that we were doing mostly postural correction stuff,t wice a week for a half hour at a time, with very minimal load, and he ended up collapsing in the gym. Now, was it my workout that pushed him over the edge? Maybe. Maybe not. But either way, if he had died, I would’ve had to live with that forever. And potentially had a very costly lawsuit on my hands. A very scary lesson for me to learn. ASK QUESTIONS. LOTS OF QUESTIONS. If people don’t want to train with you because you are being too thorough, you probably aren’t going to get very far with them anyway!