Is Nystatin vaginal tablets okay?

[Guest guest]

I am wondering if using nystatin vaginal tablets 100,000 are okay to

use. I cannot get rid of a chronic yeast infection any other way. I

know it has been said that statin medications are not good to take. My

dr. said these tablets should be okay because they are not absorbed

systemically. Any thoughts on this would be appreciated. Carmen

[Guest guest]

Carmen,

" statin " drugs are referred to Cholesterol medication Lipitor, Pravachol,

Zocor etc. I know the name Nystatin sounds like a statin, but it is not.

Nystatin is an antibiotic/antifungal it has no relation to " statins " and you

should have no problem taking it.

Lora

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>Subject: Is Nystatin vaginal tablets okay?

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>I am wondering if using nystatin vaginal tablets 100,000 are okay to

>use. I cannot get rid of a chronic yeast infection any other way. I

>know it has been said that statin medications are not good to take. My

>dr. said these tablets should be okay because they are not absorbed

>systemically. Any thoughts on this would be appreciated. Carmen

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[Guest guest]

Yes, most if not all " statin " drugs that we should avoid are more

exactly called " HMG Co-A reductase inhibitors " . The compound names

of these cholesterol-lowering drugs tend to end in " statin " , but the

trade names generally do not. " Statin " is a term derived from the

suffix " -static " ; like in fungistatic (which Nystatin is)

http://www.drugs.com/PDR/Nystatin_Vaginal_Tablets__USP.html

or bacteriostatic:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacteriostatic

It's kind of beyond me why the cholesterol-lowering drugs have that

suffix, I suppose it is probably the chemists at Merck who first

patented this type of drug (with added CoQ10 noted in the patent by

the way).

This article abstract sums up the effect of statins on mitochondria,

in a normal population:

http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bsc/bjcp/1996/00000042/00000003/

art00417

also mentioned here:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?

cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=10337451&dopt=Abstract

An overview is here:

http://www.umm.edu/altmed/ConsDepletions/CholesterolLoweringMedication

sHMGCoAReductaseInhibitorscl.html

Unfortunately we start out with already messed up mitochondria, so

statins can just make things worse. I have several non-mito friends

who had severe mito disease-like symptoms when on " statins " like

Lipitor, so just that would make me stay away from " statins " .

Always better to ask, although the best thing is to ask your

pharmacist (you don't have to tell them why you care whether Nystatin

is a " statin " like Lipitor, they probably don't know a mitochondria

from an endoplasmic reticulum (that's a science joke)).

Take care,

RH

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> Carmen,

>

> " statin " drugs are referred to Cholesterol medication Lipitor,

Pravachol,

> Zocor etc. I know the name Nystatin sounds like a statin, but it

is not.

> Nystatin is an antibiotic/antifungal it has no relation

to " statins " and you

> should have no problem taking it.

>

> Lora

>

>

> >From: " goodnessriver "

> >Reply-To:

> >To:

> >Subject: Is Nystatin vaginal tablets okay?

> >Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 23:25:32 -0000

> >

> >I am wondering if using nystatin vaginal tablets 100,000 are okay

to

> >use. I cannot get rid of a chronic yeast infection any other way. I

> >know it has been said that statin medications are not good to

take. My

> >dr. said these tablets should be okay because they are not absorbed

> >systemically. Any thoughts on this would be appreciated. Carmen

> >

> >

> >

>

[Guest guest]

From: ohgminion

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Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 10:57 PM

Subject: Re: Is Nystatin vaginal tablets okay?

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Always better to ask, although the best thing is to ask your

pharmacist (you don't have to tell them why you care whether Nystatin

is a " statin " like Lipitor, they probably don't know a mitochondria

from an endoplasmic reticulum (that's a science joke)).

Take care,

RH

OK, I'll bite...what's the joke? Just guessing, are those two things the same?

Steve D.

[Guest guest]

No, but they both have membranes where " most of the action " occurs.

Endoplasmic reticulum are a bunch of folded membranes that in cross-

section (like in a diagram of a cell) look kind of like the christae

(folded inner membranes) of the mitochondria...

They are both important parts of the cell but do much different

things (ER makes (the ribosomes attached to the ER make proteins

actually) and moves proteins, mito, well you know, energy powerhouse

and all

Take care,

RH

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> From: ohgminion

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> Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 10:57 PM

> Subject: Re: Is Nystatin vaginal tablets okay?

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> Always better to ask, although the best thing is to ask your

> pharmacist (you don't have to tell them why you care whether

Nystatin

> is a " statin " like Lipitor, they probably don't know a

mitochondria

> from an endoplasmic reticulum (that's a science joke)).

>

> Take care,

> RH

>

> OK, I'll bite...what's the joke? Just guessing, are those two

things the same?

> Steve D.

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