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I have a friend 63yrs, smoker but general good health. Two times in last six months has had episodes of entire side of his body goes numb and some speech affected. Went to ER had blood,EKG and MRI. They cannot find anything. They ended up putting him on Lipitor even though his LDL and HDL in limits and T Cholesterol 172.