Tornado Alley (PROG)

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6 days ago i thought the only way i can find out if the statin is causing my terrible stiffness and muscle by joints pain is to stop taking them. 3 days ago i told my dr. enough. Didn't tell him i'd been off them for 3 days, but that i was feeling as lousy as he'd ever seen me. I really was then, still. In the past he'd listened and said, ok, still i'd like to continue on the same drug treatment a bit longer. This time he agreed to a trial stop and said see you in 6 months. He said he had had a couple of other patients in the some 3-5% badly affected by statin side effects. Bugger hadn't shared that before. I was on rosuvastatin (Crestor). Anyway, i could hardly pick anything off the floor. Too move abour at all. It hurt to sit on and get up from a chair. It was very bad for about 6 months.

I don't know how long he thought it would take for the side effects to go away, that is, IF statin was the problem. LOL, two days after i saw him i got out of bed and felt no pain . Could walk without hobbling. Amazing. It only took 5 days that terrible problem to virtually disappear. I'll drop him a note next time shopping trip up there.

A good statin story. 5 days of freedom and i haven't stopped celebrating. LOLOL

Muscle pain is the most common side effect caused by statin use. A 2014 assessment found that intolerance of statins is a real issue usually noted as muscle-related symptoms. It’s estimated that between 1 and 10 percent of muscle symptoms are related to statin use.
https://www.healthline.com/health/high-cholesterol/statins-list-of-common-types#side-effects

Very rarely, statins can cause life-threatening muscle damage called rhabdomyolysis (rab-doe-my-OL-ih-sis). Rhabdomyolysis can cause severe muscle pain, liver damage, kidney failure and death. The risk of very serious side effects is extremely low, and calculated in a few cases per million people taking statins. Rhabdomyolysis can occur when you take statins in combination with certain drugs or if you take a high dose of statins.
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/high-blood-cholesterol/in-depth/statin-side-effects/art-20046013

My cholesterol was way down as a result of taking the rosuvastatin, but it was never much too high in the first place. I checked with him and he said i was put on the tablets because bp was way up and because of my two mini-strokes, and subsequent discovering two small blockages. Not because of high cholesterol.

Eyes crossed the cholesterol behaves itself in the next 6 months.