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Originally Posted by flowergirl2day
You don't get any muscle aches on Pravachol? I'll do some reading about it. It seems to me that everytime I mention the wonder drug (Lipitor) as a possible cause of my aches the doctor gets MAD and says they are caused by -what else?-anxiety. I even quit taking it once because of scary muscle/nerve coordination problems and was persuaded to go back on it by my nephrologist. That's why I am not sure I have the option of stopping it completely or switching to another drug (unless it is very effective in reducing cholesterol). Oh well. I am lucky I am not on a high dose, I guess.
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What about taking
CoQ10? As statins are infamous for causing muscle aches, especially in legs, so CoQ10 is famous to counter that. In fact, the aches might come about precisely because the statins deplete the CoQ10 from muscle. Aches are one thing, but what about when the damage occurs to cardiac muscle?
But a lot of mainline docs never tell their patients that. They instead switch from statin to statin, and sometimes that works - but sometimes it doesn't. Or, you can switch to a
fibrate like Lopid/gemfibrozol. Fibrates were the predecessors to statins.
Have you ever read the analysis of statin use based on the medical/statistical concept of
Number Needed To Treat? It's an eye opener. <removed> Summary: when you give statins to large number of people, by far the huge huge majority will have no benefit. At least 99/100 or as high as 249/250. So is the risk of side effects worth it to those who do not have really bad lipid profiles?
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