...I took simvastatin for over two years and I never connected the pain in my legs [thighs] with this medication until I saw links about it on the internet.....by this time I had muscle wastage.......saw my GP who said to stop taking them for a month and then try them again to see if thats what it was causing the pain.....I did, and two days back in I had horrendous pains in my back as well as legs, so bad I had to take a week off work.....so I thought I'd take my chances....
.....two years later my cholesterol reading was 6.9 and a GP at my surgery [different one] prescribed Avorstatin, he said to try them and stop if I have any pains as he looked at my history.......they're still sitting in the cupboard, cannot pluck up the courage to take them and I don't want to anyway...
...I've done quite a bit of research on the internet re statins and cholesterol over the last few years and from what I can gather as a layman, there is no higher incidence of heart attacks in people with higher cholesterol than there is in people with lower cholesterol. Our bodies produce cholesterol naturally and I wouldn't have thought our bodies naturally produce something that is harmful to us....even doctors are divided in their opinions on statins....
....I also wonder that if statins caused muscle wastage in my thighs, what have they done to the unseen muscles inside...?
...Sorry for the rant, statins are my bugbear, it annoys me that they're prescribed so lightly...