I took a statin for 17 years and experienced a lot of leg muscle pain for all of those years. Despite this I religiously did as I was told and even tolerated the GPs stupid statements like "it's your age" (45 at the time), "it's your weight" (so how come the pain started when I started taking the tablets?) and my favourite "you exercise too much". It was because of the muscle pain that I started taking cocodomol, a questionable solution to the pain, but it made life easier.
It took a lot of research, carefully trying to avoid conspiracy theories and looking for the truth although anecdotally I was bumping into more and more people who were having problems. I finally dumped statins when my total cholesterol dropped to 3.5 after reducing my carbs. Total cholesterol is now 5.4 and although the powers that be might not like it, tough.
The fact that Merck Pharmaceutical were well aware of the muscle pain problem and knew that it was the prevention of the uptake of Co-enzyme Q10 being the cause way back in 1990 just made me angry, but at least it validated what I'd already discovered.
Now to the point, I still get muscle pain, not as bad, but it's still there. By coincidence I had some blood and urine tests a few months back (not GP, through my Nutritional Therapist) which showed that I lacked CoQ10.
Does anyone else still experience muscle pain and does anybody else know what their CoQ10 levels are? I wonder if the low CoQ10 is related to taking statins even though I have now stopped?