Are you sure the muscle soreness is down to the statins & not the exercise, you do do a lot of hard workouts
I need to keep doing the squats in the morning as legs really ache now in the evening
Been up since 4 with a big mug of tea, ibuprofen, ice pack & hot water bottle
Long day at work today, son goes on holiday tomorrow so lots to get done
Enjoy your day
Oh yes soreness 100% down to statins.
Started taking them every other day this week, instead of daily, as an experiment and soreness went right down. Then started Coenzymeq10 that also helps.
Got an appointment with the doctor next week, to discuss reducing the dose and to check bloods in 3 months, see if we can get a minimal effective dose that is lower than this and reduce side effects.
They are a great drug for someone like me with very high LDL, total Cholesterol and Triglycerides that don't respond to diet and exercise + family history of men on my dad's side dropping like flies with cardiac events at about this age. I will have arterial plaque, but Rosuvastatin has been shown to stabilise that plaque, reduce cardiovascular inflammation. Stable plaque is essentially harmless. Very high levels of LDL, total Cholesterol and Triglycerides, the various ratios between them, are a marker for the LDL being carried in small diameter lipoproteins. These do the damage to the arteries. Reducing this number is good for me and even better is stabilising the liquid plaque that they have formed within the arteries. It is interesting stuff when you look in the details. Plaque doesn't block your arteries and cause the heart attack or stroke. It is in the medial layer of the artery wall. If it calcifies there it actually stabilises and won't cause a problem, the body has healed it. If it stays liquid and inflamed it can burst through the artery wall and that is what causes instant blood clots in the artery that break off and go get stuck in bad places like the heart and brain causing so much damage. People are fond of saying that LDL cholesterol is not the problem, but actually it depends, the levels of all the different lipids and their various ratios to each other tell the full story, + family history. To be honest most GPs don't get this, things are not communicated to them at that level of detail and they have so much breadth to deal with they can't go deep on it all. They get simplified guidelines. Statins probably are over prescribed, but the backlash is making some people in my category think they will not reduce any risk for them. Totally wrong, for them it is a wonder drug, for most others it will make no difference. If you add insulin resistance to the mix again it is really worth taking as that affects the way LDL interacts with blood vessels also. But perhaps, once you get that insulin resistance under control and if your lipid profile without statins is good, you can stop taking statins. It is interesting and complex. If you have any friends who are T2 and have high cholesterol and lipids let them know it is worth taking, especially Rosuvastatin, to lower CV incident risk. They can assess things again later if they get their insulin resistance under control.
LOL .. sorry .. long post got carried away!!
Have a lovely day .. hope the work isn't too busy today!