I put down a lot of my problems (memory loss, lack of concentration, huge problems with hip pain, leg pains, shoulder pain)-I thought it was all statins. I was never told about any side effects, and I never took the time to read the instructions. As of April 2010 all statins had to include extra side effects warning on memory and depression and sex drive.
Mine apparently wasn't statins-but fibromyalgia. I still have to see a neurologist (tomorrow) to see if it is proxiaml neuropathy ot other type of neuropathy). I'm still not convinced on any of this, I believe now that the combined effects of the human insulin and statins have crippled my brain and given me unbearable pain. But at the end of the day, nobody is ever going to listen, such as NICE, Drug Companies unless it can be proved. GP's and consultants get paid to give certain drugs to people. I don't think I will ever see in my life time a truthful answer about the drugs that we all have to take, I think the drug companies have a huge grip over the NHS.
I stopped taking statins on Christmas Day 2009, but my pains and brain etc have not improved. I am off glargine now, but my pains and brain have not improved.
I have reported my side effects as a listing on MHRA yellow card for every drug that I have managed to get off, because I believe that something chemical/medical has caused these reactions in my brain and pain, but I know that unless I and others do this, our future generations will go through all the pain without any gain, until the drug companies are forced to recognise that the chemicals from the drugs in our bodies are giving us problems.
I wish I could help and say that for definite that statins were the cause of my health problems, but I think all the chemicals going in to my blood stream are causing me problems.
I hope that you may find something that is a definite cause, and that you will take the time to report the side effects to the yellow card scheme on MHRA.