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No one, NO ONE, asked me about previous experience with statin drugs, before starting on...

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I have been physically active all of my life, playing sports from basketball, baseball,...

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I would simply ask this question, 'If the Cleveland Clinic Study from 2011 is correct in...

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http://www.ccjm.org/content/78/6/393.long The link above it to the Cleveland Clinic Study...

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Thanks for the input, Brooks. I will look at all the sites mentioned. What I fail to yet...

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Yes, iride, but who speaks for the patient? The drug companies stack the NIH with their...

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Thank you Bobby, as you obviously understand the problem. I was always active, playing...

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Indeed it is, but the numbers one sees when one Googles the subject, says that the various...

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Thanks Suki, I am on CoQ10 now, and also Vit D, but improvement is only slight so far. Quad...

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Statin Drug Induced Myopathy Case Study, Dec. 2012

I first experienced this problem in 1999-2000, after being on Zocor and Lipitor for 2 years,...

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I first experienced this problem in 1999-2000, after being on Zocor and Lipitor for 2 years, but could not find anything in the literature on the subject. I consulted with my family doc, and my son, also a family doc, and neither could give any advice on the condition or the relationship with the statins. I eventually refused to take any more of either drugs, and the problems went away completely and I fully recovered. Spring ahead 11 years to the fall of 2011, when I was given 5 arterial stents, and again put on statins, this time 80mg daily of pravastatin. After 4 months, my shoulder began to act up, and I had to give up physical activities (sports) that I both enjoyed and benefited from. Then at 11 months, while in my usual 3 times weekly cardiac therapy, my left quad muscle cramped to the point that I could no longer do the tread mill, as I had been doing 3 times a week up to that point in time. I consulted with my local cardiologist, and he suggested adding a fibrate, but I had to tell him that had already been tried and rejected due to bad blood test results from an earlier trial 5 years earlier. (Apparently, computer records from that earlier trial were missing, and not available, but I had paper records and the the Rx still in my possession, so knew what had been prescribed.) I then consulted with 2 family docs, my son and my own doc, and they both agreed that I should go off the pravastatin until something improved. My last dose of pravastatin was on 11/3/12, and it is now 12/6/12, and my problems are finally beginning to go away and my overall condition improve, but my left quad, the same one previously affected, is still very weakened and sore. I will be very reluctant to take more of these drugs, as I have now tried 3 different statins, and have bad results with all 3. I find it very upsetting that there is so little information apparently available to the medical community on this problem, and that the Standard of Care continues to blindly be this class of drugs, when there are so many obvious problems with the class overall. It seems to me, a non-medical educated individual, that the research on statins is more toward selling more drugs, than treating patients and providing answers to this obviously overlooked and under reported problem of Statin Drugs Induced Myopathy............IMHO.View Thread

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