DB looks at why patients stop taking their statins. “Whether the statins were causing problems in these two otherwise health (sic) men is unclear. What is clear is that they believed that statins caused a decreased quality of life. They clearly put blame on the statin for feeling less well. Despite being very intelligent, and understanding that their cholesterol levels were greatly improved, they decided to stop the statins.”

I encounter the same thing every day – every little muscle ache is blamed on the statin. Lost is the fact that the statin probably has prevented instances of stroke or heart attack.

If someone on a statin complains of muscle aches (and the CK is not elevated), I typically switch them over to pravastatin – which has the lowest incidence of myopathy of all the statins.

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