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Atorvastatin/pravastatin

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anna73794
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I was prescribed pravastatin after a heart attack in my mid 40s. My doctor changed me to atorvastatin after 15 years as she thought leg cramps were caused by pravastatin. These weren't very troubling and remained the same. 18 months after starting atorvastatin I began to get a change in sensation in my feet. I read the patient leaflet which stated that peripheral neuropathy was a side effect - not common but listed. This didn't appear on the pravastatin leaflet. I asked to be put back on pravastatin which I was. Tge symptoms have remained but are no better or worse. I had a battery of tests including an MRI scan and nerve conduction tests and no cause could be found for the neuropathy. But I do wonder what the effect of lowering cholesterol is anyway, in the very long term - 19 years use of statins - when cholesterol is a component of the myelin sheath of nerve fibres which helps nerve conduction. Nobody will take this concern seriously and I wondered if anyone else had had anything similar.

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