statin side-effects - (Atorvastatin 10 mgm)

Must be other ways as years ago people didnt have medicines like we have now.

Some find within in a matter of days or weeks they're back to their old selves, others take months or longer.

Please don't feel that as you haven't improved and you're still suffering that it can't be the statins, if you didn't have symptoms before taking statins and they began while on them it's almost 100% certain it's side effects so please bare with it as things will definitely improve.

It took me almost 7 months before I felt better, each month a different side effect subsided and now I'm feeling like my old self.

I want to get back to my normal self if possible.

Good for you, statins can give certain people severe side effects so you've made right decision.

I would like to add that following a low fat diet won't reduce your cholesterol much at all, it's a complete myth that eating fat raises cholesterol. Trans fats are bad for us as are vegetable oils and in particular low fat spreads etc.

Saturated fat is good so please add this to your diet.

If you want to try and help your cholesterol via diet then I suggest a low carb approach is best.

There's lots of info on internet on the above so please do your research rather than follows your doctors low fat diet.

Good luck

I've also been to see my doctor last week to get my blood results and my cholesterol is still high. I have told him I have stopped taking the pravastatin tablets because of the pains on my hips and aching muscles, and restless sleep. He offered to give me a different one and told him I don't want to because of the problems and I want to try by diet. He gave me a diet sheet and told me I have to do a lot of exercising and said he would refer me to a gym. I told I have never been to a gym in my life.

Does exercise really help.

I remember when I was very overweight over 10 years ago and when I went to the doctors and had my cholesterol checked, I did not have a high cholesterol it was normal. So what causes it, and I eat more healthy now than I did then; and only at the weekends I do indulge occasionally. My daughter has told her friend I eat too healthy. So I don't quiet understand why it is high.

Belgin

When you say you eat healthily what kind of diet do you mean? Is it low fat as this maybe where your problem lies.

I am 71 and have AF so I was put on Simvastatin with no apparent ill effects. Doctors were advised to take patients off Simvastatin when taking one of the medications for AF. He put me on Atorvastatin and doubled the dose in error. I suffered from lethargy, depression, headaches, breathlessness, exhaustion etc but no muscle pain with either of these statins. I told my doctor I was not happy with atorvastatin and he said to come off it for 2 weeks. After 2 or 3 days I had really bad muscle pain in my bottom and top of legs. The pain eased the next day but is still there all the time but it takes me ages to get walking in the morning and after sitting down for any length of time. I walked regularly before but now I feel like someone in their late 90s. I never had muscle pain before. Now every movement is an effort. Has anyone else had this? I have had this now for over a week. Does it end? I am beginning to think it won't. What dangerous drugs statins are.