Stopped taking statins

I'm a 52-year old male, quite fit and healthy (or so I thought) and had a heart attack about a year and a half ago. Not a particularly severe one, but a heart attack nonetheless. Two stents were placed in narrowed arteries. The docs put me on aspirin, a beta blocker, ticagrelor (anti-coagulant) and 20 mg of simvastatin. I didn't get a mega-bad reaction from the statins like some people have, but did experience some odd muscular aches and pains that I never used to get and I told the docs this when I returned to the hospital for the ongoing check ups. A year after my heart attack they dropped the ticacgrelor but switched me to a stronger statin and higher dose (Crestor 20mg) to get my cholesterol even lower. Meanwhile, I had been reading a lot of negative material about statins and also reports that the dangers of cholesterol have been hugely exaggerated - virtually a hoax in fact. Anyway, the Crestor didn't go down well with my system - lots of gurgling and groaning from the general area of my liver - and I decided to stop taking them. In two weeks' time I return to the hospital for my next follow up. Doubtless my cholesterol will have returned to levels similar to when I had my heart attack (around 6.5 overall) and they will tell me to go back on the statins. I intend to resist. From what I have read, cholesterol is unlikely to have had anything to do with my heart attack (much more likely it was caused by stress and sleep-related problems over the years). I wonder if anyone else has had a similar experience or is in a similar situation.

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