Reviving an old thread just to add my two cents:

I am off the Statins now, with my doc's approval and feeling 100% better. Using generic Lipitor recently gave me all kinds of bad aches and pains, like a very hard workout that you can't recover from. My cholesterol numbers aren't very bad at all, so to heck with it. YMMV etc. etc.

Ed. note: I had previously used generic Zocor occasionally without issues, but stopped using it because I was cycling so much. Then I got changed to generic Lipitor when Lipitor's patent ran out and decided to try and use it regularly. Seems to have been a big mistake. If I ever go back to statins it won't be Lipitor I don't think.