Originally Posted by
Wanderer
Against my advice, my wife's doctor put her in statins for cholesteral control.
I had a severe reaction to statins a few years back, after taking them for a few years.
my wife was on statins for about 1.5 yrs.
A couple weeks back she started having muscle pain, and it got so bad, so quickly, that she could hardly get out of bed, and had extreme pain just walking. She stopped the statin, and called her doctor, who agreed.
she is now on vicodin, and heavy duty ibuprofin to make it possible to do anything. The pain is letting up very, very, slowly, but still cant function without the pain pills.........
this is a very, very, very, bad drug. Absolutely everyone I know who has been on them, developed a problem, some more severe than others.......
Ask your doctor if there is anything else you can take, before trying statins........... mho
The doctor should have done more than 'just agree'...
He should have seen her and run tests -- at least a CK to determine if it was myopathy...
... It is well accepted that muscle problems usually resolve quickly once the statin is stopped (at least that's what the drug companies tell us!). But, the danger is that your wife's pain is coming from something other than the statin.
I don't mean that as a defense of the statin. Just a caution to make sure you know what is going on....