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the very best of luck to your daughter in law with the statins. coq10i take 200mg daily to help with the muscle pains and they work for me in reducing the pain but not taking it away altogether .the new drug is on trial in the USA now so my Lipidologists tells me . it blocks the gene that...

the fluvastatin i was on was increased to 40mg per day and after 4 weeks the memory problems came back and so did the muscle pains so i am back on 20mgs per day now. and my memory is slowly returning. back to the drawing board again i think . i have tried all the statins there are with...

i think this is the last one tried all of them now.you have to keep trying no point in giving up just yet . when my wife gives up helping me then i will give up with the cholesterol battle . so untill then we soldier on . eva my short term memory is slowly coming back to me but i still have...

just a quick update for those that are interested .my lipidoligist as taken me off te crestor i was on because of the effect it was having on my memory. i am now trying fluvastain 20mg every other day to start with and still taking the co enzyme q10 100mg daily i still suffer from some muscle...

well 4 weeks in to taking crestor and the muscle pains in my shoulders and legs have returned i have another 4weeks before my appointment with my lipidologist . i was wondering weather to increase the co-cq10 to 200 mg per day to see if it made a difference .

Jake i have to try the cq10 for 2months with 5 mg of crestor + 10mg of ezetimibe then to be reviewed ,thank you for your post and the pm very informative.

well after a constant battle to lower my cholesterol level i was sent to see a lipidologist he recommended i take 100mg of cq10 for one week before i start to take 5mg of crestor (rosuvastatin ) once a week+ 10mg of ezetimibe. and a 20% reduction in my food intake to be reviewed after two...

well after reading this thread it makes me feel a lot better .I have most of the symptoms you mention but i always put it down to the statins i was taking .i drive a truck for a living and was forgetting places i had visited on a regular basis to the point were i had to buy a navigation...

Ross do you get any muscle pains from them. as all the other statins i have taken cripple me with muscle pains. the warfarin levels i can deal with so not to bothered about that side of it . thanks for the reply

visited my GP today about my cholesterol level which is 6.2 (that's my overall level ) he prescribed Fenofibrate and i was wondering if any one as taken these and what results they got either good or bad .please

you never know till you try it

i will post this again to so save ross reading my other post :D just a update on the tablets .have had to stop taking them because off muscle pains .so back to the doctors to see where we go next .

thank for the explanation Ross

just a update on the tablets .have had to stop taking them because off muscle pains .so back to the doctors to see where we go next .

i wll let you know. whats with the amway ? what is it , as it's nothing to do with the tablets i have :confused:

may be it's only available in the uk?. i will let you know what results i get long term,i start taking it today and have to go for a cholesterol test in 2 months

may be this will enlighten you ross :D http://admin.safescript.com/drugcgic.cgi/INGR?17588545+0

having stopped taking my statin drugs because of muscle pains my doctor as prescribed Bezafibrate any body else take them ? are they any good at lowering your cholesterol had my cholesterol tested on Monday and my bad cholesterol was 4 and the other one was 6

thanks Russell i wont be taking any more statins i have tried all of them now and they all give me muscle pain each time taking longer to get over the muscle pain .so im going to take yours and other posters advice and hopefully my aches and pains will disappear thanks jeff

thank you very much for posting the article very interesting reading .after 1 week on the paravastatin my shoulder pain are back so i have decided to try CoQ10 supplement,and policosanol, :)