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Chiming in as someone else who started experiencing severe muscle aches after starting statins and which resolved a couple weeks after I ceased taking them. Prior to experiencing them I hadn't known it was a possible side effect of the drug at all.

I need to go back on them (familial hypercholesterolemia, total cholesterol > 300), but I'm dreading it.

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This article is rather insulting. I've known too many people who have been bedridden due to these side effects. They take it knowing their cholesterol is high, so they great desire to see it work. Attributing it to nocebo effect is just plain obnoxious. Or maybe they are just shilling for pharmaceutical companies?

Did you try CoQ10 supplements? I added some after the first bout of muscle pain and it tempered it (not completely).

I second this. It helped me as well.

My doctor insisted on CoQ10 - Ubiquinol, not Ubiquinon if possible.

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