@lazarian
Statin drugs have been around a long time now. Brand types have now gone to generic. I take Atorvastatin. This was prescribed to me by both cardiologist and heart failure specialist at Mayo Clinic.

I take 40 mg of it each night. If you are being prescribed 20 mg then your plaque probably is not very bad and/or not expected to get much worse. I think 40 mg is highest recommended dose (but not sure). I was actually prescribed 35 mg. but it comes in 40 mg tablet so they raised it to 40 for convience.

Have you been told to take Co-Q-10 with the statin? The research and finding have discovered that taking a statin can reduce Co-Q-10 in body and cause muscle soreness. Thus I take Co-Q-10 recommended again by my heart failure and cardiolgist at Mayo of 200 mg.

You will read in MCC a lot of discussion on Co-Q-10 and taking Ubiquinol instead. This is because Ubiquinol is much more highly absorbed by body than regular Co-Q-10.