Hi @naiviv
I never took that statin drug, but I took the Lipitor for 3 years without noticeable issues until the last 3 months I was on it, when it literally crippled me with pain in my right hip and low back. I was unable to put any weight on my right foot, and because I had been on it for so long no one was looking at the Lipitor. I was laying on the sofa feeling miserable and HEARD the warnings they read real fast at the end of the commercial, where it said that it can cause severe muscular pain. I had been using crutches for 3 weeks with repeated visits to my Primary and she was unable to determine what was causing all the pain. When I heard that commercial, I thought, "No possible way." I stopped it immediately and 3 days later the crutches were gone, but it took 4 months before the muscles got completely back to normal.
Something else we are not told is also in the commercials. Statin drugs destroy our body's own Co-Q-10, which protects the heart. I tried 2-3 different statins after I stopped the Lipitor, but to no avail. 12 years after starting to take them, without having any of that information about Co-Q-10 so I could supplement, I had a heart attack at 47. If you continue to use Statins, please look into supplementing Co-Q-10. I had been walking 4 miles or more a day since I was 28 and rode bicycles on 10-20 mile treks most weekends. I was in good shape, but I had a complete hysterectomy at 28, and as soon as that last ovary was removed -- they removed the uterus first, then the left ovary a month later and the right one a month after that. I went into the hospital and prior to surgery my cholesterol was 178, where it had been all along, but upon discharge it was 310 and that's where it stayed. Lipitor helped for about 4-6 months and then it went back up to 270 and that is where it remains over 45 years later.