I hear that repeatedly. The link I posted above refers to a specific statin, not all. I’m not sure just how they are each different.

@vaniag
I experienced severe acute pancreatitus and was hospitalized for a week back in 2005. My attending physicians basically eliminated everything in my meds, diet, everything one at a time and the conclusion was that Lipitor must be the cause. So I stopped taking it and went looking for a more natural alternative and my research said that red yeast rice was working well for others with high cholesterol. So I hurried down to my local health food store and bought a bottle of red yeast rice capsules. Within a week my pancreatitus started up again but this time I was able to head it off before it got serious.
Now what? I just accepted that I was prone to high cholesterol and all the diet mods and exercise was all I could do. I didn't know that it could be hereditary and the alternatives to statins hadn't been available as of yet so I just accepted it not knowing for sure what caused the first attack until I dug into the backgrounds of statin drug development and there it was in black and white! Statin drugs are derived synthetically from the same basic chemicals found in red yeast rice!
Statin drug sensitivity confirmed.
Now I'm on Repatha and it's been a year with zero side effects so I guess I might be one of the lucky ones. Keeping my fingers crossed.
BTW, I had three stents last year before starting on Repatha due to calcium buildup on cholesterol plaque which resulted in a mild heart attack.