Good morning, Dick (@dickjoan)

Allow me also to welcome you to Connect! I think you'll find, as I did, this to be a most rewarding site.

I'm 80. I have idiopathic large-fiber neuropathy, so no pain but lots of balance problems. I was diagnosed in the summer of 2022, but once I knew why my balance was going all-wonky, I realized the onset of my problem had begun many yeas before, easily 10 years before, when I attributed my increasing wobbliness to age.

I applaud your walking 4-5 miles a day! In my book, that's astonishing. I used to be able to walk long distances, but no more.

For me, it's a combination of leg weakness (which I work on to improve) and shortness of breath (thanks not so much to my neuropathy but to a septic infection I had last year).

I, too, take atorvastatin, but only since last year (because of the septic infection). Only the other day I set a message to my primary doc asking if I would have to continue taking atorvastatin or could I one day be taken off of it. I haven't heard back from her yet.

As far as slowing neuropathy's progression, my only advice (based strictly on my own experience) is to keep moving (which it sounds like you already do). My life is largely sedentary, sitting at this laptop, but I've a kitchen timer just off the side of the laptop a-ticking away to remind to get up and move around every 25-30 minutes.

And as it is about to signal for my next git-up-and-move, I'll end this, again saying, Welcome to Connect!

Cheers!
Ray (@ray666)