@jlharsh
Thanks, Janell. I'm a really active, independent person, so to struggle to walk which seemed to come out of nowhere, really threw me. But I am grateful that I figured out a lot of stuff - especially the delivery of groceries. My cholesterol is actually not that bad and my doctor said that I didn't have to take anything. Apparently the way it is, I would have a 13% chance of a stroke but this pill could bring it down 10%, so he recommended it. He did mention that it could cause muscle aches and wanted to revisit it at the third month mark. I've been on it for 2 months now. He said that if there was a problem, he could switch me to something else, so I'm curious over what he'll say. The muscle aches can be explained by dog training and sleeping weird and have nothing to do with the statin but I just find it excessive to have back pain last for 7 days, just from sleeping weird. But who knows? I've been alternating hot and cold on my back, walking around a lot so that the muscles don't stiffen. It just hit me last night that the statin might be making regular minor pain worse. Thanks for your help. Living alone does have many challenges. A friend suggested I take a muscle relaxer but it can cause dizziness and no way do I want to be alone and dizzy. Oh, and I have a great doctor, so it'll be interesting to see what he says. Thanks for listening.