I was prescribed and started Avorstatin recently and quickly had side effects of and exacerbation of muscle pain, fatigue, cognition/vision/dizziness issues which were already present from some cardiac issues/meds. Would be interested in trying a different type (hydrophylic) statin as they are known to have less side effects, preferably rosuvastatin or pravastatin which I came upon partially from this article entitled...
"Take a lower dose""
- "A little statin is better than none, so try taking the lowest dose of a hydrophilic statin once a week. For example, start with rosuvastatin 2.5 mg on Mondays. If you can tolerate it, add 2.5 mg on Thursdays. If that doesn't bother you, add a third day. Another option is to stay on the twice-weekly schedule and raise the dose to 5 mg. By introducing statins slowly, 70% of statin intolerant patients end up being able to take a statin, 60% of them can take it every day, and 10% can take it three times a week, Dr. Cho says."

I haven't been able to get my cardiologist to start this yet but after quitting the statin on my own, I began taking 3000mg (2000mg is the minimum suggested dosage) of plant sterols/stanols which are fairly effective at reducing the bad cholesterol. It's my understanding that the stanols are better at this but it's hard to find stanols by themselves. Benecol is a stanol product that is put into buttery spreads and is also available in chews and a drink, which is the one I would prefer, but the drink is only available in Europe I believe, the chews are very expensive and a little hard to find and even the buttery spread is not available in stores in my area and I really don't use butters or margarines at all, so it's not a choice for me. What I'm using right now is a product called Cholest off which I got from my Costco and is made by Naturemade and widely available. Niacin in fairly large doses is proven to be effective but the niacin flush is too much for me. Likewise there are other supplements that are supposed to help such are garlic, etc.