My husband took statins for 16 years. Every year, he complained to his physician he was feeling weaker. He was told, he was getting old. Finally after an allergist checked his CK he saw a specialist, who suggested he get off the statins. She said, "I don't know what is happening, but the statins aren't helping." The drugs were stopped but it was too late. He landed in ICU on a ventilator. After 104 days, in 2 different ICU units and hundreds of tests and biopsy's. He was sent home with the ventilator to die. In 6 months, we sent the ventilator on to some other poor soul. He is back to work, driving and living a full but extremely weak life. No doctor will acknowledge it was a statin induced. No lawyer will touch us. No treatment is encouraged. It's now 3 years, statin free. He does not have high cholesterol. We move forward alone.