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agree...Not even a year on this junk and I've already stopped Rosuvastatin which has given me massive neuropathy/tingling/cramping/numbness and pain impacting my mobility and as an athlete they seem to just shrug, like, "well, you're 63, and you've gotta be on something as it's genetic, so let's try a diff one..." So they want to try me on Atorvastatin next...Grrrrrrr...I did find a ton of data on the web about statins and causal links to PN, and they seem to think it could be 'reversible' but I'm seeing ZERO evidence of same so far...and have been off it a couple weeks entirely awaiting a re-eval 6/6...I'll take my chances in the interim as the docs have pharma as their 'go to' by default and it's infuriating...Here's the write up from NIH on both drugs showing 50% and almost 20%...with NP...NOT insignificant numbers for such severe side effects! https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31582682/#:~:text=Neuropathy%20was%20observed%20in%20a,group%20(p%3D0.030).