Statin discontinued due to neuropathy. What are some alternatives?

Hi. Good choice I think. Statins have bad side effects.
I’m a chronic pain patient, we lost most support and pain meds in 2016 so had to turn to natural and homeopathic choices.
Natural is herbs n vitamins/ minerals/ amino acids, etc. to control the issue. I’ve expanded to include Chinese medical herbs/ plants and other more ethnic items. All these things can be found on herbal or naturopathic sites. You might consider a naturopath Dr or DO who combines the two disciplines to help us stay healthy .
Homeopathic-is one or a combination of actual homeopathic remedies ( similar to using allergy shots to reduce the reaction). Items are plant or mineral based and there’s an actual certification and dilution procedure in place. I’m just learning this system. It’s not too complex to learn on general terms. To be well aquatinted, reading up on a website or book over a couple weeks in small chunks of time is fine. Over the course of various infections and using the internet holistic sites you can figure things out well.
This is also how I educated myself on my neuropathy symptoms. I take lots of supplements but I am finally starting to feel stronger.
Good Luck, sorry about the volumes I wrote but I’m sure it will help you too🙂

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.

Natural alternatives… Arterosil or Citrus Bergamot. Check out the reviews on Amazon.

0 was on low dose statin my new doctor took me off. He said stations were bad. He had me get Niacin ( vitamin B3) he said it would do same thing as a statin. One can get 500mg over the counter. It may cause feeling of face flushing

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.