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To: Vendome

Just a layman’s hunch, here. Are you taking a cholesterol lowering medication? Something such as Lipitor or any other of the numerous ones out there? This happened to me. For over a year my hip hurt so bad that every step taken, or not (just sitting) would hurt with a sharp pain. Had to walk with a cane or, worse, a walker. They warn that these cause muscle pain to upper arms/shoulders, which was verified by friends who do suffer. NO ONE mentioned pains in other parts of the body. Stopped the specific medication - began taking Niacin instead. Amazing results. Have had no such pain since. Good luck to you. As Bette Davis once said... . “Old age ain’t no place for sissies.”


191 posted on 04/16/2015 12:18:01 AM PDT by V K Lee
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To: V K Lee

No. No Lipitor or that other one. My cholesterol is fine.

I am familiar with its effects, having taken care of a friend who usex it.

We found that by switching her to the other med and back to Lipitor every month, her body wouldn’t suffer.

Every 4 weeks changed em and she never had another problem

Funny, I thought my friend said “Old age ain’t for sisies” never knee it had an attribution


195 posted on 04/16/2015 12:24:08 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: V K Lee

YES!!! I get aches on every statin known to Man.

2 grams of Niacin a day for me!


211 posted on 04/16/2015 5:09:26 AM PDT by null and void (He who kills a tyrant (i.e. an usurper) to free his country is praised and rewarded ~ Thomas Aquinas)
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