Muscle pain can be a symptom of a serious problem. A certain percentage of people cannot take statins for this reason. I’ve been fortunate.
What is interesting is that my older brother took Crestor for 5 years and never had any side effects. He stopped taking them because he eventually demanded that his doctor give him a stress test(I think) to measure if he had any clogged arteries. The test showed nothing, so he stopped taking them. His wife was also a cardiac RN that worked at Georgetown University medical center. He works out regularly and drinks red wine daily.