From the day I started Simvastatin, my leg muscles deteriorated even while on a vigorous exercise regimen.
It got so bad that walking up stairs became worrisome, and I’m a physically fit 46 y.o. guy.
From the moment I stopped taking it, my leg muscles have improved. They’re back to being the solid tree trunks of old.
I may look for another statin, but man that last one had me worried.
Lipitor made me sick as a dog soon after I was put on it. Doctors put me on another drug they said was not a statin and I got worse on Gimfibrizol (sp?).
Gimbribrizol isn’t a statin but related to it. That’s where I lost my legs. I was at an excellent exercise level, too, and right after starting the Gim-etc I couldn’t walk twelve feet without sitting down due to exhuastion and pain.
Subsequently I’ve asked a lot of people about their experiences and every last one of them had trouble with statins. One fellow, on hearing my experience took himself off it and his liver problems went away.
By the way drs. prescribe this stuff you’d think they are making money on it as well.
Don’t go to another statin, they will all do that to your legs, I went through the same thing with two different statins. Quit while you still have your legs. Every now and then I get a bad moment of two with my legs but they are gradually getting better. I used to have the strongest legs of anyone I know but after statins that changed!