I've actually gotten into screaming matches with her telling her these statin medications are garbage (I'm a biochemist, so I do know a bit about this).
Change your diet and walk 3-4 times a week. It works and you're not filling your body with garbage or lining the pockets of pharma companies that push this sh*t.
Six months after a new hip I ride my bike an hour to an hour and a half almost daily. BP is now 100/70 resting, sometimes lower. I’m thinking about getting off BP medication now that I don’t have level 10 pain!
The cause is a lack of an enzyme to metabolize them.
The solution is to take a smaller dose until you don't have pain.
It takes 4 or 5 days to work the stuff out of your system to get down to zero ~ so be patient.
Now, about cheese ~ made out of milk ~ baby cows, baby goats, baby horses, baby yaks, baby mammals of any kind eat huge quantities of fat laden mother's milk. That milk has chemical equivalents of statins in it. If you eat lots of cheese you might get intramuscular pain. Eat less cheese.
If you take statins and get pain, and eat cheese with it, your time spent figuring out your safe dose will be longer.
My cholesterol levels ~ LDL and HDL ~ are super low. That condition is somewhat associated with the intramuscular pain problem.
BTW, eating grapefruit with statins will give you an overdose ~ so watch it.
My dad had to get a checkup for a job several years ago. They scared him about cholesterol and high BP and put him on Lipitor. I don’t think it was necessary. Tt’s not like he had any symptoms.