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The liver pathology is separate and distinct from the muscle pathology.

Yep, but the muscles ache due to the bloodstream accumulating toxins the impaired liver either dumps into the bloodstream or can no longer filter out.

At least that's my understanding.

"Doc, it hurts when I do this (take statins)."
"Well, don't do that!"

[neverdem]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed

myopathy and statins not hepatitis

That search strategy gets 1381 citations at Pubmed, i.e. muscle pain or weakness without liver damage.