This all occurred in a space of about six months after starting those damn statins. I could not figure out what was happening. There were other very strange symptoms I will not go into here.
At the end of the six months, I realized the symptoms had all begun after starting the statin, so against my doctor's objections and arguments of why it was "good for me tom keep taking it and there were no side effects to worry about", I took myself off the pill from hell. . . and gradually all those symptoms went away.
My doctor finally grudgingly agreed I had a "rare unusual sensitivity" to statins and put it in my record to NEVER prescribe or administer any statins to me.
I am now fully recovered from those symptoms and I can again open boxes with my thumb nails, but I had to wait for my nails to completely grow out from the quick.
Wow. We know our bodies better than doctors do and you proved it. Good for you.