I was on statins for a while. Numbness was the first side-effect I noticed. Then came the muscle soreness, memory loss, plummeting testosterone, skin issues... Doc said I'd die in 10 years without the statins and dummy me believed him; so I went through a long list of brands each one worse than the last. I finally told him that I'd rather die than continue with the side-effects. That was 12 years ago. I never did fully recover all the strength I lost in that year.