Originally Posted by
Gundo
I tried several statins and had similar joint and muscle pain. I finally started Pravaststin and have been able to tolerate it without debilitating symptoms. It lowered my cholesterol 100 points. It didn't stop a heart attack I had in May of this year though. I've been taking it for about a year and a half.
Statins don't prevent a cardiovascular event, just reduce the incidence. And cholesterol is a bad biomarker for cardiovascular events. Satins are great for a population were they are associated with about a 10% drop in mortality and a 30% drop in cardiovascular events . And yes, that is going from 7% risk of a cardiovascular event over a 10 year period to a 4.9% risk of a cardiovascular event in a 10 year period. But it is not easy to say on an individual level, who will truly benefit from a statin and who will not.