Thanks
Very reassuring, since my husband just stopped taking it (vytorin) as of Monday. I was a bit worried, wondering if he should cut down first or if there was some sort of scary 'rebound' effect to worry about.
He's still taking the CO-Q10, and I'm just off to read up on the correct/optimal dosages. He just bought the Co-Q10 (after a few months on Lipitor and I'd heard about the need to supplement with Co-Q10) and took whatever it said on the bottle, without necessarily looking at the dose.
He's LC'ing, and has been struggling with quite a lot of pain in recent months.
The rheumatologist prescribed a very heavy dose of naproxen (500mg 2X a day), but he's trying to just take it as needed, after reading up on the scary side effects of that particular medication as well.
It would be a miracle if for some reason, stopping the statin helped reduce his pain - and I've just got a funny feeling about this b/c the increased pain has coincided with the introduction of statins, and even more so since switchover to vytorin.
Don't understand why the doc put him on vytorin in the first place - his total cholesterol was something like 209 - and yet ...doc said, "That's not low enough, you need to get below 200...want you to try this new drug" etc.
Bah!
Thanks for the reassurance