[Margaret Pilkington]

My husband was on statins for a number of years, he started having memory problems and also muscle pains in his arms and chest......I told him that this was due to him being on Simvastatin(the cheapest of the statins, and also the one that needs a bigger dose to be effective).......the muscle weakness is permanent, nothing can be done to reverse the effects.......the memory loss, that too, seems to be permanent

Our brains need cholesterol to function normally, our muscles too, and our liver makes what our individual body needs........the 'one size fits all' medicine is fatally flawed.

For myself, I would never take statins....that is my choice.