QUESTION: I started taking statins 30 years ago. After several years, I developed terrible muscle pain. Eventually we figured out why and I switched to another medication to control high cholesterol.

A supplement pill of CoQ10 may be the solution to a problem faced by some patients on statin drugs to lower cholesterol, in order to help eliminate one of the painful side effects of statins. Linda ...

Dear Doctor: Many doctors in my area recommend CoQ10 in conjunction with statin drugs to reduce or eliminate muscle pain. It has worked for my wife, and we have heard lots of anecdotal evidence from ...

Ruling out drug interactions, especially medications that inhibit intestinal and liver CYP enzymes, is a reasonable approach in order to determine the cause of statin myalgia. Simply lowering the dose ...

Frederick St. Goar, MD, is a board-certified cardiologist at El Camino Health in California, where he also serves as medical director of the hospital’s Norma Melchor Heart & Vascular Institute. A ...

Patients experiencing muscle symptoms from statin therapy can safely participate in moderate-intensity physical activity without fear it will exacerbate skeletal muscle injury or pain, according to ...

Statins rank among the most prescribed medications worldwide, with millions taking these cholesterol-lowering drugs daily to reduce their cardiovascular risk. While these medications effectively lower ...