Shoulder Muscle Pain. Statins?

[CoachBrown]

Feeling like both shoulders are pulling with some pretty slight movement. Taking Crestor and Zetia.

Does anyone have any recommendations about dealing with the pain? I need the statins as I'm CABG x3 recently. Call is already into cardiologist.

[MichaelJH Heart Star]

You are on two different types of cholesterol lowering drugs:

Crestor is rosuvastatin and Zetia is ezetimibe which have different actions. Statins can cause muscle pain (I had shoulder and other pain with Simvastatin but a change to Atorvastatin resolved this). In addition statins can affect liver function. You should be having blood tests for these conditions.

However, the two drugs you mention can interact (this is very rare) to worsen these issues. I see you have a call into your cardiologist. Also try your GP as you need this checked sooner than later. If anything worsens ring 111. Good luck!

[sos007]

I had a triple bypass in March 2015 followed by 2 angioplasty procedures resulting in 4 stents.

I was prescribed Crestor and the usual cocktail of post-bypass drugs. Severe rotator cuff and frozen shoulder resulted following Crestor dosage increase in late 2015.

I conducted extensive research on statins, heart disease and cholesterol and decided I had to get off statins. In order to do so, I determined that I would have to radically change my diet and lifestyle, so I did just that. Over the following 10 months (until October 2016) I gradually reduced all of my medications, including statins as I continued to run blood tests every 6 weeks to monitor lipid levels as I changed my diet and began to exercise diligently.

At the end of October 2016 I stopped taking all meds, including statins, and have never looked back. My weight normalized, and I am now in the best shape of my life thanks to daily exercise and the Mediterranean Diet. Male age 53 at time of surgery.

You may wish to watch these videos:

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Good luck.