Stations pain !

[Chrissy1953]

PMR or cholesterol medication. Confused!. Both causes pain in muscles. I've been the last year trying to work out which I've got

I had PMR and on reducing steroids for three years. Finally reduced to nil Sept 2019

Still had.muscle pain but manageable

Dr reduced statin but still pain , mainly in muscles back of thigh from bum to knees area. Slight shoulder pain.

Interesting though. I spent two weeks in hospital with a broken ankle and stomach investigation after I passed out with pain in stomach and the hospital took me off the stations and I had to review with my Dr.

Anyone managed to work out the difference

Even my Dr is not sure !

[Chrissy1953]

I'm sorry. Of course I meant STATINS!

[PMRpro Ambassador in reply to Chrissy1953]

My auto-type is stains ...

Did the muscle pain improve in the time you were off them? It sounds as if you are saying it did ...

[Chrissy1953 in reply to PMRpro]

It did help, mild pain still. Went back on them and pain worse. So I've stopped taking them. My problem is, I can't sit for long as the pain in my muscles at back of thighs is terrible. I spend most of my evening watching tv leaning on the back of a chair. So not sure if it's PMR or statin related. I suppose there's no easy way to know. Thought of asking Dr for a short course of Steroids to see if that helps.

[PMRpro Ambassador in reply to Chrissy1953]

I suspect that actually you may still have a very low activity of PMR and I would ask about trying pred. But obviously the statins may be the cause of the PMR - it is listed as a possible adverse effect and simvastatin is one of the worst. However, I'm pretty sure that rosuvastatin is also a culprit and there are anecdotal case reports.

acc.org/latest-in-cardiolog...

[Chrissy1953 in reply to PMRpro]

Thanks for the info. I'm going to talk to Dr about trying a short course of steroids. At least I should hopefully know one way or another

[Koalajane in reply to PMRpro]

I take atorvastatin and often wonder if they cause muscular pains

[PMRpro Ambassador in reply to Koalajane]

Atorvastatin nearly had me in a wheelchair in just over a week - at half dose!!!

[herdysheep in reply to PMRpro]

I am on my 3rd/4th week of atorvastatin and have just started to get some muscle pain which feels very different to the pmr pain. Manageable at the moment but will ditch the statin if it gets too bad,

[PMRpro Ambassador in reply to herdysheep]

Mine was weakness, exhaustion, could barely walk. It took months to get back to the state I'd been in just 2 weeks before. Really not willing to try another. Luckily the cardiologist agrees

[Bcol]

It took me four goes to get the Statin which worked for me, the first three gave me more pain than my OA but the fourth one Rosuvastatin gives me no problems at all. Been on then for a few years now, only a low dose 5mg/day.

[Chrissy1953 in reply to Bcol]

That's what my Dr prescribed Rosuvastatin 5mg. Was previously on simvastatin .

[Bcol in reply to Chrissy1953]

Perhaps one of the others would work.

[Bcol in reply to Bcol]

It was joints that hurt for me rather than muscles, so may be PMR related.