continued RLS after stopping statin

[JAHMA]

As one post I read here said, many here may know and accept that statins can cause RLS. My PCP is sceptical of this and wondered why I still have RLS if I no longer take a statin. I was just wondering if anyone here found that stopping statins helped with RLS. Thanks!

[SueJohnson]

Everyone is different and can react differently to medicines including statins which is why your RLS may not have changed when you stopped them. And you probably have other things that are keeping your RLS going - other triggers, other medicines or OTC supplements or low ferritin. If you are interested in any of these I can tell you more.

[Munroist]

At least one person on the forum found that statins made their RLS worse and I’m reasonably sure there were others. They did post quite extensively about this and had identified alternatives for managing cholesterol. This is one post from them

healthunlocked.com/rlsuk/po...

[50568789]

I had always refused statins but when AF diagnosed, cardiologist and GP prescribed avorstatin as part of management plan. I felt this coincided with return of RLS, although with my cocktail of medications, who knows. Anyway, cholesterol levels ok so agreed with GP to reduce statin from 80mg to 40mg and keep an eye on it. At same time, switched around timings of some other medications and started on magnesium glycinate. RLS now crept back into its hole, but difficult to say what helped it on its way, one or all of these things combined. It's worked for me but maybe not everyone, but psychologically happy to be on less statin.

[BarnGir1]

Keeps gettingw more complicated. Frustrating to those of us just trying to find some relief.