Dear Nancy Rockwell,

I have been convinced for years that simvastatin triggered my husband's descent into Parkinson's disease. He was prescribed simvastatin for no good reason that I can see; stable cardiac condition, cholesterol not elevated at all. He was placed on this drug in about 2006. After one year on the drug, his cardiologist instructed him to add CoQ10 to his regimen "to protect against statin side effects". He continued on simvastatin with CoQ10 for another 3 years. In 2009 he retired from work, moved with me back to his home country, and started to develop a farm. He already had increased symptoms of memory loss and slow and jerky movements. In 2009 I asked him to stop the statin drug, and he did. His cardiologist had suggested prior to his retirement that he could stop it upon retirement.