Around April 2010 I started on Niaspan which is for high cholesterol. A few days later I started noticing some symptoms of neuropathy. I noticed my skin felt dry, itchy and sunburned. I thought it was side effect of drug. The worst symptoms of neuropathy started to appear in May. I had pain in abdomen and it hurt to sit.

I went to doctor and went on gabapentin. They all denied that niaspan had anything to do with neurapthy. I took myself off niaspan in July 2010. I must admit my symptoms have not got better.

Now I am due for physical and am afraid MD will want to put me back on cholesterol lowering drug. My LDL component of cholesterol was 195 which is very high.

So has anyone ever heard of connection between PN and a cholesterol lowering drug?