[southblues]

Has there been anything linking statin drugs and MG? I know that I was on pravastatin when I first started having symptoms. The doctor that I went to told me to discontinue the drug thinking that I might be having a statin induced myositis. If it was caused by the statin drugs, did the companies know that it could cause it when they sold the drugs?

[alice md]

Originally Posted by southblues

Has there been anything linking statin drugs and MG? I know that I was on pravastatin when I first started having symptoms. The doctor that I went to told me to discontinue the drug thinking that I might be having a statin induced myositis. If it was caused by the statin drugs, did the companies know that it could cause it when they sold the drugs.

MG is a rare and hard to diagnose disease, so quite likely none of the patients in the short trials would be diagnosed with MG.
Muscle weakness and muscle pain are not rare with statin treatment (probably occur in 20% or more of the patients), so it is quite possible that some of those people have early signs of MG.

[southblues]

I wish that I had never seen a statin drug.

[pingpongman]

The first time I saw my Neuro-muscular the first thing he said was you are going off those Statin drugs. That was the last day I took one. He said they cause more damage than anything.
Mike

[southblues]

What is really bad if indeed they are responsible for my problem is that I was able to get my cholesterol down a lot with diet change.