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Old 02-23-2012, 10:35 PM
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No one has mention the strength of the doses...How big of a dose (MG) create a problem 1 10 25 50 75 100 400?
That's a good question and I thought I'd Google it. But I quickly gave up. Too much medical jargon over my head. But this is interesting:
...many patients treated with statins have muscle symptoms, and some patients develop severe muscle toxicity. Little is known about the mechanism by which statin therapy leads to muscle toxicity. The recent withdrawal of cerivastatin from the U.S. market has highlighted both our ignorance and the need for postmarketing surveillance

Statin-Associated Myopathy with Normal Creatine Kinase Levels