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Ask the doctor: My muscles ache - are heart pills to blame?
(Daily Mail 13/01/2009)
I'm 69 and have had a muscular groin problem for a long time. One doctor said it was a sprain, like footballers get, but a scan proved negative. Then I read about 80mg doses of statin drugs causing muscular problems. Every night for more than a year I have taken an 80mg Atorvastatin tablet. While my doctor was on holiday I took just half the pill, and in three weeks my groin pain cleared up.
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