LONDON, ON — Are a patient's aches and pains truly related to the statin or are they the result of other causes? Differentiating statin-related myalgia from general muscle pain can be difficult, so a ...
Case: A 32-year-old female patient presents with muscle ‘aches and pains’ she has suffered for a year or so. She has seen a number of your primary care colleagues and says that, after an internet ...
Ruling out drug interactions, especially medications that inhibit intestinal and liver CYP enzymes, is a reasonable approach in order to determine the cause of statin myalgia. Simply lowering the dose ...