I am a 68 year old retired engineer. When I was in my early 40s my primary care physician put me on a low dose of a statin drug because of my slightly above normal LDL cholesterol level. I had no heart problems nor any family history of heart issues. I was a very active person; running, swimming, biking and going to the local gym often. Some years into this treatment, I experienced muscle aches and pains that affected different areas of my body. I initially attributed these changes to middle age, but the pains persisted and worsened to the point of significantly impacting my quality of life. I also had ever increasing blood sugar levels despite my physical activity and normal weight.
Today I struggle with activities of daily living and have to work to get in a short walk every day. During all of this, my prescribing doctor denied that my pains were due to statin exposure and I actually underwent two surgeries for lower back and leg pain (due to symptoms that were, in my view, exacerbated by statins)
After doing my own research, I took myself off of the statin drug in 2014. By then it had been 15 years and the damage had been done. Needless to say, I have also changed doctors and have a confirmed diagnosis of statin-induced myopathy based on a muscle biopsy. The high blood sugar developed into diabetes.
I decided to put together this website so I can share my experience and the results of my findings in the hope that it will help others. I quite often get asked about my condition and thought this would be a good vehicle to summarize the information that I have gleaned over the last several years.
Comments are welcome!
Phil Dellin
@statinvictim on twitter
pdellin@comcast.net via email
PS: I am not a medical doctor and am not offering medical advice. Do your own research and consider this website a place to find materials that may be of use to you.
Here are links to the following pages of my website:
- The scope of this website
- More on my personal saga
- Some useful medical tests
- My muscle biopsy summary
- Numerous useful resources
- Statin damage treatment thoughts
- My “business card“
- IVIG treatment – a friend’s story
- My own IVIG treatment in 2017
- Open letter to Journalists
- Relative Risk Deception – Explained
Each page has a link back to this Welcome page.
Note: There is a separate independent website, unaffiliated with me, used to gather statins side effect accounts. Make sure you type the trailing “s” of statinvictims for that website.