Had to switch GPs because he repeatedly told me to start statins. I've always had 'high' cholesterol. Like since the first time I had blood work done when I was 7. No matter my diet, even my brief time as a vegetarian (very brief. i love vegatables, a lot, but I still want a big slab of rare beef right next to them).

My wife's aunt lost almost complete control of her muscles due to taking them. And that's not an "I think that's why" that was the diagnosis at the ER, they said it happens all the time.