These two sites are probably the most interesting. There's a lot of "kill the drug companies" sites too that it wouldn't matter if they were sugar pills, they'd find deadly side effects and report those!
http://www.statinanswers.com/effects.htm
http://www.medicinenet.com/statins/page2.htm#toce
The most worrisome complaints with any statin medication (and they are all similar) are muscle pains and memory loss. The nuisance category is nausea.
I can't take Crestor because of muscle pain (within a few days of taking it) and higher doses of Lipitor similarly. I'm currently taking 60 mg of Lipitor.
I suffer from absent minded forgetfulness, and I'm not sure if that's caused by the statin, but it's a real nuisance. But very few things are "permanently" forgotten, just as life before my walk through cardiology!!!
Nausea is minimized by taking it at night with something food/drink with a little "body" ... hot chocolate works well for me (just have to watch how strong I make it ... use far less than recommended! and it satisfies my chocoholism while keeping the fats down as much as I can.
