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by zamadatix 218 days ago
I recently went on a statin (atorvastatin) and found I have the WILDEST dreams of my life if I don't take them in the morning, and my doctor said my liver readings were elevated after use but not enough he wants to switch it yet. Which alternative statins should I be looking at, or do they have even harder side effects to deal with?
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I have intense anxiety attacks on atorvastatin. Rosuvastatin at the low dose (5mg) doesn’t do much, but at 10mg and 20mg it caused the same effects. It took years and multiple cycles of going on and off the drugs to become confident this was the problem. I switched to Repatha which doesn’t have this problem (it does make me a bit hungry though) but it’s expensive and it took a while for my insurance to approve it.