Reviewer: 55-64 Female on Treatment for 2 to less than 5 years (Consumer)

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Taking for muscle issues with long term statin use. 200 mg daily helps reduce symptoms, just added 100 mg Ubiquinol to CoQ10 already used due to flare up of symptoms and getting side effects again of nausea, loss of appetite, caffeine-like nervousness. Will ride out or maybe separate doses. Does help muscle issues. Have developed thyroid nodules, benign, with no family history.

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Taking for muscle issues with long term statin use. 200 mg daily helps reduce symptoms, just added 100 mg Ubiquinol to CoQ10 already used due to flare up of symptoms and getting side effects again of nausea, loss of appetite, caffeine-like nervousness. Will ride out or maybe separate doses. Does help muscle issues. Have developed thyroid nodules, benign, with no family history.
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Reviewer: GeorgeBMac, 55-64 Male on Treatment for 1 to 6 months (Consumer)

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Well, not myopathy (muscle pain) -- but muscle weakness. While cycling I realized my strength was much reduced. After discovering that statins like the Crestor that I take reduce CoQ10 as part of the same process it used to reduce cholesterol -- and Coq10 is needed to produce the ATP that muscles use for their energy, I tried it. I saw an immediate and very significant increase in strength. ... Show Full Comment

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Well, not myopathy (muscle pain) -- but muscle weakness. While cycling I realized my strength was much reduced. After discovering that statins like the Crestor that I take reduce CoQ10 as part of the same process it used to reduce cholesterol -- and Coq10 is needed to produce the ATP that muscles use for their energy, I tried it. I saw an immediate and very significant increase in strength. Admittedly, if I had been sedentary, I probably would not have noticed a difference. There have been trials that proved this affect, but the medical community tends to ignore them. I started with 200mg once a day but found that the affect wore off. So I have been taking 200mg twice a day (using Jarrow's formula)
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Reviewer: Sara, 45-54 Female on Treatment for 1 to 6 months (Consumer)

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Prescribed 200mg/day for statin induced muscular pain. It did reduce some of the severity, but the longer I stayed on the simvastatin the more the simvastatin seemed to take over until the coq10 was no longer effective. Tried this with Pravastatin too... It only helped a little for a short time. It took weeks to reduce the muscle pain to a tolerable level after stopping the statin.

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Prescribed 200mg/day for statin induced muscular pain. It did reduce some of the severity, but the longer I stayed on the simvastatin the more the simvastatin seemed to take over until the coq10 was no longer effective. Tried this with Pravastatin too... It only helped a little for a short time. It took weeks to reduce the muscle pain to a tolerable level after stopping the statin.
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Reviewer: Melinda, 55-64 Female on Treatment for 2 to less than 5 years (Consumer)

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It has also helped lower my cholesterol an additional 40 points

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It has also helped lower my cholesterol an additional 40 points
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Reviewer: RATT DADDY, 55-64 Male on Treatment for less than 1 month (Consumer)

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I had been taking astorvastatin and started feeling muscle pain, associated with it. After a few days with Co Q-10 the muscle weakness or cramping feelings have subsided significantly.

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I had been taking astorvastatin and started feeling muscle pain, associated with it. After a few days with Co Q-10 the muscle weakness or cramping feelings have subsided significantly.
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