Atorvastatin -- Could It Work For Anyone Else?
- Condition
- ME/CFS
- At worst
- Moderate (mostly housebound)
- Ill for
- 25 years
- Published
- Oct 2019
Summary
Atorvastatin, prescribed at 80mg daily after a stroke, was followed within a few days by a rapid change in this ME/CFS patient's fatigue. She had been moderately ill with ME/CFS since 1994, sleeping around 13 hours a day with a fatigue pattern that had not budged in years, when she started the statin in September 2019. She describes herself as "improving daily" afterward, though with new muscle fatigue in her legs from the increased activity. She was planning to reduce the dose given concern that 80mg was high, and the post gives no later update on whether the improvement was sustained at a lower dose.
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