Your Good Health: Red skin, muscle aches after taking statin

Dear Dr. Roach: I was treated for high cholesterol and triglycerides with a statin. But I developed red skin and intense muscle aches, so I had to stop taking it. I’ve read that people of Finnish descent cannot take statins.

A skin rash is not a common side effect of a statin, but it may be a reason not to take them. However, with a 16% risk of a heart attack, stroke or cardiac death in the next 10 years, treatment to reduce your risk is worth careful consideration. Another option is bempedoic acid, which works similarly to statins, but it does not have an increased risk of muscle aches and is chemically unrelated to statins. So, if your red skin was due to an allergy, your risk would be low with this medication.

Shingles, on the other hand, does not come about due to exposure, but due to a person’s immune system failing to keep the virus under control. This commonly happens as we get older, under times of high stress, or if something happens to our immune system . Shingles typically causes a rash on one side of the body and in a particular location, such as a stripe of the torso or a part of an arm or a leg.

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