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In response, I too have osteo necrosis in my right wrist. It also

appears there is necrosis in a spinal joint. The wrist problem began

over a year ago. I quit Zocor in May 2004. Since then the joint has

becoming arthritic, but pain is very much less and no further damage

there has occured. Where is your osteonecrosis. I know it happens

most often in the hip joint. I just had hip xrays and my hip joints

are okay. I just can barely walk due to the spinal problem. Pain is

terrific.

> I have only recently joined the group and should introduce myself.

I am

> /Liz and live in Scotland in the UK. In April 2000 I was

> prescribed the statin called Lipobay (cerivastatin) and soon

afterwards

> experienced severe muscle pain and spasm. Doctors dismissed any

association

> with the statin. A year later Bayer withdrew this statin, due to

muscle

> problems. Another doctor did think the statin was the cause of my

muscle

> problems and advised me to stop it, which I did after 6 months.

But muscle

> problems have prevailed.

>

> Does anyone else still have muscle problems long after stopping a

statin

> drug?

>

> In a post today I read about a Dr Beatrice Golomb. Could someone

give me

> the URL for her website as I gather she comments on side effects?

>

> I also developed a bone condition called avascular necrosis or

osteonecrosis

> (AVN/ON) cause by interuption of blood supply to the bone causing

bone

> death. If statins can damage muscle cells, I wonder if they might

also

> damage bone cells....

>

> This is my first contact with anyone who has taken statins. When I

first

> searched the internet in 2000 I found very little about statin side

effects

> and no groups such as this. Only after Bayer withdrew cerivastatin

did

> articles on side effects begin to appear.

>

> Thanking you in advance for any response.

>

> Liz ~ Scotland. UK