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It sucks, but to put this in perspective, out of 20,000 patients taking it daily for 2 years, muscle weakness was reported in 0.18%. That's 1 in 555. The majority of those were mild. not affecting physical function at all. Some of those reports were undoubtedly imagined side effects, which are especially common with statins. Your crippling reaction must be 1 in several thousand or less.

Pitavastatin doesn't enter muscles like other statins, and its doses are minuscule by comparison, which is why it has such a low rate of side effects.

Hope Repatha works out for you. Even without statin, combined with Eze you'll still get 60-70% reduction.

Absolutely. No one reading my experience should not try Pitavastatin. It's definitely the best option for most people by far. I knew about the muscle pain being a possible unwanted effect, but I wasn't aware it could cause joint pain. I actually dealt with the worsening knee pain for about a week before I thought to check if pitavastatin could cause joint pain, so I don't believe it could have been nocebo. I also had a relatively rare side effect from telmisartan, but that resolved itself and I'm still taking it now with no issues. (other than it not touching my systolic @40mg combined with 20mg cilnidipine and 10mg nebivolol :confused:)
 
We probably already talked about this but what is your NPP dose. I'm a few weeks into 50mg of Deca hoping to get some joint relief.
I know feels isn't extremely scientific, but other than this one very minor "study", the nand/joint pain thing is largely anecdotal anyway, so fuck it. I'm down to ~7/day and the creaks and grinds haven't returned.

 
Cost Plus is much better than retail with a coupon. I’m paying $150/90 days of 4 mg with coupon. And it’s generic. And it required a pre authorization which I skipped. Will ask the doc to do the PA to see if it gets covered.
 
Cost Plus is much better than retail with a coupon. I’m paying $150/90 days of 4 mg with coupon. And it’s generic. And it required a pre authorization which I skipped. Will ask the doc to do the PA to see if it gets covered.
That’s also terrible. TelyRX now sells 4mg Pita, 90 day supply for $150.
 
That’s pretty sad. TriCare (Express Scripts) still requires a PA for generic and if approved it costs $76 for a one month supply. I’ll just ask my Doc for a script and get it from CostPlus.

Commercial plans using ExpressScripts don't require preauthorization any more (Pita reclassified as a Tier 1 preferred drug). But limited to 30 pills at a time.

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The DOD doesn't seem to realize there's a cheap generic available, since the preauthorization form only mentions the 2 brand name ($$$) versions. Hopefully that will change with the next formulary update coming out in a month or so.

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Commercial plans using ExpressScripts don't require preauthorization any more (Pita reclassified as a Tier 1 preferred drug). But limited to 30 pills at a time.

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The DOD doesn't seem to realize there's a cheap generic available, since the preauthorization form only mentions the 2 brand name ($$$) versions. Hopefully that will change with the next formulary update coming out in a month or so.

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The online formulary has brand name and generic. Both require a PA.


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