Fenofibrate/atorvistatin
I’m on a low dose of both: 54 mg and 10 mg respectively. I was not even aware that the statin had been slipped into one of my BP meds until a few days ago, when I saw the doc/ cardiologist instead of my usual NP that I see on a regular basis.
The doctor told me that he was considering bumping the statin up to 20 mg and eliminating the Fenofibrate, primarily due to the increased cardiovascular benefit.
When I started the two roughly two years ago, I began experiencing extremely painful myopathy in my right quad at night , like something was literally tearing the muscle fibers apart! Luckily, this only lasted about a month, but I sure don’t want it back. Which of these meds was likely the responsible culprit.
They have had the effect of lowering my trigs from 350 down to 146.