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I was put on statins three years ago and my skin started thinning, my fingernails started becoming extremely fragile (I used to be able to use my thumbnails for box cutters!), my gums started bleeding, and my teeth started getting loose. I started getting blooms and liver spots under my skin. . . and I could be looking at the backs of my hands and they'd start to bleed. I even lost a couple of fingernails. Others would split from front to back.

This all occurred in a space of about six months after starting those damn statins. I could not figure out what was happening. There were other very strange symptoms I will not go into here.

At the end of the six months, I realized the symptoms had all begun after starting the statin, so against my doctor's objections and arguments of why it was "good for me tom keep taking it and there were no side effects to worry about", I took myself off the pill from hell. . . and gradually all those symptoms went away.

My doctor finally grudgingly agreed I had a "rare unusual sensitivity" to statins and put it in my record to NEVER prescribe or administer any statins to me.

I am now fully recovered from those symptoms and I can again open boxes with my thumb nails, but I had to wait for my nails to completely grow out from the quick.