Re: pantethine and muscle ache?

Susan wrote: 
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Louise wrote:

about six months ago I stopped taking Crestor and began taking pantethine.I did this because I have fibromyalgia and I feared that the Crestor was worsening my muscle and tendon problems.

In the last month I have been experiencing a great deal of muscle and tendon pain and I am writing to check whether it is possible that the pantethine could be causing an increase in muscle and tendon pain much as the Crestor does?

I know this is probably simply a flareup of the fibromyalgia but I wanted to check and see if anyone has ever heard of a reaction like this to pantethine.


There is no such problem noted in the literature (and pantethine is NOT a statin, FTR, anymore than alpha lipoic acid is), but that doesn't matter to you if it may be causing your problem.

Maybe it would be a good idea to stop the pantethine, see if your FMS abates, then try it again and see if it starts up again. Sometimes doing this a few times is the best way to answer such a question.

I used to have severe FMS, and pantethine hasn't triggered it for me.

Susan 

thanks for your response.

Do you have any idea of how long I would have to stop the pantethine to get a valid sense of whether it is bothering me or not? The difficult thing about fibromyalgia is that it comes and goes anyway and so it's very hard to know if whatever you're testing really does or doesn't trigger it off.

Louise
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