Having already suffered rhabdomyolysis from statin therapy should I take Antara?

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5 May 2010

You can try Antara. It is a different class of medicine to Statins so you shouldn't necessarily have the same sort of side effects. Sometimes however, you can have the same sort of side effects from fibrates which you experienced with Statins. Hope for the best.

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