And that good mate of mine, diagnosed with Diabetes type 2, prescribed statins wound up in dreadful pain (lower lumbar region), pissing tar coloured urine ,investigated for all sorts of other things like kidneystones, took action himself & threw the damned medication down the toilet. He has never felt better, looked better & has little to recommend the medical profession. Oh, he once worked as a Medical Sales Rep & knows the inducements offered to GP's by the pharmaceutical giants. we have to suffer this lot every six months & they have the power to wrongfully diagnose, wrongfully prescribe dangerous drugs & potentially wreck the professional careers of pilots. For my other mate, having passed his Class One Medical (enhanced requirement as he was over the age of 60), wound up in ICU with double kidney failure just weeks later. Oh, he died.