Muscle Pain

[Guest guest]

I have just recently been diagnosed with PA and now I am wondering if

the muscle pain, I have been thinking was being caused by the

cholesterol medication I was on, could be due to the PA. How can I

tell the difference? When my family doctor took me off of the

cholesterol medication I was taking, I thought that the muscle pain

got better, but it came back without the medication. (This was all

before I was diagnosed with PA.) He put me on another cholesterol

medication and I am now having knots and soreness in my muscles, but I

am still not sure it is the medication. Also, I will get places on my

body that feel like the skin is burned or something. No redness or

any physical signs except when I touch those areas, or my clothes rub

across them, they are very tender. It seems to be just the surface of

my skin. This has been going on for several years and it wasn't until

my muscles seemed to get painful and very tired while walking, or

doing other physical exercise, that I asked my family doctor about it

and he tried taking me off of the cholesterol medication. I am just

not sure what to think and what I should do as I don't see my

Rhuematologist until May. This disease has me totally baffled as I

don't know what is possibly caused by it or by something else. Any

advice would be truly appreciated.

Thanks,