Statins are often associated with side effects including nausea, headaches, dizziness, sleep disturbances, sexual dysfunction, fatigue, shortness of breath, memory loss, liver problems, muscle weakness, muscle pain, peripheral neuropathy and cardiomyopathy (heart muscle disease) due to a depletion of Coenzyme Q10. My ex neighbours mother ended up in a wheelchair taking a statin drug (lack of CoQ10 causing rhabdomyolysis- breakdown of ….