her cholesterol is under control from the lipitor, but her bone density is shit, her bones ache all the time and the side effects in the literature is present

I am supposed to take statins but I don't. My cholesterol is 3 times higher that a heart attack patient. I have been on an aspirin regimen for 25 years. Last nuclear stress test scan was at 55, nothing is sticking to the arteries. My pipes are clean. Ask your doc about the usefulness of taking this test before using statins. You get pumped full of radioactive meterial, get put on a treadmill until you start sucking air, then they take pictures. After a cool down period they take some more pictures.