I started taking 10mg of simvastatin in April and experienced awful hand pain. The pain was mainly in the joints of my fingers, I thought I had arthritis. I stopped taking it and the pain subsided. I began the medication again last week to see if that was the reason I was in such pain and within a few days my hands are hurting and I can hardly hold anything in my fingers. When I told my Doctor about it she didn't take me seriously but she will at my next visit.