I had to come off simvastatin too, it was making my arms hurt. When I asked the locum who was taking me off them why I'd been taking them in the first place, she looked through my files and said there was no reason. Sometimes when I'm taking out insurance, the form asks if I've ever been prescribed statins, and I have to ring them up and explain that yes, I have, but only because the doctor had gone mad.
The winter wasn't really here today, a bit of rain, no snow, some wind. It was chilly, but I can cope, I've got three pairs of socks on (and one pair is double-thickness). I am just going outside and may be some time