Advice re coronary ct scan

[mystic]

I first found this forum last May searching for the cause of increasing aches and pains in my neck & left shoulder and in my right leg from hip to ankle ongoing since Sep 2005. The pain was so bad by May it felt like I was sawing off my own head when turning it to the left! My leg & ankle so sore, could barely walk three blocks. I'm a 71yo female - put on Lipitor-10mg in 2001. My average test results had been TC-258/HDL-90/LDL-157/TriG-101 over the period from 1992 to 2001. While on Lipitor my avg stats were reduced to TC-190/HDL-103/LDL-72/TriG-87 from 2001-2005.
After reading similar symptoms here, I suspected Lipitor might be the cause and weaned myself off from Jun-Sep. Also visited a chiropractor for adjustments which have helped enormously. I feel at least 50% better.
At my annual physical this week, I had the "conversation" with my doctor. In fact, after reviewing the above stats, he mused that he probably wouldn't have prescribed the Lipitor after all - Oy!
My first post-Lipitor lab results were TC-284/HDL-111/LDL-157/TriG-81 - which alarmed me at first, but figuring the ratios, seem to be OK.
Doc says to consider Lovastatin but wants me to have a coronary CT scan first to see the amount of deposits in my arteries before deciding what to do.
Has anyone here ever had this procedure and what do you advise?