Introduction: Myopathies can be caused by various drugs, including statins and corticosteroids, and can be toxic or inflammatory, one example being necrotizing myositis triggered by statins. Objectives: Describe the case of a patient with weakness after statin use. Design and setting: Case report Methods: Analysis of medical record, photographic record of the diagnostic methods and literature review. Case description: 69-year-old female, obese, hypertensive, diabetic, dyslipidemic and hypothyroid, taking atorvastatin since 2017, referred by endocrinology for generalized myalgia in 2019, with increased creatine phosphokinase (CPK). Discontinued statin use since then, maintaining symptoms. Neurological examination showed tetraparesis, with proximal predominance. Electroneuromyography (ENMG) showed signs of myopathy. Corticotherapy with deflazacort was initiated, with improvement of symptoms and reduction of CPK levels. Investigation for paraneoplastic syndrome was performed, with negative results. He started using pioglitazone, prescribed by endocrinology, with reduced corticotherapy, for better glycemic control, presenting worsening weakness, frequent falls, and dyspnea on effort. The patient repeated ENMG in one month, without changes. Performed an anti-HMG-CoA reductase autoantibody test, with a positive result, concluding the diagnosis of immune-mediated necrotizing myositis triggered by statins, with a probable toxic myopathy after use of pioglitazone. Azathioprine was introduced, with gradual weaning from corticosteroids, and physical therapy was started. Conclusion: Several medications can cause myopathy, directly (toxic) or indirectly (immune-mediated), and this patient used 3 potentially myopathy-causing drugs (atorvastatin, deflazacort, and pioglitazone). The nonimprovement upon medication withdrawal suggested an immune-mediated inflammatory cause, confirmed in this case by the determination of a specific autoantibody for statin-induced necrotizing myositis.