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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR LIPITOR | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | cholesterol | Pain in all my muscles and joints and bottom of feet. Has continued for 3 years to date. | NEVER, NEVER NEVER use it or any other statin. | F | 67 | 30mg 1X day | 9/12/2010 | 1 | high cholesterol | Severe shoulder and upper body pain including tendonitis. Was in PT for 7 months. No relief from any pain pills. Ice gave some relief. Fatigued and worse pain by end of day. Worse when changed to Pravachol- this made all joints, muscles and tendons hurt all over my body- that's how I learned it was the statins causing my problem- doctor still doesn't believe me. It doesn't instantly improve with stopping the meds either, even though doctors may say it will after 1 month. It takes at least 3+ months for the drug to get out of your system according to pharmacists- but you still may have pain that continues after that. I recommend the website spacedoc.net for lots of info, reccommended supplements, and help on this. Recently discovered that completely avoiding all caffeine and alchohol and just drinking water durring the day helps the pain, fatigue and weakness diminish significantly. Also, warm showers help as does walking (if your legs don't hurt). | F | 46 | 10 years 10 mg 1X day | 9/6/2010 | 1 | High Cholesterol | Neuronal Apoptosis (Brain Cell Death) as evidenced on MRI scan, and confirmed by brain biopsy with electron microscopy, Mitochondrial DNA mutations, similar to that of MELAS, Mitochondrial Encephalomyopathy with Lactic Acidosis and Stroke-like episodes. Evidenced by Brain Biopsy w/ Electron Microscopy, as well as Serial Lactic Acid levels consitently well above normal range, as well as a Muscle Biopsy studied under Electron Microscopy. I was 34 years old when I was hospitalized for nearly 1 month, leaving me permanently and totally disabled. I was a critical care Registered Nurse for the prior 12 years. I loved my job and have only 1 regret, that I ever "educated" people on the dangers of High Cholesterol, and convinced them to take these poisons. | Cholesterol has very little to do with heart disease, and ALL statins are toxic. See www.spacedoc.net A site by a former family physician/NASA flight surgeon, disabled by his use of Lipitor. If you want more proof, email me [email protected] I have a ton of it. I want to educate people as to the REAL cause of heart disease. | M | 42 | 3.5 years 10 1X day | 9/3/2010 | 1 | Cholesterol | I have not clinically proved my theory "yet", but I strongly believe that taking Lipitor for 4 years ended up giving me Multiple Sclerosis. I am a 37 yr old male, I was diagnosed with MS two months ago. My cholesterol was it's highest at 212 when my GP prescribed the drug. My total cholesterol while on it got down to 130 ish. This is too low in my opinion and my body began attacking my CNS and now have to live with this. Again, this has not yet proven, nor have i gone down that road yet.... | Big Pharma wants to promote the use of statins to treat MS, when I stopped taking mine (Jan 2010)that is when my symptoms became present?? I may have been the human rat in that theory. To make matters even worse, the therapy my neurologist wants to put me on, just so happens to be the same company that mfg.'s Lipitor....hmmm! | M | 37 | 4 years 10mg 1X day | 8/24/2010 | 1 | high cholesterol | Soon after starting Lipitor I developed extreme pain in both inner arms at the elbows, over the next years I developed inflammed ligaments and bursae in my shoulders and ankles. Also Nerve pain in shoulders, ankles and feet. Finally extreme burning of shoulders and ankles. I was started on Liptor 20 mg 7 years ago. It was increased to 40 mg. 3 years ago. The pain increased proportionately to the time I was on the drug and the dose increase. Neither my doctors nor I ever related these pains to Lipitor. I stopped Lipitor six months ago as an experiment. Within 3 weeks I had recovered about 50%. I hve not recovered past this point. I still can't walk without extreme pain. I have to wear ankle supports, night splints, ice compresses frequently, gel pads, elevated heels. My shoulders are doing better than my ankles and feet, but they still hurt. My GP and the surgeon who says I now need surgery on both ankles for the inflammed bursae are reluctant to connect my pain and disability | My GP still wants me on statins. She is annoyed that I will not take any. I am taking Red Yeast Rice with COQ10 now instead of a statin along with 2000 mg of Vitamin C daily. Basically Lipitor has ruined my formerly active life. No more dancing, golf, hiking, even standing too long sets my ankles on fire. I will have my cholesterol rechecked in September to see if the Red Yeast Rice helps my elevated cholesterol. I was never warned that any of the symptoms I have experienced were in any way related to Lipitor. | F | 62 | 6 years 1X day | 8/4/2010 | 1 | High Cholesterol | I started taking Lipitor in Dec 2009. Experienced some leg muscle discomfort, but went away within a few weeks. In June, I ran out of my prescription, was busy, forgetful, stupid and didn't request a refill until about 2 weeks later. It took another week to get the prescription because I had switched doctors and the pharmacy didn't follow up. Anyway, after 3 weeks or so of not taking Lipitor, I started it again. Now a week later, I feel like I've been run over by a truck. I started having extreme muscle discomfort, achiness, cramps. I assumed it was due to my half-marathon training. I ran five miles last Saturday and expected to be sore for a day. But it has continued and gotten worse each day. I also started have muscle aches in my neck and shoulders and lower back. I couldn't figure out why. I also have felt extremely fatigued and people are telling me I look really tired and asking if I'm ok. I feel like I'm in a fog and it's a chore to just walk around. Last night right | F | 49 | 7 months 20MG 1X day | 7/8/2010 | 1 | Hyperlipidemia | Cramps in my feet, pain in the lower part of my knees, fatigue, mental fog. | During the three years that I was taking Lipitor, my cholesterol averaged as follows (n = 5) all units mg/dL: Total Cholesterol - 140 HDL - 38 LDL - 74 Triglycerides - 139 Total/HDL Ratio - 3.67 After stopping Lipitor and all other statins in 2010: Total Cholesterol - 218 HDL - 34 LDL - 184 Triglycerides - 167 Total/HDL ratio - 6.4 After switching to 10 mg Simvistatin: Total Cholesterol - 136 HDL - 38 LDL - 70 Triglycerides - 138 Total/HDL ratio - 3.58 I take 1/2 of a 20 mg generic Simvistatin pill daily. Very little side effects, cheaper, and does the same job as Lipitor. | M | 49 | 3 years 10 1X day | 6/18/2010 | 1 | abnormal lipid profile | I am a physician. I have been on simvastatin, pravastatin, and now atorvastatin. My joint pains are severe and I have developed a dys-motility, irritable bowel syndrome of the sigmoid area and descending colon with obstipation and constipation that is very bothersome. Cannot take statins and I agree with most other comments of patients on fatigue and joint pain and short term memory dysfunction. | 60 | 5 years 1X day | 6/1/2010 | 1 | high colesterol | At the beginning I did not had any side effects, until a few months after start taking Lipitor I experienced pain in the lower legs, sometimes I could not even walk in the mornings my muscles were very stiff. After consulting with my doctor he told me to stop taking Lipitor until the pain went away and to start taking it after the pain was gone. I followed the doctor's order. After a few more months of taking Lipitor I began to develop severe pain in the muscles in the shoulder area, upper back and neck, the pain and stiffness of my neck was so bad that sometimes I couldn't even turn my head when I was driving. I went to my doctor and she thought it was stress. I took off work for a month and during this time I tried to relax and the pain did not go away. I decided to be off Lipitor on my own and within a couple of weeks, the pain and stiffness from the neck and pain in the shoulder and back is going away, I feel much better now that I am not taking Lipitor. | I do not think I will take Lipitor ever again, the problems that have been causing me are too much to risk my health again. I will look for alternatives ways of reducing my collesterol. | F | 61 | 2 years 20mg 1X day | 5/21/2010 | 1 | High Cholesterol | I started taking Lipitor in December 2009 and stopped after 4 months. During this time I experienced extreme pain in both shoulders, sometimes in the neck also, causing me to wake several times each night. Pain was worse in the morning but rarely went away completely during the day. Most mornings it was impossible to wash my hair in the shower as I was unable to reach the top of my head with my hands. Pain and restricted movement often prevented me from putting on shoes and socks without assistance. In January this year I started experiencing discomfort in my left hand for the first time. Now in both hands, the pain has increased, fingers are swollen and movement is restricted. My wife tells me my hands are warm to touch. The mornings are worse when they hurt the most, movement is restricted and it is impossible to make a fist. Ice and ibruprofen gel help but only for a short while. I have been taking 400 mg Ibruprofen 3 times daily for a couple of weeks on my doctors advice without | This drug is clearly POISON to so many people and perhaps there is good reason to take Pfizer to the courts. However I do believe that any Doctor prescribing Lipitor should make it abundantly clear to the patient that very serious consequences could ensue that would cause extreme pain and could effect quality of life. I believe that failure to do so is a serious deriliction of duty that should be tested with complaints to the medical authorities that oversee our doctors and/or the courts. | M | 66 | 4 months 20 MG 1X day | 5/9/2010 | 1 | moderately high cholesterol | Sudden onset of extreme weakness and fatigue. I got up one morning and could barely walk across the room. I stopped taking the drug and the symptoms disappeared | F | 67 | 1 weeks 10 MG 1X day | 4/21/2010 | 1 | High Cholesterol/Triglygerides | Muscle pain, leg cramps, fatigue, irritable, pain in feet, neuropathy | I have stopped this medication a couple of times and my doctor keeps insisting I take it, rather then alternative medications. I'm getting off of this stuff after reading so many people are having similiar side-effects. Doctors need this information! | F | 68 | 3 years 1X day | 4/19/2010 | 1 | high cholesterol | pain all over my body. aches and overall misery | M | 59 | 6 months 30 mg 2X day | 3/31/2010 | 1 | slightly elevated levels | stiff upper leg, quad area.some chest pain left side.not for me.called my pharma said usualy these side effects in 1-2 weeks. | M | 41 | 2 days 10 mg 1X day | 3/26/2010 | 1 | High cholesterol | muscle pain, fatigue, swollen tongue | Was on Simvastatin for 1 year with slight decrease in ratio, then Inergy with increasing skin itchiness after 8 weeks, then Lipitor for 24 days. | M | 52 | 24 days 40 MG 1X day | 3/9/2010 | 1 | slightly high cholesterol | impotence | M | 48 | 1 years | 1/24/2010 | 1 | HIgh Cholesterol | Pain in joints and muscles, including knees, ankles feet wrist shoulders and elbows. Unable to even climb 1 flight of stairs. Weight gain (due to no activity from pain?) Headaches, fatigue, confusion and memory loss. Uncontrollable gas and diarrhea as well as a burning in my stomach. | Dr. never mentioned stopping medication. Just physical therapy and pain medication. | F | 48 | 14 months | 1/15/2010 | 1 | high cholesterol | Aches and pains, breathing difficulties, panic attacks, stength and stamina destroyed, palpatations, strong tingling in one hand, some tinititis and occassional ear aches. | Have mentioned symptoms as they appeared to my doctor only to be prescribed zorloft for depression and anxiety and noten for heart palpatations. This in turn has seriously upset my stomach which the doctor prescribed yet another drug for. 40 mg dose Lipitor worked well in reducing my overall cholesterol levels; which are high in my family. The last 6 months of my life have been a health nightmare. I was a fit, strong and very active person 5 years ago. Now I am struggling walking too far and functioning in general. I have only been off lipitor for 2 weeks so time will tell if lipitor is to blame for my deteriorated health; winding down on the noten and zorloft as well. I am trying the VitC, CoQ10 and omega 3 path. | M | 45 | 5 years | 1/8/2010 | 1 | High Cholesterol | dosage was increased from 10 to 20 mg and the tingling and numbness in my feet and shins escalated. I even went to a podiatrist because my toes ached and my feet hurt. I've tried simvastatin, provastatin, and lovastatin. Each time the side effects return. I can't even sleep at night because of the sensations of tingling in my legs and feet. No more statins for me. Does anyone else have the pain in their toes, feet and shins? | F | 62 | 4 years | 1/5/2010 | 1 | High Cholesterol | Short term memory affected, loss of concentration levels, Dizzy, hightened Anxiety Levels,generaly feeling unwell like walking in a daze (Zombie like) Weakness in Leg Muscles. All of these where a gradual onset over time making it harder to identify the course | Terrible Medication! Ruined me every day quality of life! I was not surprised that many People reported similar and worst effects. Stay off it and find some other means to controll your cholesterol if you can. Big Money spinner for Lipitor who m ake Billions from it each year and it is making People quite sick. Naturepath for my options. | M | 54 | 3 years | 12/26/2009 |