LIPITOR Reviews (ATORVASTATIN CALCIUM)Average Rating: 1.9 (1269 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare LIPITOR with similar:
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| 1 | I had a heart attack one year ago | I experienced a heart attack exactly one year ago and after getting out of hospital the Cardiologist prescribed Lipitor 80mg and almost immediately the problems strated with major heartburn (that I never experienced prior) and a tiredness that I put down to the after effects of having a heart attack and a stent inserted. But other side effects started and the tingling in my feet and the aching shoulders and no energy. I knew it was the medication and when I told the doctor what I was experiencing, I was put on a 40 mg pill (pantoprazole sodium) and it worked as far as the heartburn went but all the other symptoms persisted. I have felt fatigued for the entire year and trouble with insomnia and that makes a tiring day with much confusion. Then suddenly at the beginning of December 2016, I started getting the heartburn back with a vengeance and so the doctor doubled the dose to 2 pills, one in the am and one at night. Didn't help at all, and now I am taking Dexilant 60 mg daily. I have appt's for a couple tests regarding my esophagus and stomach but I know now that my problems began with this dreaded drug. I truly want to stop it but I was told it was so very important to my survival. I would like to try some natural alternative med's and hopefully stop this poisionous drug. I just want off it and feel normal again. | F | 68 | 1 years 80 mg | 1/26/2017 | 1 | High Cholesterol/Heart Attack | Low back pain, stomach pain, nausea, lack of appetite | I feel worse now then before I had the heart attack. I have low back pain that is damn near debilitating, stomach pain very similar to what I would imagine having an ulcer would feel like. Feel sick at my stomach some of the time, food has no appeal. I stopped the Lipitor and the above mentioned symptoms dissipated. When I start back on the Lipitor symptoms return with a vengeance. AND it makes my already painful knees even worse! I go to the doctor's this week and I am going to tell her I am discontinuing the Lipitor. Of course she will swear it's not the Lipitor but I say BS! I hate feeling this crappy. | F | 61 | 1 years 10 mg 1X day | 1/14/2017 | 1 | High hereditary cholesterol | Almost ended up in hospital. There is no words to describe how horrible my week on Lipitor was. All I know is I thought i was going to die:( felt like my whole body had been crushed under something really heavy more so from the waist up. I have been off them now for two days and I still feel like I'm going to have a heartattack. My body ached. Stinging in my bones. Breathing difficulty. Tightens in the chest like i was going to have a heart attack. Body felt bruised and tender to touch. Lymph nodes were swollen headaches. Lack of motivation. Very suppressed appetite. Body flinched a lot. Heart racing. Dizziness. Just felt so horrible I could barely function. Never want to ever experience that ever again scared the hell outta me. Have seen my doctor and we are doing it naturally now. Recommended to get ur levels down is fish oil tablets. Ginger and garlic. Still sussing everything out. | I'm not a doctor but If I was I certainly wouldn't be recommending this medication to any age. I feel that it is just poisoning our systems and causing much worse problems with our health then before we ever went on them. The manufacturers need to take this drug off the market altogether | F | 38 | 1 weeks 40mg | 1/10/2017 | 1 | stent | ended up in ER With Bad Rash. Felt like wasp stings Welts all over whole body | F | 59 | 40 1X day | 12/31/2016 | 1 | High cholesterol | Dizziness, vertigo, anxiety and increased thumping heart rate. | I took this drug with confidence and an open mind. Never again, I'm looking into the all natural method of cholesterol control! | M | 41 | 3 days 20 | 12/1/2016 | 1 | High cholesterol | Noticed that if I walked fast, my legs would begin to feel very heavy and then I felt short of breath. Happened on about the 13th day of taking the drug and happened on each day there after. Took my blood pressure and heart rate on the machine at the grocery store and at the drugstore and had a heart rate of 110 and high blood pressure rate which I don't have high blood pressure. had to take Xanax to get my heart rate down as it spiked to 125. | We have a family history of high cholesterol as my mother has Native American ancestry. She tried Statins on and off for years. She got to one point where her muscles were so deteriorated she could not walk. So she has never taken them again and it took a good year to build her muscle strength back to what it had been. I think I'd rather die of a heart attack then to walk around every day feeling achy and that horrible feeling of heavy legs which triggers a high heart rate. I am not an overweight person. I've never smoked. I don't even eat that much. And, I exercised and did weight training and aerobics my whole life.But I have high cholesterol. Therefore from what I've read, it's part of your genetics and I'm just going to trust the Lord with my health and not live in terrible pain the rest of my life. | F | 61 | 10 days 10 | 11/11/2016 | 1 | Cholesterol of 256 | Dizziness, stomach aches, confusion, tiredness, trouble sleeping, muscle pain. I am healthy otherwise, labs are great and am a dancer. I stopped taking it and hope to feel better soon. The side effects are awful. | Will not take statins to lower my cholesterol. Trying a strict diet. | F | 74 | 3 weeks 10 mg | 9/16/2016 | 1 | Cholesterol of 236 | Electrical sensation which was generalized. Muscle ache, shoulder pain and tingling, itchy, numbness and pain in extremeties. Screw type calves pain. Overall weakness of muscles. Problem wearing shoes because feet got painful, burning and felt too tight.. | Stopped lipitor on my own. It has been seven month side effects have persisted. Had same reaction with crestor but side effects were less severe and took about three months to clear my body system. My doctor has as of today ordered all possible lab works. | M | 59 | 2 months 20 | 9/13/2016 | 1 | high cholesterol | After 14 days I felt terrible pressure in my head and had a first time nosebleed. The next day I was unable to walk more than 4 paces with muscle pains in every part of my body, arms, legs, stomach,back buttocks. This lasted for about a month and during this time I had difficulty in finishing a sentence or rememering words for common objects. Then I became very weak and started to have stabbing pains in my feet. My fingers and toes stiffened and my thigh muscles were terribly painful. | After a year and a half off this poison, I am still having slight side effects.I would never ever agree to using it again and would tell people to be wary. | F | 68 | 14 days 5mg 1X day | 9/13/2016 | 1 | heart attack | Night sweats,fatigue,muscle aches/cramps memory problems | Hope there is something better to try! | M | 52 | 2 months 20 | 8/27/2016 | 1 | Moderately high cholesterol | UTI, dizziness, confusion, slurred speech, extreme sweating. | I did okay on the brand name but I did get a UTI. The generic form was like poison to my body. Ugh!! | F | 49 | 10 days 40 | 8/17/2016 | 1 | Cholesterol | Side pain-both..after a check up was informed I had a non alcoholic fatty liver which is a side effect of taking lipitor...i was not told until after the blood test...stopped lipitor at once | Lipitor supposedly helps lower cholesterol but can damage other organs... That's horrible | F | 1 days 20mg | 8/10/2016 | 1 | Had a slight heart attack | Swollen hands can't squeeze never had this ever no one seems to know why | My cholesterol is 94 ldl54 why am on this | M | 59 | 10 days 80 | 8/6/2016 | 1 | To lower elevated numbers . | Was feeling fine went for physical and was told I didnt have cholestrol but my numbers were a little elevated. So I was put in Simvastain and not long after I stared becoming constipated so I called my Dr. She said stop taking it see what happens, well I can go some but still hard to .I am so miserable my appetite somewhat and bloated not bad but still bloated. | I wish I would have researhed it but trusted Dr. Scared. | F | 51 | 4 weeks 30mg | 8/3/2016 | 1 | high cholesterol | I started this almost 6 weeks ago because I have very high hereditary cholesterol and low good cholesterol. I was having heart palpitations and my heart rate was never under 100. First couple of weeks after starting 80mg It seemed to stop. I thought it was actually working. Then week 3 started with insomnia I could only sleep about 4 hours a day then I started getting really angry and emotional then I couldn't eat and started losing weight following extreme migraines to the point I had to go to the ER. They tried to give me a anxiety med but my doc said no. I can not take anything other then this. Now I'm having severe upper right adomanal pain and severe leg craps and spasms I finally got a appointment with my doc to get off this after begging for 2 weeks. I went from a pain scale of 2 to 11 everyday. I can't walk sleep eat and try to push myself everyday but I believe if I don't stop this I will honestly die. | F | 30 | 5 weeks 80MG | 8/1/2016 | 1 | High Cholesterol = 234 | Dry mouth. Sore throat. Indigestion. Heavy legs. Feeling out of sorts. | I feel obligated to share this information so that you make an informed decision about your health choices. I generally do research before taking any medication. I did not do it this time. Dumb mistake. I was not on any medication until recently diagnosed as a diabetic and prescribed Metformin. No family history of heart disease. No high blood pressure but my doctor was worried because my cholesterol was high:234. He prescribed l0 mg of Atorvastatin Calcium (I did not realize this was Lipitor. With calcium in the name I thought maybe it could actually be good for me). I was worried about a possible heart attack--at least that was my doctor's warning. I knew I was overweight and inactive. I surrendered to the medicine and began taking the 10 mg of the statin each night. I changed my diet and began exercising (walking) but found it increasingly harder to exercise each day. My legs felt very heavy by the 5th day after taking the statin. I became concerned. It was then that I decided to do some research and read reviews. I found this website. I read approximately 200 reviews which were mostly warning about negative side effects. I took myself off the statin and within two days I was feeling better and then six days later I was back to feeling normal. No more heaviness in my legs. I continue to walk everyday. No dry mouth or indigestion. I was lucky I was not on it longterm so I had no real concern about taking myself off it without my doctor's guidance. I read somewhere whe | F | 58 | 5 days 10 mg | 7/23/2016 | 1 | High cholesterol and family history | Cramps in legs, heaviness in upper thighs, can't walk as much as I use to, get tired after I walk | F | 66 | 9 years 20 mg | 7/4/2016 | 1 | high cholesterol | Severe toothaches blisters in mouth severe headaches stopped taking three days ago getting better already this drug is poison | This drug may lower cholesterol but you will not be able to enjoy life because of the pain and depression | M | 63 | 10 days | 6/12/2016 | 1 | stroke | Stomach pain, loss of appetite,which is causing me to loss weight, back pain, neck pain and extremely fatigued, | I went to the Dr.and he changed me back to Crestor , I am just wondering when my appitite will return I stopped taking atrovastin to fays ago and still no appetite | F | 62 | 3 months 20mg | 6/4/2016 | 1 | High cholesterol | Started with right shoulder pain. Then chest and back pain. Now slightly in my left shoulder. It feels like someone is squeezing me!!! Unable to sleep due to pain. I'm now starting to have crazy dreams. I have always been the kind of person who never stops, rarely watches tv and is quite active. Now, tv, couch, and bed are my best friends!!!! | After reading these other statements with the concerns.... I am calling the dr tomorrow and getting off it!!!! | F | 47 | 2 weeks 10mg | 6/3/2016 |