LIPITOR Reviews (ATORVASTATIN CALCIUM)Average Rating: 1.9 (1269 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare LIPITOR with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR LIPITOR | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | Cholesterol | Muscle wasting; weakness; fatigue; diarrhea; anorexic; | Placed on 10 mg even though Cholesterol WNL. Symptoms progressive. Was on it 18 months with weight loss of 20 pounds and all muscles wasting. Kidney function became a problem and significan heart muscle weakness. | M | 77 | 18 months | 11/24/2002 | 1 | Cholesterol | Did reduce cholesterol but after 18 months suddenly developed muscle cramps and tendon pain everywhere - feet, knees, shins, thigh,hips, upper arms, shoulders, elbows, wrists, hands, tightened muscles in neck which aggravted spinal disc sysmptoms in areas where I have had problems in the past. In great acute pain doing most things. Living hell. Gave up Lipitor for 5 weeks and symptoms rapidly improved. Started taking again and day 1 had very severe cramps and pains again all over everwhere at once, these faded slightly so I thought I would try another - same very severe reaction. No question in my mind that it is the culprit. | F | 60 | 18 months | 4/11/2004 | 1 | High Cholesterol | High Liver Enzyme Counts. Muscle Fatigue. Lipitor has damaged my liver permanently. I will never be the same. | F | 51 | 18 months | 6/17/2004 | 1 | for cholesterol | I HAVE MUSCLE SORENESS IN MY LEFT LEG ALSO MY HIP, PINS AND NEEDLES, INSOMNIA, NECK PAIN, NOW A SPUR IN MY RIGHT HEEL PAD, WEIGHT GAIN, TRUBLE REMEMBERING SOMETIMES, WHEN I WRITE MY HAND FEELS LIKE IT'S NOT MINE LIKE I'M WATCHING SMEONE ELSES HAND, ODD FEELING THAT.TIREDNESS, DEPRESSED AS WELL. | F | 52 | 18 months | 10/12/2005 | 1 | High cholesterol | I developed constipation and flatulence, which I had rarely suffered from before taking Lipitor. I developed hemorrhoids and even after increasing fluids and correcting the constipation, they did not go away. After a year of taking Lipitor my urine started feeling as if it was corrosive when it touched my skin and I developed a rash that I could not get rid of. About a month ago, I started to get muscle problems in my legs that made it difficult for me to get up from a sitting position. I have also been experience tremendous neck pain in my shoulders that was causing severe headaches. After two weeks off Lipitor my rash and the hemorrhoids are gone. The weakness in my legs seems to have diminished somewhat in the last day or so, making it easier to get up from a sitting position. My neck is still a problem and has not really improved but I am hoping that it will get better over time. | F | 56 | 18 months | 12/4/2006 | 1 | doctor perscribed it | and a doctor told me to stop taking it I would not recomend anyone to take the drug. | M | 57 | 18 months | 11/6/2004 | 1 | doctor perscribed it | and a doctor told me to stop taking it I would not recomend anyone to take the drug. | M | 57 | 18 months | 11/6/2004 | 4 | Reduce risk of second heart attack | At about the same time as I started taking lipitor I began experiencing chest muscle soreness and spazms which have persisted. I now take neurontin, an anti-seizure drug together with pain killers to deal with the muscle problems. I have had three blood tests over time which indicate that the lipitor is not damaging the muscles. | I remain suspicious that lipitor is contributing to my muscle problems (physiotherpist say there is other causes) but there is no denying that my cholesterol levels have been improved (they never were that bad). | M | 60 | 17 months | 8/10/2001 | 4 | high cholesterol - genetic | rashes - until I took it at night. then after the first year - joint pains - until I switched to 3 times a week, still at night. | F | 58 | 16 months | 5/7/2005 | 3 | HEART DISEASE | Cramping and weariness of the leg muscles. Always tired. | After about a year I didn't see any lower chlorestoral | M | 54 | 16 months | 1/26/2004 | 2 | Lower Cholesterol | Having been on Lipitor for over one year, with a modest reduction in cholesterol levels, I developed a severe reaction following shoulder surgery. Approximately 4 months following my surgery, I developed an abrupt and chronic pain in my arms, hands and the back of my upper legs (from buttocks to knees). After two MRI's and EMG and blood and urine analyisis reviewed by a Neurologist with negative and/or normal results, I self-diagnosed having read numerous patient complaints mirroring my symptoms and reading a cautionary warning to physicians to consider taking their patients off Lipitor when the patient was scheduled for major surgery (www.drug.com). My Neurologist has prescribed Prednisone 10mg to help with the symptoms. I am trying to limit my use of the Predisone but cannot take care of basic functions without a minimum of 10mg daily. As a CEO of a large sales company and a physcially active person, I'm extremely concerned about this chronic condition. I have been off Lipitor f | M | 57 | 16 months | 12/17/2005 | 1 | hypercholesterolemia | insommnia, loss of dreaming, inability to visualize; muscle pain, weakness, atrophy; tendinitis, tendinopathy, tendon contracture; miniscus damage; working memory and short-term memory loss, language and learning ability loss including spoken and written aphasia and inability to read; gall bladder disease, pancreatitis, acid reflux; inability to walk... I kept taking myself off this drug, was told it COULD NOT BE TH E DRUG, urged to go back on, recovering somewhat each time, but finally the damage was not reversible. Today, I live with Lipitor and (other statins) injury which affects my ability to work, and I continue to try to recover. | After long and only partial recovery from Lipitor I took two other statins with similar response. My cholesterol level is over 480. I have no cardiovascular disease, and see that according to this evidence based medicine source, there is NO evidence for statins in women for prevention. Do statins have a role in primary prevention? NO! http://www.ti.ubc.ca/pages/letter48.htm#comment "A question to us about Letter #48: What is the evidence of benefit for primary prevention in women? There were 10,990 women in the primary prevention trials (28% of the total). Only coronary events were reported for women, but when these were pooled they were not reduced by statin therapy, RR 0.98 [0.85-1.12]. Thus the coronary benefit in primary prevention trials appears to be limited to men, RR 0.74 [0.68-0.81], ARR 2.0%, NNT 50 for 3 to 5 years." | F | 54 | 16 months | 2/2/2006 | 1 | 3 Stents placement | Very sneaky drug that takes a toll over time. Got to the point where I could not walk or climb stairs anymore. Consistently got stiffer and sorer with weight gain. Told cardiologist and PC doctor who just dismissed my problems. I fired my cardiologist. Stopped taking this drug cold turkey and two weeks later feel very little pain. Will stay off this drug until my new cardiologist at UW hospital can hear me and take tests for my results. (and won't tell me I am fat and overweight like my old small town cardiologist said.) went from 185 lbs before taking this stuff to 220 lbs in six months because I was just burned out all the time and slept 12 hours a day!!!. I need to have a doctor that takes my words serious and won't just ignore my problems. What are these doctors thinking about by not considering this drug to be a poison!! Must stick up for yourself and begin questioning your doctors qualification for promoting this toxic crap. | Do your homework on this drug! So glad for reliable internet sources that confirmed my problems were the same as thousands of other folks. FDA should be ashamed of not telling people of these life threatening side affects from STATINS. KIND OF SOUNDS LIKE SATIN! | M | 61 | 16 months 80 1X day | 5/29/2016 | 1 | Heart attack | Extreme muscle weakness. Muscle pain throughout body. Memory loss. Brain fog. GI issues. Tinnitus. Muscle stiffness. Runny nose. Fatigue. Constantly felt unwell. | Honestly felt like I was just slowly dying. Stuff is poison. Been off a month and very slowly starting to feel a bit better. Hope no permanent damage. | M | 54 | 16 months 80mg 1X day | 5/28/2023 | 3 | prescribed after stent | muscle aches in arms | M | 58 | 15 months | 3/31/2005 | 1 | High cholesteral | For about 15 months I experienced SEVERE fatigue, and initially for about three months very bad headaches which diminished in intensity but never completely went away. Insomnia, I would wake up at 3:00 am and be unable to go back to sleep. Difficulty in swallowing and constipation. | I went to 3 different doctors for these symptoms. All of them dismissed my view that maybe the Lipitor was causing all of this even though the symptoms started about 3 weeks after uping the dosage from 20 mg. to 40. I quit taking Lipitor about a week ago - thanks in part to this web site. Within 3 days I was no longer consistently waking up at 3:00 am unable to go back to sleep. Headaches seem to be dissipating as well, and the extreme fatigue is disappearing. I don't expect MD's to be knowledgeable about every drug and I recognize that this drug has probably saved a lot of lives, but it is the attitude that I find irresponsible, that these problems couldn't possibly be caused by Lipitor since as all the doctors said | M | 56 | 15 months | 1/3/2005 | 1 | High cholesterol | Loss of memory, aphasia, tremor, violent anger, tearfulness, insomnia, muscle weakness, easy bruising, and nosebleeds. | Bleeding & bruising problems stopped in about one month after stopping the drug. Insomnia is better but not gone. Mood problems, language problems, and memory problems lessened by still present. Tremor is apparently here to stay since it's been about two year since stopped the drug and the tremor is the same. Doctor denies any connection between the effects and the drug, and also denies any connection between stopping the drug and having improvement/cessation of symtoms. I also watched my mother-on-law and her brother both start and stop the drug due to extreme fatigue and muscle pain. It is the WORST DRUG EVER MADE, and the cost of it both in terms of money and emotional and physical pain does not justify the handful of heart attackes it *might* prevent. Do yourself a favor - buy some fish oil and some flush-free niacin to treat your cholesterol, and run like hell away from Lipitor!!! | M | 50 | 15 months | 3/16/2009 | 1 | Blocked Arteries-Surgery CABG-3 | Depression, bursitis in left hip didn't respond to 5-6 cortisone shots, PT, toes hurt when sheet touched, MEMORY LOSS-severe, dizzyness, in a FOG bottoms of feet hurt, felt like shin splints,tingling in 2 fingers of left hand | Went from 1 specialist to another-no one seemed to put it together since I only said those things that related to their specialty. Finally fingers began to "tingle" psychiatrist suggested nerve damage. That niite I got online put in 17 symptoms no matter how unrelated & came up with this site as first choice.THANK YOU ! I read & ried-I was NOT crazy! I hadn't included Depression as my memory retnd I checked I had been on LIPITOR years ago when I had my first MMDepression! I found that I had been of and on since the late 90's! My ex owned a pharmacy which has since closed and used to fill the Rx-he was on also.I'll have to depend on Drs record to estab dates. I have not taken any since that nite-called cardiologist office told to stay off for a mth. Called back this week.After another mth they will do more bloodwork. I met w/Primary Care today-ordered blood tests & referral to the Neurologist. Appt w/orthopedist M,PsyT, I refuse to take another statin Changed way I eat in March & #'s went Way down TC 152,Tri 70,LDL 64,HDL74.My mind is more imp than any drug. Still in PT & have pain but I can live w/that. Talk to Atty Fri. We ALL need to sue as Docs are only aware of muscle issues! | F | 65 | 15 months 20mg 1X day | 6/24/2011 | 1 | high ldl | intense calf pain, swollen feet & ankles, memory loss | Yes it did lower cholesterol and LDL but June 04 dosage increased from 20 mg to 40 mg per day because ldl had elevated again and Dr. wanted ldl @ 70 and mine was at 114. Been off Lipitor since 08-23-04 due to severe calf pain.ldl is now 211. 10-13-04 Dr. put me on niaspan 500 mg to start. He is not happy, like I was!!!!!!!! | F | 52 | 15 months | 10/15/2004 | 5 | High cholesterol | None | Lipitor cut my LDL in half while my HDL increased slightly. My total cholesterol went from 240 to 140. | M | 45 | 14 months | 5/7/2004 |