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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR LIPITOR | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | high cholesterol | Update: I had posted all side effects had gone when I stopped taking lipitor, but not so. I have ongoing muscle pain in my biceps, worse when I have to keep them flexed for a bit and then straighten the arm out. Oh, and vision close up is still blurry. | F | 48 | 4 months | 11/12/2004 | 1 | chol 205, type II diabetes | Only on since June - started having charlie horses, dizziness, flu like symptoms, and headache that has lasted over 7 days. Blood sugar and blood pressure both now elevated. Stopped 4 days ago. No leg pain or spasms since - headache and elevated blood sugar still. Feel shaky and | Lipitor given to me as preventitive measure - I have decided I will stay off it and continue more exercise and continue to lose weight. I will be going in for testing shortly to see if it made any difference in my chol. | F | 57 | 4 months | 10/21/2004 | 1 | high cholesterol | blurred vision, muscle pain and weakness, fatigue, loss of stamina. | Within 2 days of stopping Lipitor I feel unbelievably better!!!! All negative side effects are gone. They snuck up on me insideously over a few months, so I mistakenly believed | F | 48 | 4 months | 9/14/2004 | 1 | High Cholesterol | After about 4 months of taking Lipitor, one day while walking, my left leg, below the knee, experienced intense pain and stiffness. Symtoms have persisted for a week and after reading the comments on this board, I am stopping it. While it worked well by lowering my cholesterol, I had no idea this was a side affect. | M | 40 | 4 months | 7/17/2004 | 1 | high cholesterol | The most terrible muscle spasms in legs,back and chest, so bad I could not sit or stand. Nausea, vomiting, chest pain,blood in urine, side effects were so bad I ended up in the emergency room on two occasions. The last time I was on vacation and was brought to the hospital where the Doctor took a blood and urine test and told me that the pain was from the lipitor. | Never take this horrible drug , I don't know if it has caused permanent damage... but the side effects alone will make you get off the drug. | F | 54 | 4 months | 10/22/2005 | 1 | high cholesterol | unrelenting muscle pain- leg cramps - numbness in both legs - exhaustion - joints poping and cracking | took for 4 months - am still experiencing side effects 7 months after stopping the drug - I feel as if I have been aged 10 years and that I have been damaged | F | 52 | 4 months | 9/24/2001 | 1 | high cholesterol | depression, exercise intolerance, muscle weakness, memory problems, including 2 periods of amnesia, each lasting several hours, nausea and vomiting | lowered | F | 51 | 4 months | 6/25/2005 | 1 | High cholesterol, post stentplaceme | I am writing this for my husband. He initially took 10mg every other day several years ago but would complain of muscle soreness and tore a calf muscle while running once. At that point he stopped the Lipitor and improved. Fast forward 3 years, he went to dr for check up (he has known coronary disease) and was started back on Lipitor 20mg. At about 2 months in, he had nausea and sweating occasionally. One month later he ended up in hospital for coronary disease and dose up to 40. After 1 more month had episodes of extreme fatigue, increased belching, stomach discomfort and leg heaviness, low bp and pulse. Like the flu without fever. Hospitalized and cathed again but heart arteries were fine and previously placed stents open Dr stopped blood pressure meds and Lipitor. He was back to normal in a week. We thought it was the Toprol at first due to low bp and pulse also. So started back on Lipitor and within a week felt horrible again. Stopped it a week ago and will NOT go back on it. | M | 43 | 4 months 40 mg | 6/24/2012 | 1 | high cholesterol | Pain under ribs , restless legs .muscle pain everywhere..lethargy depression.insomnia.brain fog mood swings .lack of strength..blurred vision.forgetfulness.. | F | 54 | 4 months 40mg | 2/6/2013 | 1 | hypercholesterolemia | Lipitor had the same side effects as Zocor and confirmed that Zocor caused myalgia, neuralgia, insomnia, dementia, polyneuropathy, rhabdomyolisis, subdural hematoma, coma, and pain, pain pain. Lipitor seems to cause even more nerve damage than Zocor. | Before they go to Hell, the people at Pfizer and the doctors who shill for them should be sent to a very nasty prison. Pfizer and its doctor salesmen should be stripped of every asset including their medical licenses. They should be totally destroyed. The proceeds of their financial liquidation should be distributed to their victims. | M | 63 | 4 months 20 1X day | 10/23/2010 | 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 | to lower cholesterol | severe joint pains, needed help getting out of bed and off a chair, whereas had been previously active, neck pain up to the back of the head, right knee protruding out of joint, whereas left knee remained normal, wrist and arm joints sore, red dots on skin all over body, liver function tests normal, however had all of other side effects. Once I stopped Lipitor, side effects went away gradually. | I had a similar reaction recently to Tricor, another cholesterol lowering medication.Had similar muscle and joint pains and decided to go off of that. | F | 78 | 4 months | 1/25/2002 | 1 | High Cholesterol and tryglycerides | nausea.. which progressively got worse the longer I took it. It became so extreme - it was causing me to be dysfunctional. The final week it turned into extreme vomiting and diarrhea. I thought I had a flu bug that just would not go away. As soon as I quit taking the Lipitor - I had my life back. | I also experienced memory loss and extreme tiredness. I might also mention that I started on 10mg and experienced really no side effects.. but when I was up'd to 20 mg it all started to go downhill. | F | 40 | 4 months | 1/12/2005 | 1 | To control cholesterol | After taking it for 3-4 months I had terrible pains in knee, ankle, big toe. Couldn't walk or even sleep comfortably. I thought I had gout, which runs in my family. HMO doctors said not gout, but didn't know what. I finally stumbled on this web site, and thought it might be Lipitor. I stopped taking it and immediately got some relief. That was a month and a half ago. Still have some pain and other weird symptoms (eg. popping) in knee, ankle, big toe joints, but it is gradually getting less. | This drug is too dangerous to use. We need something with the same good effects, but not the danger. | M | 63 | 4 months | 3/11/2004 | 1 | high c | mussel twitches every where mussel spasms and cramps | would not give this stuff to a goat | M | 42 | 4 months | 1/7/2004 | 1 | HIGH COLESTEROL | blurring eyesight, hair loss, painful leg cramps, muscle weakness in my left arm, hard to walk any length of time, my legs and ankles ache so bad, have been unable to lose weight even when on strict diet, very, very tired all the time; pain in almost every muscle, digestive changes, bloating, gas, diarhea. | My doctor keeps insisting that it isn't the drug. But all of these symptoms have come on since taking Lopid and Lipitor. Especially the eyesight problems, even went and bought new glasses and hasn't helped!! The fatigue and muscle weakness are the worst. Am only in my 40's and feel like I'm in my 80's!! Am going to stop taking the drug and see if the symptoms improve. In spite of what my quack says!! | F | 43 | 4 months | 9/9/2003 | 1 | cholesteral | imence pain in legs,calf,feet,cramping in legs and feet,even toes,,armpain,swelling,extreme heaviness in limbs,backache,bloody noes, high cpk, my short term memory is terrible,confusion.tingling,buzzing in limbs,big time depression.The list is endless. I seem to get a little relief and wack. Right back again. I have been off it approx 5 weeks. I have been to neurologists and had emg,bone Dr.for xrays primary Dr. And now the major hospital to the big guys. I will have a more intense emg and then they will do biopsies on my limbs and thigh. not one Dr will blame Lipitor.I guess it's the forbidden word to say if it's something negetive. This stuff is definitely for everybody.By the way I was only on it approx 4 months.Sad to read so many people are suffering from side effects of this but good to know I am not nuts and I am not alone. | A huge money maker so I doubt it will ever be taken off the market.I've read short term and long term users of this stuff. I am beginnig to wonder if it's just a matter of time for everyone who's on it. | F | 56 | 4 months | 7/19/2007 | 1 | Chlosterol | In decreasing order of severity: Extreme vertigo, short term memory loss, tendonitisis in heels, calf leg cramps, muscle loss, severe tintitinitis (ringing in ears) | On Lipitor for 4 months. Switched to Vitorin for six months with decreased side effects, Chlosterol dropped from 220 to 90 but now side effects are worsening, particularly heel tendon bruising and muscle loss. See http://www.spacedoc.net/rest_of_my_story.html for articles on side effects. Be aware and monitor side effects. Red Yeast is a statin. My allopathic docs are both taking most folks off statins and recommending slo-naicin and coenzyme Q10 with blood tests every three to six months to see if colesterol remains down. | M | 65 | 4 months | 12/19/2007 | 1 | high cholesterol | Right now I have severe anemia, feel very confused, pains in feet, legs and back, nausea, cold and pale skin, bad acid reflux, headaches, and by 6 pm every day I can't keep my eyes open. I have also caught 3 colds in the past four months, which is not a usual occurrence for me. I stopped the drug 3 days ago against my doctor's advice. I don't know how long it will take me to feel better, but I do know this. When I was on Crestor for 2 months last year, I ended up with an emergency colonoscopy and my specialist told me to get off that too. Honestly, once I was off the Crestor for a few weeks I felt a heck of a lot better. I know now that statins act like poison in my body. | I think Lipitor, Crestor and other statin drugs do more harm than good. When I am not on them I feel like a healthy and productive human being. I don't care what the doctor says. She's crazy to put me on this stuff. | F | 58 | 4 months 30 mg 1X day | 3/30/2015 | 1 | high Colestrol | Leg pains, loss of memory, E.D. and sleep loss. | I was never told of these possible side effects | M | 72 | 4 months | 9/20/2009 |