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 | High Cholesterol | Confusion, memory issues, muscle loss, weakness, neuropathy. | My mother has Cholesterol of 250. She is 86 years old. No stroke, no heart attack. Strong as an ox. She does not take statins. Latest studies show that statins will stop a heart attack or stroke in only one of 144 patients studied. If you want to lower your cholesterol do in naturally. Research how to do it on internet. All my side effects went away 3 months off the medication. Still suffer some muscle pain though. | M | 57 | 10 years 1X day | 12/16/2015 | 1 | High cholesterol | Aches, brain fog, made me feel awful | This drug should be taken off the market. I took this drug for 10 years. At first no problems with it but I started climbing the stairs and get terrible pains in my legs. I also started forgetting things. My sister told me she had come off it because of terrible pains. It dawned on me it’s the LIPITOR. I came off it and a week later I had my energy back, able to run up and down stairs again, memory and aches gone. I will never take this drug again | F | 10 years 1X day | 12/8/2019 | 1 | Doc said high cholesterol | Neurological - cognitive decline - primary progressive aphasia - loss of language | Started experiencing recognizable issues 3 years ago. They got progressively worse. Have stopped taking this year. | M | 75 | 10 years 10 mg | 12/12/2019 | 1 | Yes | Calcification of arteries (Triple By-Pass) Low Vit-D, Low Testosterone, Hand Tremors, psoriasis, Memory loss. | It is POISON! | M | 67 | 10 years 80mg | 9/23/2019 | 2 | Hypercholesteroloemia | Was on Lipitor 10 mg per day for about 5 years and experienced chronic and acute back pain which gradually improved but seemed strange to me because I hadn't really done anything to strain my back muscles. New doc gave me a different statin but I had leg cramps so he put me on Baycol. Baycol was removed from market so next doc put me back on Lipitor. My cholesterol level increased to slightly over 200 so my doc increased dosage to 40 mg a day. Hand and leg cramps returned. Hands diagnosed as carpal tunnel syndrome and I wore a hand brace to sleep several nights a week which controlled the symptoms. Recently developed inflammation of my foot muscles and joints and (apparently) plantar fasciitis of my left foot. Doc prescribed 800 mg Motrin qid but the foot problems became worse. General weakness in my feet, calves, and hands and tingling and burning in the soles of my feet. Depression, for which I've been taking an SSRI for about two years and may not be related to the Lipitor. | I had high cholesterol (over 350) and was prescribed Lipitor in 1996 after other methods failed to have much effect. I have taken two stress tests over the past ten years and was told I had a healthy cardiovascular system with no trace of heart disease. I am 6' tall, weighed 177 lbs., and considered myself healthy until recently. I need to be able to pass a physical readiness test, including a 1.5 mile run, every 6 months because I'm in the military. I took myself off Lipitor because I can not take the physical readiness test. In fact I need a cane in the morning to get out of bed. I am not overweight. I was told to stretch and exercise more but that has not helped my symptoms, which have continued to worsen. Until recently I walked to work and shopping, 4 or 5 miles most weekdays, and more on the weekends. I also ran 2 miles, 3 times a week. Now I have difficulty walking and problems with my balance and I've gained 10 pounds because I've become sedentary. Two days after taking myself off Lipitor my feet have improved a little and I'm looking forward to resuming a more active lifestyle. I think my symptoms are a result of Lipitor. | M | 58 | 9 years | 1/28/2005 | 1 | blocked arteries, high cholestrol | memory loss, transient amnesia, severe shoulder and knee pain, insomnia, extreme tiredness,hard to get up in the AM and hard to stay awake, crippling back pain, depression, loss of balance | I took Pravachol and Zocor before Lipitor - cardiologist increased dose of Lipitor to 40mg and 80mg. The last 4 years of my life have been a physical and mental nightmare. As soon as stopped Lipitor immediately felt much better but degenerative back disease (MD said was due to aging) is still severe but improving somewhat. Statins destroyed my life, I am certain of. | M | 65 | 9 years | 5/29/2009 | 1 | High Cholesterol | Joint and Muscle Pain / Stiffness | I took 20 mg for 9 years and I told numerous physicians about my pain and stiffness and was told that I had arthritis and to keep taking it. I left it at home by accident when we went on vacation and within 3 days, the pain in my legs began to go away. After 2 weeks I knew it was a very dangerous medication. I went to my new physician and he wanted me to try Pravachol. Afer 4 days on it, I was in a fog and thought I had the flu. I have been off it for just 36 hours and feel better. I am an RN and should have known that I was experiencing side effects with Lipitor, but you listen to your Doctor because you trust him. I now tell my patients to trust what their bodies are telling them. Statins can't be good for anyone but the drug companies!!!!!!!!!! They keep lowering the recommended levels so that almost everyone is considered to have "high" cholesterol. If someone is 30 and on this for 30 or 40 years there is not telling what the long term effects will be. And a mi | F | 60 | 9 years | 7/8/2007 | 1 | Prevention for hyperlipemia | Muscle pain, muscle cramps, joint pain, irritability, depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation, trouble with relationships, significant weight gain, appetite increase, acid reflux | F | 39 | 9 years 20 mg 1X day | 4/22/2023 | 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 | 5 | Cholesterol | Have had no side effects. | So far has worked just fine for me was put on it at a young age. High cholesterol runs in my family. | F | 32 | 8 years 20 1X day | 12/22/2013 | 5 | cholesterol control | none | M | 8 years | 11/19/2006 | 5 | Hereditary High Cholesterol | None. | Lipitor dropped my cholesterol from the 260-280 range to the 160-180 range. | M | 25 | 8 years | 2/8/2006 | 5 | Some added gas/wind... | (Cont’d – Pt.3) I’ve been on 80mg/day dose for one year+. I was more 'windy' but this seems to have subsided. I have no other side effects, but some fatique (I’m 57). I EAT ~NORMALLY~ folks! I eat a balanced diet - no sugar, butter or cream, rarely coffee, but gallons of English tea with skimmed milk - I do eat margarine, red meat (cut the fat off) 2-3 times per week, and some cheese. I drink maybe an average of 21 units of alcohol weekly (ale, red wine). I rarely exercise, am 5ft 11inches and weigh 12 stone 10lbs (or 178 lbs). I suggest getting your liver function test done with your cholesterol test every 6 months. Dr's are not Gods and they don't know everything - some don't know much at all - talk to the experts – cardiologists and heart consultants!!! Take everything with a pinch of salt; be healthily sceptical; go slowly and be wary, but don't cut your life short by raging against a drug that may be saving/e | M | 57 | 8 years | 11/15/2006 | 5 | Cholesterol control | None | Maintains my cholesterol levels at normal. | M | 55 | 8 years 10 mg 1X day | 11/10/2010 | 5 | Familial hypercholesterolaemia | Some added gas/wind, otherwise I put down the extra tiredness due to my age of 57; I know I'm not 21 anymore! | Common sense here folks please; accept that everyone's different and drugs will affect us differently; put any chemical down your throat and you've got to accept that there could be consequences, sometimes not so good, sometimes awful - and sometimes blinkin' marvellous. Don't preach to others that this (or any other) is an evil drug; go slowly and carefully and get a second opinion if desired. Here are my experiences of taking Lipitor and Zocor statins over ~NEARLY 30 YEARS~! This length of time on statins has probably never even been logged before over such a long time. Thankfully statins have done me a POWER OF GOOD so far. High cholesterol is in my genes; it killed my dad died at age 58 when I was just 14. I'm now 57 (male) and hope to go on a bit longer :o) Note: I live in the UK and Europe has a different cholesterol measurement system of mmol/litre versus the USA system of mg/decilitre. Conversion rate: mmol/L x 38.5 = mg/dL. According to my 'GP' (Dr), th | M | 57 | 8 years | 11/15/2006 | 5 | Some added gas/wind... | (Cont’d – Pt.4) , but don't cut your life short by raging against a drug that may be saving/extending lives of thousands like me. | M | 57 | 8 years | 11/15/2006 | 5 | Some addedd gas/wind.... | (Cont'd - Pt.2) According to my 'GP' (Dr), the UK male 'desireable target' is 5.1 mmol/litre or 196 mg/decilitre. Docs now actually like you to be lower than that if possible. In 1977 (at age 28) with a 'count' of 10mmol/L (385mg/dL), a VERY careful low-chol. diet made virtually NO difference to my count. So I went onto Zocor (new-ish then) and remained on it for 21 years, finally on a dose of 40mg/day with no real side effects - it lowered my count to 5.6mmol/L. As my count started to rise again to 7.8 in 1997 (at age 48), I switched to Lipitor, starting with 20mg/day and then 40mg/day which dropped my count A LOT to just 5.1mmol/L and with an HDL 'good cholesterol' count of 1.6. After a 3-week holiday without pills, my count rose to 10.4, so I went back onto 40mg/day of Lipitor - but my count was still only 6.7, so I put myself onto 80mg/day Lipitor and my count went down to 5.5 - this is the highest dose recommended. I’ve been on this | M | 57 | 8 years | 11/15/2006 | 4 | To reduce cholesterol | I have been on this medicine for about 8 years. Reduce my cholesterol level for 8.6 to 4.8 over a 3 month period. This has meant that I can eat and live a normal life. Over time however I have noticed the occassional muscle soreness, lower back pain and now a pain in my left hip. The hip pain is a muscle that continually knots up and often needs physiotheraphy to fix it. Over the last few years years 6 - 8 of using this product I have noticed that from time to time I suffer from unusual amount of vagueness, short term memory loss and shortness of breath. The muscle pain keeps me awake at night and life is just a pain, but I must point out I am not feel depressed about it at all. I just get on with life and try to manage the muscle pains. I am today a bit concerned after being feeling strange for about the last 3 week, by strange I mean daily events of vagues, loss of short term memory, head aches and shortness of breath so I when to see the doctor and he suggested I stop taking the med | Worked well for the first 5 years but cholesterol seems to have creeped up a bit from 4.4 to 5.3 over years 6, 7 & 8 | M | 39 | 8 years | 12/14/2006 | 4 | Familial Hypercholestemia | I took it for about 8 years, starting at age 25, with no side effects (at least, nothing I attributed to the Lipitor). Went off on a couple occasions to have a baby then right back on. After 8 years, suddenly started having severe weaknesses in my legs, specifically thigh muscles felt like I had been trying to run marathons with no exertion. Went off Lipitor and pain went away. Now I'm on Crestor and just started having even worse side effects :o( | This medication DID help lower my cholesterol, I was close to 300 when I started it (and I did eat healthy and exercise moderately at the time, it's hereditary for me)...and I was taking 40 mg. to get my cholesterol down around 200. My mother has taken it for even longer at max dose (80 mg) and has had no side effects she attributes to the medication. The bottom line is, listen and pay attention to your body...everyone's body is different and some people can't take the same thing! My brother also tried Lipitor and he couldn't tolerate it, it made him fall asleep! | F | 34 | 8 years | 11/22/2006 | 4 | High cholesterol | None, lowered my cholesterol by 47 points Balanced my good vs bad cholesterol | M | 48 | 8 years | 6/13/2007 |