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 | cholestrol | the muscle spasms in my legs were so bad I had difficulty climbing 4 stairs - highly unusual for me. | you need to keep on top of these drugs because the dr. doesn't always monitor enough. I wouldn't have known what was wrong with me if I hadn't seen an ad on t.v. for this med. describing side effects. Dr. said it was vitamin C deficiency. I stopped the lipitol and the symptoms went away. I would have believed the dr. if it weren't for a kind pharmacist who said I should get a second opinion. | F | 54 | 3 months | 9/4/2001 | 1 | high cholesterol | I was started on 80 Lipitor, took it for 3 months. muscle weakness, legs felt like dropping off, muscle cramps, twitching, day and night.leathargy, was coming home from work so tired, would not eat going right to bed. pain in the back in shoulder muscles. | Told my Dr. about symptoms, hes idea was well we will lower it to about 20 Lipitor, I said no way. I am now on a low fat diet, and will loose about 25lbs, and use diet control, would never take another statin drug, It has taken about a month to feel good again. | F | 58 | 3 months | 2/3/2006 | 1 | High Cholesterol | Lower back pain, stiff neck - could not turn head | Dr. prescribed Lipitor. I took 20MG for 3 months. Had lower back pain so severe could hardly get out of bed. Ater getting up and moving around, pain would subside. Also started to have neck pain while turning head. Dr. took a muscle injury test and results came back positive! Stopped taking Lipitor. After a few months, new muscle injury test came back negative. Neck pain went away within a few weeks. AFTER 1 YEAR BEING OFF LIPITOR I STILL HAVE THE LOWER BACK PAIN THAT FORCES ME TO WAKE UP AND GET OUT OF BED AFTER EXACTLY 7.5 HOURS OF SLEEP! Once I get up and move around, the pain disappears. If I lay down and take a nap in the afternoon, I don't have any back pain that wakes me up but once I lay down to sleep at night, 7.5 hours later I'm forced awake by the pain. I think it has something to do with the spinal disks expanding at night and by morning something that was damaged in that area by Lipitor kicks in pain. LIPITOR MAY CAUSE PERMANENT DAMAGE TO BODY TISSUES! PLEASE RESEARCH CAREFULLY B4 TAKING! | M | 50 | 3 months | 8/25/2005 | 1 | High cholesterol | Severe muscle pain in calves, unable to run at all even though I've been running marathons all my life. Felt very unwell, as though I had a high temperature. | My total cholesterol did drop from 6.5 mmol/l to 3.6 but my HDL also dropped to below 1 mmol/l actually making my good/bad cholesterol ratio worse. Because I felt so ill, I stopped taking it. Cholesterol went up almost immediately after stopping Lipitor and I felt great again and was able to run again. A year later I tried Lipitor again with the same side effects as before. I stopped taking it and decided to live with high cholesterol as taking this drug made my life not worth living. | M | 46 | 3 months | 3/6/2007 | 1 | High Cholesterol | My mother started taking 40 mg. of Lipitor 3 months ago. During the first month she complained about her head hurting. She began getting very confused. She was always exhausted, falling asleep all the time. Complained about her legs always feeling like lead. Within the last six weeks, her physical health has deteriorated to the point of her being confined to a wheelchair, in constant pain with her shoulders, knees, and a feeling like her whole body hurts. She shakes as if she has Parkinsons. If I had not seen the news recently about the two men suing Pfizer over what Lipitor had done to their lives, I wouldn't have even thought about that being the cause. Finding this website confirmed it. I have taken her off the Lipitor, and am hoping that alot of her pain and fatigue and muscle problems will start to get better, although it scares me that alot of people are saying they haven't improved. | I wish I had know about this a week after she started with the symptoms...I would NEVER recommend this drug to anyone! It has ruined whatever years my mother had left to enjoy life - she was very active for her age - now she's in a wheelchair. | F | 84 | 3 months | 6/15/2006 | 1 | high cholesterol | Tiredness, both physical and mental. Brain fog. Progressively got worse over course of treatment. | When I started taking it, no immediate side effects. I'd assumed that the tiredness was just one of those things that happens with age, like needing reading glasses, or joints aching in the cold. Discovered otherwise when I left my Lipitor at a friend's house, asked her to post it back to me. By the time it arrived a few days later I was feeling better than I had for months. Had previously been on Pravastatin, my doc switched me because cholesterol was still too high, but it didn't have these side-effects either. Will ask about whether any point in switching back but won't take Lipitor again. Frankly prefer quality of life to quantity! | M | 50 | 3 months | 6/7/2006 | 1 | coronary artery disease | Severe numbness in hand such that it wakes me out of my sleep. Tingling in feet, soreness in calf muscles. Occassional sharp shock like pain in head. | I have taken myself off because I can't stand the side-effects. Never really had high cholesterol but current medical thinking is that lipitor may reverse coronary disease. I would rather just walk more. Upon reading all of the reviews how long can it be before there is a significant class action lawsuit to stop this drug from being prescribed. | M | 47 | 3 months | 8/20/2004 | 1 | high cholosterol | I have been taking 10mg of Lipitor for 3 months. After 1 month I had severe diarrhoea which cleared after 1 week , so I paid no attention to it. Excessive gas another sympton which persists. For the past 2 weeks I have had back ache (which I have experienced before) but this time not cured by chiropractic treatment. I was puzzled!! Recently after walking for a while I experienced severe pain in my right leg from thigh to knee and then to ankle which caused me to limp. I found this website and I seem to have similar symtoms as others who take this medication. I see my GP tomorrow for the results of my first 3 month blood test. I shall come off the medication today. Thank you. | F | 66 | 3 months | 8/5/2004 | 1 | high total cholesterol | I had severe muscle pain and weakness after taking only a few doses of Lipitor. My legs were so weak and tired I could hardly walk up and down my stairs. I went off the drug for a few days and all the symptoms subsided. At my doctor's suggestion, I went on Lipitor again and experienced the same symptoms. This was with only a small dosage (I think it was 10mg). I could not function; I have never felt such weakness. I am now taking Zocor, which certainly has side effects, but I can function. | F | 29 | 3 months | 9/21/2004 | 1 | cholesterol | tingling in feet & face/abdominal & muscular pain in back of neck/ Cramps in calves This stuff is horrible!!! | You have to fight with your doctor not to take this stuff!! Get the word out! | M | 49 | 3 months | 10/18/2004 | 1 | cholesterol | inflamatory muscle pain and soreness in upper back, head pain and pressure and the feeling of being in a fog. | EXTREMELY DANGEROUS DRUG! I have never had these problems until I started Lipitor. I have discontinued it 2 weeks ago with now a 40% reduction in side effects but the pain is still really bad. Does anyone know how long it will take for the side effects to completely go away? Will they go away? Lipitor lowered my cholesterol from 268 to 163 but it nearly killed me in return. It's not worth it. The doctor told me I was imagining all this and said it was so safe it should be in the drinking water supply. Can you believe that! This drug is an extremely dangerous poison. The Pfizer website is very low-key about the side effects. You better take matters into your own hands as Pfizer's only concern is profits - NOT your health. | M | 49 | 3 months | 8/28/2004 | 1 | After bypass surgery | Extreme hair loss, confusion, brain fog, short term memory memory loss( thought I developed dementia) cognitive decline) difficulty processing thoughts into a conversation. Loss of balance, | I stopped taking it. | F | 71 | 3 months 80 mg 1X day | 11/26/2021 | 1 | After bypass surgery | Extreme hair loss, confusion, memory loss( thought I developed dementia, difficulty processing thoughts into a conversation. | I stopped taking it. | F | 71 | 3 months 80 mg 1X day | 11/26/2021 | 1 | Borderline cholesterol | Severe wrist, arm, knee, and leg pain. Was walking a mile daily and doing 30 minutes of routine exercises daily before taking statin. Was having a difficult time even getting out of chair when on statin. | I stopped taking statin with my doctors approval. Muscle leg and weakness is getting better. | F | 79 | 3 months 20 mg 1X day | 1/31/2024 | 1 | High cholesterol | High liver enzymes, memory loss, nausea | F | 67 | 3 months 10 MG | 10/22/2018 | 1 | High cholesterol | Started about two weeks ago: unable to remain asleep, then unable to fall asleep then, I developed a fear of the nighttime. Irrational, I know, but last night and the night before I had EXTREME anxiety about it being dark outside. Just thinking that in a few hours it'll be dark again tonight makes me anxious. | My doctor (actually, it was a nurse practitioner) told me this drug was completely safe.I GRILLED her about it and she said I'd be fine. I am so ticked off right now. . .how many days will it take for this to get out of my system? How many more nights of torture? | F | 63 | 3 months 10 mg 1X day | 12/14/2018 | 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 | Cholesterol | For as long as I could remember I've always had perfect cholesterol (from a percentage perspective anyway). It's always been right around 120/120. For what ever reason my LDL shot up to 175 so a (not my normal one) Dr. just prescribed me Lipitor. I didn't notice any problems for just over 2 months then all of a sudden one day I stared feeling horrible like a severe flu just hit me. For the next few days I couldn't get enough sleep I was incredibly week and had pains throughout my upper body. I saw my regular Dr. and decided to stop taking the drug, she also drew blood. Luckily most of the tests came back normal but there was a small spike in something with my liver which was normal before. My Cholesterol was LDL 95 HDL 109 (which I thought it is advertised to raise?) and my triglycerides were great as well. I can't say that the drug doesn't work but compared to how I feel it's not with it and I'll never take it again. I've been off it for 3 days now and only feel slightly bett | M | 38 | 2.5 months | 8/14/2007 | 5 | hyperlipidemia | Mild muscle pain. | Tried Crestor and generic Zocor and couldn't tolerate the side effects. Started Lipitor and after 6 weeks my blood work showed great improvement. Total was 251-now 156. LDL was 176-now 91. HDL is now 51. Triglycerides were 96-now 69. Very glad I gave Lipitor a try. | F | 48 | 2 months 10mg 1X day | 11/11/2010 | 3 | High cholesterol | Rhabdomyolysis; CPK spike to 57,000 (normal range 60-190); extreme pain in thigh muscles to the point of not being able to walk. Day and a half hospital stay; no apparent lasting kidney or liver problems. Been one month since acute onset pain and am recovering. Levels almost normal; muscles in entire body stiff and slightly sore; will be going for some physical therapy. | Lipitor was very effective in lowering my | F | 35 | 2 months | 7/27/2005 |