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 |
| 3 | High cholesteral, low HDL | I was on 5mg - cut a 10mg pill in half. After about 2 weeks taking it I woke up with leg cramps. During the day if I squatted (e.g. in the garden) or tried to get on a ladder I got foot/leg cramps. I mentioned it to my doctor who said "it couldn't possibly be related to the Lipitor". It kept getting worse and worse - legs began feeling very tired, couldn't go up stairs easily, had cramping events in my legs 3-4 times a day. I took 5mg/day of Lipitor for a year but finally quit as my legs were hurting too much. Most cramping stopped within a couple of days but there was a long tail - it has only been in the last two years that all cramping stopped (having been off since 2005). It did help get my TC down to 180 from 220, and my HDL to 70-90 frum 30. My legs are still very weak even now - but they don't cramp. My physician said it was all in my head. | F | 53 | 365 days | 6/30/2009 | 1 | High Cholesterol | Muscle and joint pain developed after approx 12 months. Began to spread to legs, buttocks, elbow. Stopped taking 10mg / day dosage on march 17th, will hope I start to feel positive results | Doctor had my on Lipitor and Tricor which seems to increase the chances of side effects. This is very scary, thought I had some type of bone cancer. Will never take this drug again | M | 41 | 365 days | 3/21/2005 | 1 | High Cholesterol | Loss of Vison. Was off for four days then My vision cleared up, but has been damaged. | Others that I have talked to have leg muscle and thigh problems that go up to their waist. | M | 67 | 365 days | 12/5/2006 | 1 | Cholesterol | 365 days | 12/9/2004 | 5 | Congestive Heart Failure/Renal Fail | none | My doctor switched me from Pravachol to Lipitor almost a year ago because of a study that was done in CHF patients and when Lipitor was used, hospitalizations were cut almost in half. Normally I have to go into the hospital a minimum of 2 times a year. Since I started taking Lipitor, I have not been in the hospital even once! Also, he also told me that Lipitor was better for my kidneys than the statins. | M | 82 | 300 days | 3/20/2008 | 4 | very high cholesterol | None noticable | M | 51 | 180 days | 5/10/2002 | 3 | lower cholesterol | tingling extremities bruising insomnia | M | 48 | 180 days | 7/25/2005 | 1 | high cholesterol | incredible depression almost immediately after I started taking it. crying all the time, not sleeping, reliving of past terrible events that had occurred in my life, like someone pushing a doorbell and holding it to keep ringing and reliving all the terrible negative things in my life over and over again. I kept asking my doctor if there were any side effects like mine and he said no. I had been taking zocor with no problem but insurance company wouldn't pay for it anymore and made me go on lipitor. After about six months I had my docteor write a letter to ins. co. saying I couldn't take lipitor and they agreed to put me back on zocor. But the long term effect of those six months sent me into a psyhcological tailspin that I never recovered from. I went to three psychiatrist and they finally came up with a diagnoses of bipolar disorder. Cause unknown. This was three years ago. The drug ruined my life, I am now seperated after this all occurred and before the lipitor I was an energtic happy family man with a great wife and two kids. | I know it was the lipitor because the only other medication I take is an aspirin once a day. | M | 54 | 180 days | 12/21/2004 | 1 | high cholesterol | Aching weakness in legs back and shoulders. Side effects subsided after lipitor stopped. | The drug is toxic and will probably kill you before the high cholesterol will. | M | 50 | 180 days | 4/10/2005 | 1 | high cholesterol | weight gain, confusion, depression | STOP Taking LIPITOR. This drug will hurt you more than help you. Pfizer should be sued. | F | 51 | 180 days | 6/14/2004 | 1 | high cholestrol | Woke up one morning and could not walk! Severe leg and hip pain! | I almost bought a wheelchair! Two weeks in hell before I figured it out! | F | 65 | 180 days 20 mg 1X day | 3/13/2020 | 1 | high cholesterol | Mostly Pain, Pain, Pain. Deep throbbing pain in my joints and muscles. Hair loss, insomnia, tinnitus, dysphagia. Neurologist diagnosed me with MS. Feet hurt so badly, I could not walk. The prescribing physician shrugged off my complaints. I stopped taking Lipitor when I went into a coma in June 2000. It took me 12 years to recover. | Lipitor created the same problems that Zocor had caused. I took for Zocor for six years. The prescribing physician ignored my complaints. This nightmare took 20 years out of my life. I kept detailed records. You can see a summary here: http://morleyevans2.com/Depraved/Depraved.html I got better. Please contact me at [email protected] if you need help. | M | 65 | 135 days 10 mg 1X day | 7/27/2012 | 3 | Cholesterol | Knee and hip joint pain. Had experienced knee joint pain in past, but never hip. stopped taking lipitor ten days ago; joint symptoms were gone within four days for first time in six weeks (been on it four months). Remaining issue is chest spasm -- have been through tests ruling out heart, GERD, pneumonia, etc. Spasms persist although less and less. Last 48 hours, epsiodes seemed to increase again but may be attributable to some combination of muscle weakness and heavy non-stop rains we've enjoyed for several days. Cholesterol news is great -- two days after I stopped, cholesterol was measured at 172 with excellent HDL, LDL and triglyceride levels -- down from 295 in May, consistent with the last ten years of cholesterol readings for me. Tests also showed no calcium build-up on my arteries one week ago. Was on a dose of 40 mg. Will see how muscle symptoms are in a month and try to resume at 10 mg. Does anyone know how long they think it should take symptoms to go away? | M | 49 | 120 days | 9/1/2001 | 3 | To lower cholestrol | On 10 mg. didnt seem to have any side effects and my cholestrol went from 256 to 190 in 30 days-I was amazed but then after another month my cholestrol went back up to 235 and my doctor decided to bump up my dose to 20 mg. thats when the severe muscle pain started and very debillitating-I went to a rheumotogologist thinking it was lupus or fibromalgyia as i felt like I always had the flu and she took a blood test and said I had muscle damage from the Lipitor. | Do the benefits outweigh the severe side effects-Pfizer says it's rare but serious side effects-I know many people that have had the same problem with muscle damage so I would not consider the side effect to be "rare" and now since I'm off the drug wonder how much permanent damage to my muscles is their due to this awful drug | F | 48 | 120 days | 12/31/2007 | 1 | high chlorestrol | My fingers swelled up and hurt. I thought I had gout or arthritis. My joints in my hands hurt. My knee hurt. It hurt to bend my knee. | I took 10 mg. each day for 120 days. I stopped taking lipitor now for 40 days and joint pain is slowly improving and not as bad. I have lost trust in most doctors. they are only doing what they know, which is very little. there are natural remedies, such as niacin, walnuts, flaxseed, oat bran, just to name a few. | M | 54 | 120 days | 5/19/2005 | 4 | after I had been on it for 3 months,started breaking out in blisters,and my face looked like it was on fire.the dr took me off of it.but it helped my cholestrol | F | 70 | 90 days | 1/4/2005 | 4 | cholesterol | very persistent dry skin spots especially on my legs. Some leg pains at first, reduced with time. small amounts of gas, but almost constantly | M | 64 | 90 days | 2/25/2007 | 1 | high ldl/triglycerides | this was the last shot at using a statin to reduce cholesterol ldl. I have tried all the statin drugs, you know the very expensive drug of choice for all the doc's out there... For all of you who now have extremely low LDL and a bad case of joint pain to the extent that it is very arthritic or having bad muscle cramps that you never got prior to the drug, it is from the statins. The drug is able to decrease LDL through a mechanism which also destroys and depletes your bodies ability to make CoQ10. This is necessary for they health of muscles and joints (that's why you are experiencing the joint pains and numbness). Remember your heart is a muscle, guess what is happening to it with the depletion of the CoQ10??? If you do some research on the internet, you will find that all these statins make no claims/nor have studies shown them to reduce heart attacks, but they cause muscle problems i.e. your heart, this is based on the fact that they put younger and younger people on these drugs and | I would recommend that you do your own research versus just listening to the doctor who wants your LDL down to like below 130, neurosurgeons, who have studied this would tell you not to get it all too low. And just because your test come back and show your liver functions are fine and don't show any broken down muscle toxins in the blood doesn't mean the lack of CoQ10 isn't breaking down and damaging your muscles very slowly. Mine always showed fine and I had severe arthritis symptoms in knees and hip joints (never had this in my life before statins) and bad muscle cramps (also never got those until statins). Granted is you have high blood pressure, high LDL, over weight and maybe smoke, then you probably need something to lower the LDL, if you only have high LDL, you don't. Read the drug company studies, they even say it may help prevent a heart attack when you have 3 of the aforementioned risk factors. | M | 44 | 90 days | 1/30/2007 | 1 | To lower cholesterol | skipping heart beats, fast and slow heartbeat, leg pain, chest pain, extreme tiredness, depression, severe arrythmias. | Went to emergency room with severe irregular heartbeat. Stayed in hospital 2 days, nothing was diagnosed. Went to cardiologist after release, he took me off of Lipitor. All side effects disappeared within 2 or 3 days. I have severe heart disease. | M | 72 | 90 days | 3/30/2004 | 1 | Cholesterol | After about a month my extremities felt like they were dissolving. Had terrible leg and foot pains and muscle tiredness. I lost most energy due to most muscles feeling so weak. Stopping medicine has helped relieve side effects but not completely. | Had not tried lower dosages (below 20 MG). | M | 52 | 90 days 20-40 mg 1X day | 11/11/2013 |