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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR LIPITOR | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 5 | high cholesterol | Sweets | F | 57 | 1 months 80 | 4/13/2015 | 1 | heart attack | My cardiologist put me on Lipitor after my heart attack, 40mg a day.I developed shoulder and chest pains on my left side, horrible acid reflux, and gas pains. They did a stress test on me and found that my heart was not the problem.I stopped taking the Lipitor for a few days and the pain and stomach problems eased up. I tried Crestor too the pain was worse. Because of my heart attack they want me on the stronger statin. I now take it twice a week without my doctors permission. I figure some of it is better than none of it. They even tried lowering the dose to 20mg a day. That did not help either. I wish I could take it like I am supposed to because it makes deadly plaque adhere to the artery wall. | F | 45 | 2 months 40mg | 4/13/2015 | 3 | reduce blood cleslestral | It effects my short term memory And now my Dr. says I'm prediebetic. | It does it's job but the side effects out weights the good. | M | 57 | 1 years | 4/3/2015 | 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 cholesterol | I would wake up in the morning with puffy eyes. They felt like if I was holding an ounce of water in each eye. Heavy feeling | Tried Prevacid, and had the same problems | F | 56 | 1 weeks 10 mg | 3/30/2015 | 1 | High Cholesterol | Body jerking all night,swelled tongue, throat closing up and flushing of face. | I get attacks about 30 min after taking this. Feels like I am going to pass out with flushing swelling of tongue and throat closing. Now and then diarrhea. Stopping it now to see if symptoms go away. | M | 64 | 1 years 20mg | 3/21/2015 | 4 | Hyperlipidemia | Everything listed on leaflet and then some more. | Just wanted to mention that the fuzzy brain stopped when I stopped taking Fluoxetine (Prozac) together with this statin. And found quite by accident that Thiazide morning and night neutralized some of the side effects, and greatly eased the muscle pain and excrutiating lower leg pain, numbness and burning. Thiazide was added to lower blood pressure and turned out to be salvation. Have to use statin because of light stroke and family history of high cholesterol and heart attacks at early age. Incredibly sensitive to medication side effects, cannot tolerate higher dose, but totally worth it if it means I won't become an invalid and burden to my children. | F | 48 | 11 years 20 1X day | 3/17/2015 | 1 | family history of heart disease | I was healthy and walked 4 miles a day. My brother had sudden triple heart surgery, so my Doctor said with close relative and my very slight elevated cholesterol she believed I should start Lipitor.The first week I developed constipation, and then hemorrhoids. Then started having lower back pains. Dizzy spells, couldn't catch my breath.Then one day on my walk my chest started hurting very bad, I would stop and take deep breaths. I finally made it home, but continued with chest pains. Went to E.R., they found no heart attack but recommended I see a cardiologist. In the mean time I tried walking and could not due to chest pains, and cannot sit due to lower back pains, my quality of life deteriorated in a few short weeks. 4 days ago I realized my troubles started when I started Lipitor. Stopped it cold turkey. Was able to take a 30 minute walk today, feeling much better. | I was being poisoned to death. I just hope I stopped soon enough. | F | 54 | 7 weeks 20mg | 3/15/2015 | 2 | Cholesterol-200 | Headache, hoarseness, and body pain | I had tried to take a month earlier and had quit after a few days because of headache. Not common for me to have. My doctor talked me into trying again. Have discontinued and symptoms have subsided | F | 75 | 10 days 40MG | 3/4/2015 | 1 | Elevated "bad" cholesterol | Extreme fatigue, loss of energy, upper back pain, morning lethargy, weakness in legs, feeling that legs cannot support my weight, vertigo, double vision, occasional vision blurring, especially when working on the computer. | I stopped taking the medication. Will discuss with my physician but I won't take statins again. I am not giving up physical exercise in order to continue on such controversial medication. | M | 65 | 90 days 10mg 1X day | 2/26/2015 | 1 | elevated cholesterol | extreme pain in hps, legs, back, and severe muscle cramps, bursitis. several months of physical therapy for deep muscle massage which was very painful, learning how to walk without a limp, and strengthening. not able to do simple household chores (dishes, laundry, etc). now have to wear a TENS unit for pain and have had steroid injections in hips for arthritis. | i've been off lipitor for 6 months and have made very slow progress. still recovering from muscle pain and weekness, taking joint supplments and fish oil to help alleviate joint pain and bursitis. still have difficulty walking and doing household chores. hoping next 6 months will see more improvement. | F | 41 | 1.5 years 40 mg 1X day | 2/19/2015 | 2 | High Colesterol | Well I already had arthritis in the hips, I had no idea that my sudden deteriation into a world of pain may have been due to this drug. But its a bit strange how it suddenly go so bad so quick. | So I spent $22k on arthropscopy on both hips, with mix results. Still getting a lot of pain. Just stopped taking the Lipitor 2 days ago. Lets see if the hips get better. | M | 48 | 8 months 10mg 1X day | 2/17/2015 | 1 | Cholesterol | SEVERE abdominal pain. | I was taking no other prescription drugs, healthy and active. After taking 1 Lipitor pill daily for 3-4 days, I was in the ER with severe abdominal pain. The ER did an EKG, Ultra Sound and CAT scan. They gave me morphine in a drip and had me drink a mixture of Maalox and Lidocaine to deaden my stomach, which took care of the pain. I was sent home with Hydrocodone and Protonix and stopped the Lipitor. In the next week I visited several Doctors. Since they have found no other reason for it, their opinion is that my episode was a reaction to the Lipitor. Beware. | F | 67 | 4 days 10MG 1X day | 2/16/2015 | 3 | Extremely high Chol and Trig | Extreme fatigue, myalgia and neuropathy (generalized). there are days that every inch of my skin feels on fire. I don't know if this is from the atorvastatin or other meds that I take but I have noticed it more frequently since starting the statin. Other meds I take CAN potentiate the effect of the statin so it may be possible but since I'm taking the least dose of atorvastatin it is questionable. My total cholesterol is 578, my Triglycerides are 3566 (not a typo) so I am also on a Fenofibrate which may also be contributing. I don't feel I have an option with numbers this high, I've got to get them down to acceptable limits, I'm too young to have a CVA or MI. | M | 55 | 30 days 10 1X day | 1/22/2015 | 1 | High cholesterol | Muscle pain, flu like symptoms, extreme fatigue and exhaustion. Could hardly walk, blisters on toes. Felt like I was 80 years old and I'm only 41, I'll take my chances & change my eating habits! | M | 41 | 3 weeks 20 Mg 1X day | 12/25/2014 | 3 | to lower cholesterol | bruising on legs, difficulty urinating, extreme exhaustion, vertigo | F | 31 | 30 days 10mg 1X day | 12/17/2014 | 1 | to lower cholesterol | Extreme, debilitating sciatica-like pain in buttocks, thighs and calves that made me unable to walk. At the outset, had flu symptoms that went away; middle right finger began to 'lock,' requiring manual adjustment. Once I made the causal connection I stopped the drug (this is my second day off) and informed my doctor. He was surprised and suggested other causal possibilities, to which I attach little credence. No more Lipitor for me; I'd rather live with the cholesterol, which is slightly elevated, but not high. | M | 72 | 2 months 10 MG 1X day | 12/16/2014 | 4 | 304 Cholesterol, 210 LDL | Cold feet all the time, fatigue, occasional diarrhea, and minor back-aches similar to "abdominal flu" symptoms, fast weight loss the first 4 days (10 lbs) though this could be more related to changing to a restrictive diet. No calf or leg cramping/pain noticed. | Worried about long terms effects so once I get my blood-work done again in a few months I hope my lifestyle changes will allow me to stop having to take meds. | M | 45 | 5 days 30 1X day | 11/21/2014 | 3 | to lower cholesterol | None | was diagnosed with small blockage in one coronary artery so doctor put me on this. Fortunately haven't had any of the side effects and it did crush my cholesterol numbers but only gave a 3 to warn people that you might be better off with CoQ10 and exercise, which i also do. Doctor wants me to take 40mg (a stout dose) but I only take 20mg because your body needs some cholesterol and the whole fat/chol. thing seems to be way over rated. Be carefull and do your research like you are right now! | M | 52 | 9 months 40mg 1X day | 11/7/2014 | 1 | Dr. wanted total chol. under 100 | Severe pain in right shoulder, which went away in 2 days after I stoopped the drug. | I react negatively to most prescription drugs, so I wanted to start with 1/2 dose and increase it if no reactions were noticed. Dr. insisted I take entire dose and then reduce it if I developed negative reaction. Why won't a doctor listen to a patient? I am still suffering side effects from another drug I took and quit over 10 years ago. | F | 73 | 2 months 10 1X day | 9/17/2014 |