LIPITOR Reviews (ATORVASTATIN CALCIUM)Average Rating: 1.9 (1279 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare LIPITOR with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR LIPITOR | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 2 | High Cholestrol | Brain fog and decreased cognitive skills. | Does wonders for reducing LDL Cholestrol. Short term memory and brain fog were brutal. Since I also have anxiety issues, I was not sure if Lipitor caused side effects. Stopped liptor and improved diet and memory improved. | M | 49 | 8 years | 12/27/2009 | 1 | High Cholesterol | Short term memory affected, loss of concentration levels, Dizzy, hightened Anxiety Levels,generaly feeling unwell like walking in a daze (Zombie like) Weakness in Leg Muscles. All of these where a gradual onset over time making it harder to identify the course | Terrible Medication! Ruined me every day quality of life! I was not surprised that many People reported similar and worst effects. Stay off it and find some other means to controll your cholesterol if you can. Big Money spinner for Lipitor who m ake Billions from it each year and it is making People quite sick. Naturepath for my options. | M | 54 | 3 years | 12/26/2009 | 1 | High Cholesterol | Severe leg pain and weakness, muscle cramps in legs, feet, arms, ribs, face. | I went from being a normal, active 46 year old male doing my job and normal activities of life until taking Lipitor. I took 20mg. for approximately 1 year, then started noticing the muscle problems so I discontinued it. That was about a year ago and I am still having severe pain and weakness in my muscles, especially the legs. I can barely make it up one flight of stairs to get to my office at work. Have no social activities now, can't even stand to fish anymore. I regret the day I ever took a statin drug and will warn everyone I talk to about the devastating effects of these drugs. | M | 47 | 12 months | 12/22/2009 | 1 | high cholesterol | sudden onset severe depression | It worked very well the first time it was prescribed and I lost 20 pounds using it with exercise and diet. When this medication was combined with a SSRI it failed to reduce my HDL cholesterol in a meaningful amount and it caused intense anxiety attacks and short periods of intense depression. | M | 26 | 8 months | 12/21/2009 | 1 | High Cholesterol | Initially there were no side effects. It took the better part of two years for them to start appearing. During that time, my "numbers" were doing great! But then, very gradually, things began to change. Fatigue was the first symptom for me. It hit hard! I was retireing at 9PM when it used to be 11:30. Then the muscle and joint pain kicked in. I felt much older than I was. My family noticed the short term memory loss before I did. It was very embarrasing for me. The blisterey rash on my arms and legs had me concerned even more. What was wrong with me? Is this what old age(62) should normally bring? When my vision became blurry, I started my search. That was in June of 2007. By August 07, I was off Lipitor for good. My cardiologist tried various substitutes without luck until we got to Simivastatin which seemed to work without the side effects. | M | 66 | 2.5 years | 12/21/2009 | 1 | high cholesterol | muscle aches in legs | I tried 10mg a day for 6 days but developed muscle pain in legs. Doctor is now putting me on 10mg once a week to see if I can "tolerate" that dosage. Thanks to all you guys for a heads-up on what can happen with this drug as it is nice not to be blindsided by the medical community. Thanks again to everybody who posts here!! | M | 52 | 6 days | 12/19/2009 | 1 | high cholesterol | headache, insomnia,sore hip(tightIT band), depression | had to stop taking it too many side affects, lowerd my cholesterol nicely but made me miserable with each passing month. | M | 60 | 8 months | 12/19/2009 | 3 | High Cholesterol | Severe foot pain. | F | 45 | 2 weeks | 12/17/2009 | 5 | High cholesterol due to diabetis 2 | This med worked wonders for me.Am only gratefull to the pharmaceutical company that makes it.My lipids are at normal level in the past 2 H1C tests.As adiabetic you are at higher risk for stroke and heart attack so taking Lipitor defininitely lowers the risk.No side effects. | Expensive medicine but luckily my insurance covers it. | F | 43 | 8 months | 12/15/2009 | 1 | High Cholesterol | Congestion, cough, elbows burning, right heel pain, loss of concentration. | I initially couldn't tell I was taking it. About two years ago I started waking up with significant congestion with clear phlem. Chest xray was clear. My doctor suspected allergies. Having 2 pets that seemed reasonable. About a year ago my elbows would burn like fire at times when I rested my arms on a surface. This would come and go. I also began having trouble focusing while reading and would skip around. Two months ago my right heel became painful for no reason. The more I walked on it the worse it felt. I switched shoes with no change. It hurt enough that I began to worry I might end up on disability if it got much worse. I was recently out of state for two weeks and still had congestion in spite of being in a totally different environment. That was when I suspected the Lipitor and did some research on line and saw matches with all of my symptoms. I immediately stopped it and the next morning the congestion was 80% less. I saw my doctor who agreed I need to stop it. He explained that there are a lot of side affects and there is no way to predict who will get which ones or when they will develop. The blood tests give a false sense of security since the results (like mine) can be normal yet other serious issues can develop. | M | 57 | 5 years | 12/15/2009 | 1 | high cholesterol due to diabetes | Dizziness,falls,poor memory,loss of fine motor skills,stiffness in legs, sore feet | I began having falls shortly after starting lipitor approx 5years ago.Had an EEG at that time with no abnormalities. Had another EEG 6months ago with Frontal Lobe abnormalities which I suspect is due to Lipitor. Started on 20mg and progressed to 80mg | F | 56 | 5 years | 12/11/2009 | 2 | cholesterol | pain in my legs,loss of sense of smell,increase appetite,headaches,extreme fatigued,tingling in my arms and legs | F | 49 | 3 weeks | 11/25/2009 | 1 | high cholesterol | Swollen and stiff knees and elbows, mental distress, others that I am now only becoming aware of after reading many of these others testimonials | After being on Lipitor for 2 years my knees and elbows were getting increasingly stiff and sore. I'm a painter by trade and largely attributed it to over use of my joints. Repetitive stress syndrome. I went to my doctor, he sent me to an arthritis specialist, I had x-rays...nothing was found. I felt like an old (older) man during this period, I thought I was finished in terms of my trade and the things I enjoy most, like hiking. My prescription of lipitor ran out a few months after these tests were done. I didn't bother refilling it right away and noticed my knees and elbows felt better. I renewed the prescription and no sooner had I started taking it again that I felt the stiff joints return. So I stopped taking it, the stiffness goes away, started again, stiffness returns. After telling my doctor this story, right away he says "oh yeah, that's probably right" Pardon!? So why didn't you mention that possibility before all the tests? (luckily since I live in Canada, these tests were all covered by our health care system) I didn't make the connection to lipitor earlier because stiff, swollen joints were not listed as one of the side effects. Sore muscles yes, stiff swollen joints, no. I can see the class action suits coming against Pfizer. | M | 53 | 2 days | 11/21/2009 | 1 | High Cholesterol | Was put on lipitor 3 months ago because of high cholesteral. Took for a month and seemed to have problems with feet, etc but kept taking. I had tests done after a month. My doctor sent a letter and said to cut the dose in half for a month and have tests again. After my second set of tests she called me and told me to go off completely. She said she realized that my cholesteral would go back up, but CPK is of concern. Was raised to mid 200's. After a month I went in and of course my cholesteral was back up and my CPK level was elevated to over 500. Now am having another blood test a week later. Not sure what it will show but I feel horrible. Tingly hands, terrible musche aches. She told me "no excercise" until we determine what the problem is with CPK level. My husband said my face looks puffy. My eyes hurt all the time. I look sickly. This is horrible. Never again! DON'T TAKE THIS!!!!!!! | F | 55 | 2 months | 11/18/2009 | 1 | Diabetes Diagnosis | Muscle/joint pains, gastric upsets, insomnia, memory loss, anxiety, frozen shoulder ..... to name but a few. | The medical profession should be made to advise patients more about the side-effects. Spotting them early can mean the difference between swift resolution or a lifetime of misery. | M | 53 | 6 years | 11/3/2009 | 1 | high cholesterol | muscle pain in back; insomnia | muscles on the sides of my back were constantly painful; I could not sleep even with ambien and melatonin. I only took it 9 days and it took a week for symptoms to gradually disappear | F | 60 | 9 days | 11/1/2009 | 2 | high cholesterol | Extreme tiredness, dizziness, memory loss, moody | F | 48 | 2 years | 10/1/2009 | 1 | high cholos. | leg pain, loss of memory, loss of libido and lack of sleep. | M | 72 | 6 days | 9/25/2009 | 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 | 1 | Reduce Cholesterol | I am the advocate for my father who took this drug for 8 months before he passed from an aggressive form of brain cancer in 2005. The patient data is reported for him by me. Briefly, my research during my advocacy efforts during his illness indicated that this drug may have contributed to the onset of his particular form of brain cancer (glial cell related cancer). That cancer was diagnosed 6 months after his initial Rx for Lipitor -- he died 2 months after his initial cancer diagnosis. There were no warning signs, deterioration was very fast and debilitating -- he was a "model" totally healthy individual by conventional medical standards. | My father was vibrant and could work any teen into the ground for a 75 year old, had great cholesterol numbers, but he was a cardiac patient. He and the cardiologist agreed to go to Lipitor to see if they could drive LDL below 100 (his lipid profile was very, very good by usual medical standards). I will say that there was no way any doctor could have known this would happen (my research showed that Lipitor could contribute to this cancer with prior risk factors for it which would have to have been environmental exposure and from what I know of my father's work history experience), but it would help if conventional medicine would listen to patients and their families about experiences that we all are reporting in places such as this. My father could not speak for himself as his form of brain cancer was so aggressive that he went from a totally normal guy walking with a cane from initial neurological damage at inital dx for brain cancer to bedridden, unable to speak, feed himself, do anything for himself in 10 days. Don't know if this will really help anybody -- but just please be cautious with Rx medicines and advocate for yourself; you may not know everthing, but you do know best about what you are experiencing with these Rxs.....keep doing your research, tell your doctor anything you find relevent about your life as it relates to Rxs you are given, and advocate hard for your quality of life. | M | 75 | 8 months | 9/19/2009 |