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 |
| 1 | High Cholesteral | Jaw,neck, low back and hip pains. Numbness/tingling in legs and arms. | Dr. changed first to Vytorin then Pravachol. Took about a month for the same symptoms to begin with Vytorin. The pravachol started the pains again in about 3 months. I stopped taking all statin drungs. Still hurting after 2 months of stopping. Be careful taking this drug. | M | 48 | 5 months | 12/19/2006 | 3 | High Cholesterol | Severe muscle cramps, charlie horse in my calves and feet so bad at night that it brings me out of bed screaming. Severe hip & feet pain and stiffness. Can't hardly walk when I first get up from sitting short periods or in the morning. Shoulder pain, tendonitis in my shoulders and elbows...etc. | It did lower my cholesterol but is not worth the side effects. I have stopped taking it and will just have to take my chances trying other things to lower cholesterol. | F | 55 | 2 years | 12/18/2006 | 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 | 1 | high cholesterol | zombie like tired depressed state,severe pain in calves total loss of support unable to walk,vertigo like attack, blured vision, no sex drive,decrease in balance | after going off it,significant spectacular improvement for 4 days on all symptons,slight continuing improvement in last 6 weeks, estimate 50 percent improvement over next 2 years,md's no help,act like they work for drug company not patient,this sight will save more lives and life than all statins combined,love your dotor, its just economic survival for him. | M | 73 | 5 years | 12/7/2006 | 1 | high col. | Severe back and neck pains that led to severe headaches. Stopped taking it after 3-4 weeks....since then it has cleared up. | M | 59 | 3 weeks | 12/5/2006 | 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 | High cholesterol | I developed constipation and flatulence, which I had rarely suffered from before taking Lipitor. I developed hemorrhoids and even after increasing fluids and correcting the constipation, they did not go away. After a year of taking Lipitor my urine started feeling as if it was corrosive when it touched my skin and I developed a rash that I could not get rid of. About a month ago, I started to get muscle problems in my legs that made it difficult for me to get up from a sitting position. I have also been experience tremendous neck pain in my shoulders that was causing severe headaches. After two weeks off Lipitor my rash and the hemorrhoids are gone. The weakness in my legs seems to have diminished somewhat in the last day or so, making it easier to get up from a sitting position. My neck is still a problem and has not really improved but I am hoping that it will get better over time. | F | 56 | 18 months | 12/4/2006 | 2 | elevated LDL | Sudden, very severe urinary tract infections. | It took me 8 years to figure out why I was getting these very sudden and very severe infections every 3 - 5 months. WHen I stopped taking Lipitor, the infections stopped, too. | F | 58 | 8 years | 11/30/2006 | 2 | High Cholesterol | Very sore and achy joints, especially ankles and knees. Mild headache that rarely goes away. Feel foggy like in a slight daze. Many muscle cramps in legs and left arm. Muscle spasms all the time especially right leg constantly feels like a buzzing sensation all over it. The spasms rarely go away as muscles are constantly quivering - more at night time. Makes me restless at night and hard to sleep. | I have only been on Lipitor for 3 weeks so I don't know how it has worked on my cholesterol but the muscle cramps,spasms, and joint pain are soon going to force me from taking the drug. | M | 39 | 21 days | 11/29/2006 | 1 | High Cholesterol | Weak legs, lack of concentration, slurred speach, loss of balance and loss of short term memory. | I spent 2 days in the hospital because I could'nt talk without slurring my words, I could'nt concentrate and could'nt walk more than a few minutes without feeling weak. I have been off Lipitor for 2 months now and still get sore and weak legs and can barely remember anything that has happened recently :(. If you are over 50 it is better to have high cholesterol than too low!! Check this site for more Lipitor horror stories. newmediaexplorer.org /sepp/2004/01/31/lipitor_the_human_cost.htm | M | 52 | 6 weeks | 11/29/2006 | 1 | Reduce cholesterol after a heart at | Initially minor muscle pain but thought it was due to my working out. After two years of use - SEVERE muscle pain in sholder and hip joints - random fluish feeling (minor muscle achs all over)- random low energy. | Within two weeks of this sudden increase in pain, I was waking me up at night in pain. Pain immediately declined within a few days of stopping lipitor. Won't touch it. I don't know how long it will take for my muscles to heal now. | M | 48 | 2 times | 11/27/2006 | 1 | high cloresterol | fatigue and extremely high sleep requirement,pain and loss of support in calf musells, unable to walk,vertigo like attacks at night while in bed, loss of any sex drive(not complaining),ability to think ahead improving, | add on to 11/8/2006 report, been off lipitor for about 27 days sleep requirement went from 14 hrs to 8 ,still some fatique leg support weak but able to walk general mussel weakness persists with mild improvement,vertigo decreased no attacks balance not as good as it use to be, hope some more of my energy returns, exercise sessions indicate a recovery to 29% from 5% relating to pre attack exercise levels | M | 73 | 4 years | 11/23/2006 | 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 | 5 | cholesterol control | none | M | 8 years | 11/19/2006 | 4 | lower cholesterol | Not sure--I'm taking several medications so I don't know if the others may cause some minor side effects. | 10 mg dosage lowered cholesterol from 170 to 31 from July to Nov 06! I did change my diet also from almost no beef to almost entirely chicken and avoided butters/margerines. I am now on 5mg dosage and niaspan to raise HDL. | M | 47 | 4 months | 11/19/2006 | 1 | high cholesterol | involuntary movements,muscles aches specially in back of legs, muscle weakness,, knee pain, neck pain,headaches,concentrating, blurred vision,back pain,difficulty to walk,I stop it since 10 days but i don t fell better do u know how long it take to be better? and what is possible to do? hope to have answer | 8 mois lipitor 40 mg | M | 43 | 8 months | 11/19/2006 | 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 | 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 |