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| 3 | high cholesterol | I have been on Lipitor for over a year and it did lower my cholesterol from 299 to 220, but I, too, have been having side effects, I guess now, that might be attributed to Lipitor. I have this weird dizzy/vertigo/un-balanced-type feeling sometimes. It is a feeling like I need to hold on to something, in order to make my walk across a large area, like an airport. (I fly alot, so I walk throught a lot of airports.) I also have a lot of problems with frequent bowel movements. I also have arthritic knees, hands that are numb and tingling at times. I think since being on this drug, my arms are always falling asleep while I'm sleeping. I don't know whether all this is related to being on Lipitor, but after reading some of this posts on this site, it is beginning to make me wonder! | M | 38 | 1.5 years | 6/14/2006 | 1 | STATIN DRUG DAMAGE CLAIM Last week two personal injury lawsuits were filed against Pfizer Inc., the manufacturer of the cholesterol-lowering drug, Lipitor. http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060608/nyth079a.html?.v=2 If you have taken Lipitor or any other cholesterol-lowering drug (statin), believe that you suffered serious side effects as a result and feel that you were not informed adequately about these risks, please respond promptly with the following information: First name: Last name: Street address: City: State: Zip Code: Country: E-mail: Telephone Day / Evening: Age: Male / Female: Name of statin used: ( Lipitor, Zocor, Crestor, Mevacor, Pravachol, Lescol or Vytorin) Date statin started: Date symptoms began: Date statin stopped: Describe any changes in the type of statin taken: Brief description of your symptoms (fifty words or less): Were your symptoms primarily memory loss/confusion, muscle aches and pain, loss of ne | | 6/14/2006 | 1 | Cholesterol | Fuzzy thinking, blurred vision, muscle/foot pain | DO NOT TAKE THIS MEDICATION. Look for natural remedies instead such as Red Yeast Rice supplements and eating healthier. Doctors should tell us about all the natural things to try first before turning to big drug companies! The drugs will kill you quicker than the original problem if you're not careful! | F | 39 | 1 months | 6/11/2006 | 4 | high cholesterol | I'm not sure if this is related to the lipitor, but shortly after I started taking it, I exprienced complete paralysis in my forehead (peripheral neuropathy). Went to a neurologist,GP and ENT, none of whom have ever seen this kind of paralysis (both sides) with no other symptoms. Has any one else come across this symptom? I"m tempted to go off the medicine to see if the paralysis goes away. | It really lowered my cholestrol a lot, so I hope this problem isn;t related. | F | 44 | 4 months | 6/9/2006 | 4 | high cholesterol | I'm not sure if this is related to the lipitor, but shortly after I started taking it, I exprienced complete paralysis in my forehead (peripheral neuropathy). Went to a neurologist,GP and ENT, none of whom have ever seen this kind of paralysis (both sides) with no other symptoms. Has any one else come across this symptom? I"m tempted to go off the medicine to see if the paralysis goes away. | It really lowered my cholestrol a lot, so I hope this problem isn;t related. | F | 44 | 4 months | 6/9/2006 | 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 | 5 | High cholesterol | For the most part, no side effects. Some gas early on, which has subsided. I do have some weight around the middle which I wasn't noticing so much before, but this may be due to fact I'm now in my early 40's. I've started exercising/dieting more and lost 15 pounds in last month, but not around the middle much. Some darkness in urine, but I think it's due to not enough fluids. Nonetheless, I'm very happy with the drug. | Went from 341 to 220 using 20mgs despite the fact I wasn't dieting as much as I should have been. Now on 40mg but am eating more healthy and will have blood checked soon. Am hoping to go back to 20mg, though I have not seen any difference symptom-wise between 20 and 40. I lost an older brother to a heart attack last year and everyone at the funeral said he had STOPPED taking his Lipitor! I won't make same mistake. | M | 43 | 18 months | 6/4/2006 | 2 | Bad family history | Severe pain in right heel and related tendons. Muscle cramping in left lower leg. Took 10 mg daily for four months, then finally had to stop due to inablity to walk down stairs due to the pain (I am 41, and run a 5k every day, so this should not be the case). Under doctor's orders am to wait for full muscle recovery, then try again at 1/2 dosage... if pain returns I will have to seek other alternatives besides Lipitor. | The drug did knock my cholesteral down by 55%, so I have motivation to try and make it work. | M | 41 | 4 months | 6/4/2006 | 2 | High Cholestreol | After 3 years, I have very painful muscle aches in the neck and back, pain in my knee, severe headaches (getting worse), pain in leg muscles. | Interestingly, my new doc took me off lipitor a week ago. I thought I had a severe medical problem like fibromyalgia, brain tumor, etc. Within this week, a lot of my muscle pain has gone away. The tightening of neck muscles was causing headaches. I am now headache free!! Hope I continue to improve---will have to now address cholesterol as it worked wonders with that. | F | 52 | 3 years | 6/3/2006 | 1 | HIGH cholesterol and LDL | I have been on Lipitor 40mg. for 2 years...GREAT results. Went from 256 to 135 and LDL from 201 to 65...In the past 3 weeks, I have been experiancing TERRIBLE abdominal pain, shortness of breath, and EXTREME muscle pains..I'm a pharmacist, so I know all to well what these side effects are from...I've stopped taking it, but the effects are a slow go...I would NOT reccomend lipitor to anyone. | F | 33 | 2 years | 6/3/2006 | 1 | High Colesterol | Live damage of 80-90% as od 5-31-06. I'm in the hospital waiting a liver transplant after taking this drug for only 2 months. | F | 61 | 60 months | 5/31/2006 | 4 | hypercholesterolemia | Left shoulder pain and right hip and muscle pain over 3 weeks | I'm a physician and initially figured the pain was sports related (although being right handed, I was suspicious about the unilateral left shoulder pain). I stuck it out for 3 weeks until I had a significant limp. Then stopped Lipitor 3 days ago and noticed a very significant mitigation of the pain - about 80% resolved already. The drug worked wonders on cholesterol (down 80 in 4 months), but I'll be starting an alternative shortly. | M | 45 | 4 months | 5/30/2006 | 1 | had a heart-attack in Jan. 06 | it will kill some people | M | 61 | 3 years | 5/29/2006 | 1 | cholesterol | I was a vibrant healthy woman until Easter Saturday, 2006. On Easter Sunday my ankles, feet, wrists, and knees seized up. | I am now off Lipitor and I am assured that I will make a full recovery within six months. I shuffle when I walk and I am only just coping. I am not quite a vegetable, but not far off. I started using the drug in Sept. 2005. In October/November I noticed my hands were nowhere near as strong as they once were - thought it was old age. I also had a strange senistivity in the palms and soles of my feet, also in my scalp - it was uncomfortable blowing my hair dry. It was not a tingling, just a sensitivity. In November, I was running, and my feet felt like led - thought it was old age. In December, my ankles started aching - gee, am I getting old! In January, I started to go to the gym, and I think that this is where my problems really started. My already over-streesed muscles, over a short period of time, went into meltdown. This drug is a terrible, terrible drug and should not be prescribed for anyone. | F | 54 | 7 months | 5/29/2006 | 5 | Total cholesterol | Always very fatigued and sleepy immediately after taking the drug almost like a sleeping pill causes. So I take it before going to sleep. Strange type food cravings e.g. rich fatty foods like cheese, peanut butter, mayo, eggs, and hot sauce or salt cravings too, and I’m not overweight or pregnant either. Periodic or sporadic lower abdominal cramping without the gas and thigh soreness. | Works wonders on my bad cholesterol and tri's but now my good cholesterol is whacked, lowered. Ratio is also a lot better but the lowering of my good cholesterol has my doctor thinking I need yet another drug to bring good cholesterol back up. | M | 39 | 12 months | 5/25/2006 | 1 | High Cholesterol | Massive hair loss, extreme joint stiffness (esp in my right knee - it would just lock-up), heart palpitations, heavy depression, skin and eyes swollen and itching. I have taken it for a long time and only in the last year have these symptoms occurred - perhaps these are long-term usage effects. | I don't know why this drug is even being allowed to be sold! | F | 70 | 7 years | 5/21/2006 | 1 | high cholesterol | took Lipitor for over a year with no negative effects, then gradually developed terrible joint pain, couldn't move shoulders, hips hurt, had to push out of chair like old person | stopped taking it after almost 2 years; it really lowered cholesterol, but at cost of terrible joint pain, loss of sleep, shoulder and hip pain and loss of range of motion. Stopped, and pains lessened in one week; took months for it all to go away | F | 61 | | 5/20/2006 | 4 | M | 60 | 4 years | 5/17/2006 | 1 | cholesterol | On the third day taking just 5mg, stomach cramps and loose stools set in. Gas, bloating and fatigue followed. Just wanted to sleep. Couldn't exercise or eat. Started using anti-acids for the first time in 15 years. Three weeks after quitting the drug, the symptoms persist. I am 41, male, taking no meds (except 72 hours of Lipitor), with no history of smoking, diabetes, etc. This drug (or class of drugs) is potentially very nasty. | M | 41 | 3 days | 5/17/2006 | 3 | cholesterol 250+ | Bloating - GI difficulties, added weight, weakened muscle noticed in arms but not legs | Prescribed 20 mg Lipitor for cholesterol. Took liver test (ok I guess - no response from doctor). Took 25 days and decided otherwise. Will go back to herbal and vitamin sources. Don't trust side effects especially memory difficulties and muscle-joint degeneration that some researchers say. | M | 56 | 25 days | 5/15/2006 |