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 |
| 3 | high cholesterol | Increased from 20 - 40 mg. three months ago. Right elbow just last week became very painful - joint pain. Also, started to have upper and lower back discomfort and trouble sleeping. Bloated and gassy. Blurred vision problems occasionally. I did not connect all the dots until I started searching the web for side effects. I'm seeing my doctor today and looking into natural cures - 3000 to 6000 mg. Vitamin C daily, Lysine, Vitamins A & E. Read about Dr. Linus Pauling on-line and his findings about Vitamin C. He won a Nobel Prize for his research. | Reduced choloesterol levels significantly but side effects are not worth it. I like to have a glass of wine with my dinner but with this drug, I'm concerned in addition to the side effects I've just started experiencing. | F | 51 | 3 weeks | 1/3/2006 | 1 | High cholesterol | Started out with fatigue/depression and was diagnosed with fibromalgia. Then came the extreme knee pain followed by hip pain. On top of this perpetual pain, I started having the irritable colon acompanied by three years of diarrhea that was diagnosed as colitis. I recently was totally dibilitated by swelling and pain in my hands. My family convince me to stop takng the Lipitor after my daughter found this site and after 4 DAYS - no swelling and the pain has subsided!!! I am interested in trying some of the natural options stated in this site to see if I can control my cholesterol (270 at the highest. Thanks to everyone who has "enlighted" me!!! | Time for the government to look into this drug. Don't you think it is interesting that the medical field has recommended that your cholesterol should now be 170 when just a few years ago 200 was good enough??!! Sounds as though the phamacuticals companies need to sell more statins.... | M | 73 | 8 years | 1/1/2006 | 1 | High Cholesterol | After taking drug for 10 days, I noticed a complete loss of taste for salt and sugars. Good food tasted bad or no taste at all. "Taste perversion" seems to be the term. Breathing air tastes sweet. It has taken 8 months for my taste to return to normal. | Would not recommend it. | M | 58 | 10 days | 12/29/2005 | 3 | hyperlipidemia | lethargy and leg soreness | M | 51 | 2 years | 12/28/2005 | 3 | High Cholesterol | Muscle twitching, stiff neck, constant lightheadedness, always worrying about a brain tumor or something. I found this site and it looks like my problems may be the Lipitor. Doctor refering me to a nuerologist for twitching and light head. will ask about possibility of Lipitor. | Lowered my Cholesterol from 255 to 173. | M | 29 | 1.5 years | 12/28/2005 | 1 | high LDL | The worst gas I've ever experienced! I mean smelly and painfull! Diarhea, headache, backache, runny nose. 1 week on 40mg. Am stopping it now before anything else happens! | Why did my doctor start me on such a high dose? No warning of these side effects- I mean the gas and bloat is so bad I can't go to work. | F | 52 | 7 days | 12/28/2005 | 4 | M | 38 | 2 years | 12/24/2005 | 2 | high cholesterol | I've been taking LIPITOR for a few years (had been on Baycol),. a couple of years ago, I began experiencing increasing joint and muscle pain that is now so severe that I am wodering if it's worth living with such pain. I'm very depressed. The pain is often so severe that it limits my ability to walk and climb stairs, to lift anything heavier than a few pounds. I've had some excruciating thigh cramps, and more recently, I have noticed a generalized weakness all over my body. It scares me to stop taking some statin drug because my cholesterol was very high without them, but my quality of life is so drastically affected that I think I have to. | I believe it's very dangerous stuff. | F | 65 | 3 years | 12/21/2005 | 2 | Lower Cholesterol | Having been on Lipitor for over one year, with a modest reduction in cholesterol levels, I developed a severe reaction following shoulder surgery. Approximately 4 months following my surgery, I developed an abrupt and chronic pain in my arms, hands and the back of my upper legs (from buttocks to knees). After two MRI's and EMG and blood and urine analyisis reviewed by a Neurologist with negative and/or normal results, I self-diagnosed having read numerous patient complaints mirroring my symptoms and reading a cautionary warning to physicians to consider taking their patients off Lipitor when the patient was scheduled for major surgery (www.drug.com). My Neurologist has prescribed Prednisone 10mg to help with the symptoms. I am trying to limit my use of the Predisone but cannot take care of basic functions without a minimum of 10mg daily. As a CEO of a large sales company and a physcially active person, I'm extremely concerned about this chronic condition. I have been off Lipitor f | M | 57 | 16 months | 12/17/2005 | 1 | after heart attack | Tingling all over my body and numbness | F | 46 | | 12/9/2005 | 4 | Cholesterol | Absent mindendness, trouble concentrating, blurred vision, headaches | I am satisfied as the drug has been hugely successful on my Cholesterol levels. However, I am posting this due to my side effects which I have linked to the drug. | M | 42 | 3 years | 12/5/2005 | 1 | High cholesterol | Did not help to lower my cholesterol, 55 put on 60 pounds. Will die on this medication - all my symptons on your site - hubby will get off as well (he's having eye problems). I have the rash on the forehead, insomnia (big time), sweats (so severe), difficulty breathing (huge athlete before all of this) - but no matter what I did - weight increased - huge bloating of stomach and difficulty breathing. Rashes on arms and legs as well. Tightness of throat at night (choking easily all the time - especially on crackers). Pravachol was the worst - or so I thought until I read all of this. My muscles have diminished greatly. Thanks 4 all of your input. (Also very aggitated and easily excited). | F | 4 years | 12/5/2005 | 1 | High Chlosteral | Spleen Cancer and ALS patient | Took this drug for three years right after it was released -- bottom line lost all ability to control hands and muscle weakness. There is no history of ALS in my family. Currently being treated at Duke Medical Center. | F | 68 | 3 years | 12/5/2005 | 2 | High Cholesterol | SEVERE AND UNCHARACTERISTIC DEPRESSION, ANXIETY, AGGRESSION, AND MOOD SWINGS. I cannot stress this enough- my personality comepletely changed after beginning this medication. I am typically an easy going, positively thinking, emotionally stable, and motivated person. But after starting Lipitor I've gradually descended into a world of extreme anxiety, hopelessness, lonliness, and self loathing. I've never in my life been so depressed, so obsessively focused on morbid, terrifying thoughts, or so negative about everything in my life. After being off of this medication for only 48 hours, I am already beginning to see an improvement in my moods, but this will be a long journey back to my old self, I feel. Oh yes, and I also suffered from: Gas, Constipation, EXTREME FATIGUE, weight gain and bloating, and occassional bouts of diaharrea. It lowered my cholesterol, to be sure.... But it also significantly lowered my quality of life. | This website has been an absolute lifeline for me. My doctor had seemed so completely unwilling to accept that my symptoms could've possibly been related to my taking Lipitor. However, I know my body and know when things are not as they should be. I have been feeling this way since almost immediately after I took my first dose. Hearing that so many other people have experienced the same exact symptoms as me has given me the courage needed to STOP this medication. So many of my family members and friends have had bad reactions to this stuff- I can not trust it, and will be looking for another way to get my cholesterol under control, if possible. Be very careful and very informed before you start any new medication. Don't always trust the word of your doctor as "the only word" and take it at its face value. When it comes to your body, you have every right to dictate, understand, and call the shots about what does and does not go in to it. | F | 22 | 8.5 months | 12/3/2005 | 5 | High Cholesterol | None | Very effective. Lowered cholesterol from 230 to 160 | M | 45 | 2 years | 11/20/2005 | 1 | high cholesterol | Big problems with muscle cramps and numbness in my legs progressing to difficulty walking up stairs and swollen feet and ankles. Some of this could be other meds or combinations but I didn't have these problems before starting Lipitor. | Statins are supposed to be the new miracle drug to keep us all alive for years longer. What a joke. Who would want to live like this? I have been off all my meds for about a week and feeling much better. I know it's dangerous but so are the drugs. | F | 60 | 5 months | 11/19/2005 | 1 | cholesterol | pain in shoulder and arm, could not lift arm and had only been taking for 2 weeks. Could not sleep because of pain! | Don't recommend at all. I recommend omega 3 and coq10. cholesterol levels went down 100 points with that alone. finally 4 months later my pain has subsided. | M | 72 | 14 days | 11/19/2005 | 4 | Reduce Cholesterol | Immediatly reduced my cholesterol. Over the 12 years my health has weakened in many ways that I noticed some of you other posters have mentioned. Is it because we are aging? Or the drug? Symptoms... here goes. Depression. Back surgery but the afterpain was unexplained? Maybe Lipitor? Hips are sore and lower back pain. Vision reduced greatly. Hair loss. Tired most of the time. Can't get to sleep and then can't get out of bed till late morning or midday. No strength. Loss of breath. | So if a person goes off this, what is the drug alternative to keeping the cholesterol down? I am thinking of stopping the lipitor and going on a diet to prevent the cholesterol from rising. Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Good luck to you all. | M | 53 | 13 years | 11/18/2005 | 3 | cholesterol | general weakness, decreased stamina | M | 42 | 3 months | 11/17/2005 | 1 | cholesterol 240 | general weakness, reduced stamina, tennis elbow in both hands | should only be taken by people with 300+ levels | M | 42 | 3 months | 11/17/2005 |