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 cholesterol | depression, exercise intolerance, muscle weakness, memory problems, including 2 periods of amnesia, each lasting several hours, nausea and vomiting | lowered | F | 51 | 4 months | 6/25/2005 | 3 | genetic hyperlipidemia | Like a vast majority of those contributing, a lightheadedness, tingling in the scalp, visual deficits (not double vision or blurriness but a sense of my right eye drooping though it is not). The lightheadedness and | Wokred great at lowering cholesterol from 276 to 194 but at what price? It is a bad feeling walking around thinking you've got a tumor behind your eye! | M | 33 | 2 years | 6/24/2005 | 1 | routine cardiology Rx after stent | Husband gradually developed muscle pains, extreme tiredness, irritability, weird dreams, restless leg syndrome, hair loss, lack of enthusiasm for anything, strange blood test results w/elevated CRP, BUN, Creatinine, urine albumin, increased blood glucose, periodic memory lapses and belly weight gain. Perhaps the effects were slower because he was on 75 mg of CoQ10. We stopped the drug cold when he stated he felt as if he was losing muscle! | Effective dose for most people is apparently 2.5 mg and Pfizer starts people at 10! Statins are sneaky and deceptive drugs which have ruined many lives. I'm hoping husband does not have permanent heart, kidney and muscle damage | F | 59 | 28 months | 6/24/2005 | 1 | questionable ^ chol after bypass | 75 yo mother-in-law has memory loss, hair loss, muscle spasms in left arm and legs, odd blood sugar pattern, sciatic pain which is not sciatica, periodic back and hip pain, gradual loss of feeling in toes, dizziness, vision problems, extreme tiredness, lack of appetite, and no enthusaism for life. She has had several TIAs and who knows what else she has experienced and not reported to us. | Dr wanted to double dose to 40 mg. We took her totally off the drug and she is beginning to have return of feeling in her toes, no more muscle cramps at night or dizziness. Taking lipoic acid, vit C & mega dose of CoQ10 and will never take another statin. Higher cholesterol in those over 60 is now found to be PROTECTIVE particularly against stroke! | F | 75 | 4 years | 6/24/2005 | 1 | High cholesterol/high triglycerides | I was on 10 mgs. and then cut it in half for over two years. Stopped taking it 11/04 due to severe legs problems; muscle aches/weakness/stiffness, cramps in my feet and hands, pain in my arms and chest, memory problems along with vision problems. | This drug needs to be taken off the market and doctors need to realize how much damage it has done to many innocent people. | F | 48 | 2 years | 6/24/2005 | 1 | Hyperlipidity | Severe myalgia. Symptoms developed and progressed gradually, but stopped within one week of stopping Lipitor. | Very effective at lowering cholesterol but if you are prone to muscle inflammation or other connective tissue pain (due to rheumatoid arthritis or fibromyalgia for example) I would be very cautious. My symptoms developed gradually enough that I assumed I was relapsing with rheumatoid arthritis -- I was astounded to find the problem was Lipitor. I had lesser problems with Pravochol but have come to distrust all statins. I am focusing on diet, time-release naicin, and fish oil instead. | M | 48 | 1 years | 6/23/2005 | 3 | F | 44 | 2 days | 6/22/2005 | 3 | cholesterol | pain in my arms | M | 66 | 1 years | 6/19/2005 | 5 | hyperlipidemia | Temporary constipation relieved by fiber supplements, gone after about 6 weeks. Possibly increased hair loss - (and I am female so it is really unfortunate) but thinning hair among women at my age also runs in my mothers family so can't really blame statins. | I have a lipid problem that doesn't respond to diet or exercise. Agressive cholesterol management is my only option. Liptor works. I take 40mgs/day, may be able to lower it since my total cholesterol dropped from 300 to 120 in two months. My doctor put me on CoQ 10 at the same time as the Lipitor, and explained possible side effects. Lipitor actually reversed blockages in one of my brothers. 4 out of 5 of us are on statins - 3 Lipitor. No serious bad effects. Try CoQ 10 to prevent/reduce side effects. | F | 49 | 5 months | 6/17/2005 | 2 | High Cholesterol | I've been taking Lipitor for three months and just had my blood tests done yesterday. I'm awaiting those results, but I've decided to stop the Lipitor. My doctor is in complete agreement and has recommeded Zocor once my side effects from Lipitor disappear. I've had tingling and numbness in my arms and hands, general achiness all over (similar to flu), and my knuckles are so swollen I can't remove my rings. I've also noticed twitching around my mouth. My heels hurt in the morning when I first get up, but the pain subsides once I take a few steps. My husband has been taking Lipitor for about five years with no side effects. | F | 58 | 3 months | 6/15/2005 | 5 | Heart problems, high ldl | I have been on lipitor for 10 years for heart maintenance 20Mg...Iwas changed to 10Mg and added tricor 145 Mg because of high ldl. I do experience leg weakness and cramping...cramping relieved with Potassium | M | 67 | 10 years | 6/12/2005 | 1 | high cholesterol | Stomach irritation Abnormal Dreams & DEPRESSION! I am not normally a depressed person AT ALL! | F | 57 | 6 months | 6/12/2005 | 1 | To lower cholesterol | Severe lower back pain after increasing Lipitor form 10-20 mg. I couldn't get out of bed or walk after taking it for about one week. I stopped taking it and I have pain in my right leg. It has been three weeks and it is still hard to walk and go to work. | I thought I had the flu for the first week when I first started taking 10 mg. about two years ago. Now after getting the back pain when we doubled the dosage, I think it wasn't the flu but a reaction to the drug. | F | 57 | 11 days | 6/11/2005 | 2 | High Cholesterol | Muscle pain. Severe joint pain in the shoulders and knees. Pain and cramping in my hands and lower legs. Numbness in all of my finger tips and toes. Wake up on and off all night long due to numbness in my hands and pain in shoulders some nights worse than others. | I've been off lipitor since 7/1/04 and the muscle pain is gone and my knees are almost back to my norm. Both of my shoulders are still very messed up. Have constint shoulder pain more in the left than the right. Still have finger and hand numbness on and off all day and night. Worse at night. But even these pains are a lot less now then they were while on lipitor. I'm hoping that there is not any perminent damage. While first taking lipitor and I noticed these changes I told my doctor and he told me that this had nothing to do with the lipitor. It was just age. | M | 37 | 12 days | 6/8/2005 | 3 | Hypercholestremia familial | Recent increase in diarreah Muscle aches & pains, fatigue. Otherwise healthy and active 43 year old | I am considering stopping this as the side effects are bad | M | 43 | 3 years | 6/7/2005 | 1 | Doctor recommended it | I have never been so miserable in my life. Started out with severe back spasms, then had intense pain in my knees and spasms all throughout my legs. Weakness in my right arm. The worst of all was feeling like I was walking through waist-deep mud, I simply could not walk. Extreme anxiety as well. | I had no idea what an evil poison this is. My doctor never told me any of the side effects but since then I have learned of so many people with the same problems. Taking 200 mg/day of COQ10 has helped immensely as well as the potassium of bananas. | F | 51 | 22 days | 6/7/2005 | 1 | high cholesterol | blinding headaches, neck and shoulder pain. Memory loss and at times find it difficult to work. severe fatigue with aches and pains. Prior to taking this medication I felt great and look forward to getting back to my old self again. I have been off lipitor for almost 2 weeks and still feel pretty lousy. | F | 54 | 2 months | 6/7/2005 | 1 | Cholesterol | Temporal Lobe epilepsy | M | 3 years | 6/5/2005 | 4 | high cholesterol | muscular pain in the back | M | 57 | 5 years | 6/2/2005 | 1 | to lower cholesterol | I had an extreme reaction - tunnel vision, vertigo, tingling and numbness (hands, legs, face), complete weakness in the right side of my body including loss of strength, and what I term as complete body flushes (like a hot flash without the hot). I thought for sure that I was having a stroke. The hospital did a CT scan, MRI, MRA, Echocardiogram, Doppler of the Carotids, X-rays, and first termed it a TIA. But since that time the doctors have backed down from that diagnosis. A week later I had several (22) episodes of the body flushes (within a 5 hour period) which sent me back to the hospital. After several doctors, they are saying now that it was probably caused by the Lipitor. I am not taking it any more and have not had any episodes for 10 days. This was after only taking the Lipitor for 21 days. | The only good thing that came from all of this hospitilization was that they did find a brain aneurysm which I am having taken care of by a | M | 53 | 21 days | 6/1/2005 |