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 cholesterol | Feeling disoriented. Not taking any more until I see doctor next week. | F | 66 | 7 days 20mg | 6/4/2016 | 1 | stroke | Stomach pain, loss of appetite,which is causing me to loss weight, back pain, neck pain and extremely fatigued, | I went to the Dr.and he changed me back to Crestor , I am just wondering when my appitite will return I stopped taking atrovastin to fays ago and still no appetite | F | 62 | 3 months 20mg | 6/4/2016 | 1 | High cholesterol | Started with right shoulder pain. Then chest and back pain. Now slightly in my left shoulder. It feels like someone is squeezing me!!! Unable to sleep due to pain. I'm now starting to have crazy dreams. I have always been the kind of person who never stops, rarely watches tv and is quite active. Now, tv, couch, and bed are my best friends!!!! | After reading these other statements with the concerns.... I am calling the dr tomorrow and getting off it!!!! | F | 47 | 2 weeks 10mg | 6/3/2016 | 1 | High cholesterol | My heart races. Tightness and uncomfortableness in my my chest and throat fill like its swelling. | Terrible drug. Never again | F | 42 | 2 weeks 20 | 6/1/2016 | 1 | 3 Stents placement | Very sneaky drug that takes a toll over time. Got to the point where I could not walk or climb stairs anymore. Consistently got stiffer and sorer with weight gain. Told cardiologist and PC doctor who just dismissed my problems. I fired my cardiologist. Stopped taking this drug cold turkey and two weeks later feel very little pain. Will stay off this drug until my new cardiologist at UW hospital can hear me and take tests for my results. (and won't tell me I am fat and overweight like my old small town cardiologist said.) went from 185 lbs before taking this stuff to 220 lbs in six months because I was just burned out all the time and slept 12 hours a day!!!. I need to have a doctor that takes my words serious and won't just ignore my problems. What are these doctors thinking about by not considering this drug to be a poison!! Must stick up for yourself and begin questioning your doctors qualification for promoting this toxic crap. | Do your homework on this drug! So glad for reliable internet sources that confirmed my problems were the same as thousands of other folks. FDA should be ashamed of not telling people of these life threatening side affects from STATINS. KIND OF SOUNDS LIKE SATIN! | M | 61 | 16 months 80 1X day | 5/29/2016 | 1 | High cholesterol | The second day after starting this med, I had a level of tiredness like none I'd ever had. I could barely put one foot in front of the other. I also had a horrible aching in my shoulders and arms. As the days progressed, the achiness spread to my hips and legs. This morning, it was all I could do to get out of bed and I'm walking like I'm 90 years old. I could not make myself take this med again this morning. I've never stopped a med due to side effects before but I did today. I haven't even told the doctor yet but there's no way I can take this stuff anymore. I sure hope I'm able to get my strength back and stop hurting. | F | 54 | 7 days 20 MG 1X day | 5/11/2016 | 2 | high cholesterol | After a physical and discovering my cholesterol was high, my doctor prescribed Atorvastatin calcium. While at the Dr I also complained about muscle and joint pain. After 2 weeks of taking this med, I've noticed my pain is worse and now my right side/back constantly hurts. I've experienced blurred vision as well. At work I find myself in a brain fog, a lot. I've only been taking it two weeks so I was not contributing my symptoms to lipitor. I'm going to stop taking it for a couple weeks and see if it's the cause. | 52 | 2 weeks 10 mg | 4/16/2016 | 1 | High Cholesterol | Right shoulder blade ache and spasms. Leg cramps and feet cramps. Shoulder throbs the worst in the early morning. The leg cramps get me out of bed at all hours of the night to walk around and massage my legs. Was also taking COQ10 along with Lipitor. Obviously it didn't help. | Was taking generic Atorvastatin. I am stopping taking this immediately. I appreciate reading comments and understanding that others have the same issues. I didn't know what was causing this. | F | 55 | 90 days 40 1X day | 4/16/2016 | 1 | Hyperlipidemia | Almost immediately, I experienced severe nausea, constipation, feeling that there was a big "ball" stuck in my stomach, constant muscle spasms, inability to get my chronic daily headaches under control, exhaustion and fatigue but could not sleep. Took a week to get back to normal. | No more statins...the risk of taking them far outweighs the reward for me. I plan to consult my PCM regarding natural alternatives (i.e.: niacin, C0Q10, etc.) to lower my cholesterol. | F | 42 | 14 days 10 MG 1X day | 4/13/2016 | 4 | coronary artery disease | I've been taking statins for 20 years and haven't noticed any side effects. I've been taking 80mg of lipitor. In the last few months, after losing 20 pounds that I needed to lose my cholesterol went from 134 to 122. However, I also hurt my quadriceps on my elliptical machine and after 6 weeks it still hurts enough to keep me from walking. I stopped taking lipitor in case that had something to do with it. I'm also in physical therapy. I have no idea whether its the statins or the weight loss or just an injury. | M | 68 | 20 years 80mg 1X day | 4/3/2016 | 2 | Heart Attack/stent fitted | Had a heart attack at 49 years old. Never smoked and fairly fit. Anyway one of the drugs i was told to take once leaving the hospital was Lipitor 80mg daily. I was fine for the first week then pain started in chest muscles. Twice these pains put me in hospital thinking another heart attack. ECG and tests showed all clear. After 7 weeks went to dr and she straight away said stop taking them. So i have. I still have chest pain around the breast bone area that feels like its in the rib tissue and under the left breast area that again feels like its in the muscle/tissue between the ribs and around the back. Its like an ache that gets worse until i lay down and rest for a while Its been 8 days now and still getting the pains. Never had any before the heart attack? Anyone else had painful rib muscle/breast bone areas? How long stopping Lipitor did it take for your pains to go. Also on Ramipril 1.5mg and Bisoprolol 2.5mg. Never had any pains before taking all this medication. | M | 49 | 7 weeks 80mg 1X day | 3/26/2016 | 5 | control cholestoral | None that I can directly attribute to it. It is possible some minor pains and other occasional feelings like numbness are related, but they are occasional and in NO way can be linked based on my personal knowledge. I am almost 70 now...who knows what may be causing little things here and there? My cholesterol is under control (BUT I can't even be sure this is due to meds..) and I am pretty healthy overall. I have been an active exerciser for 30 years. | M | 20 years 10 1X day | 3/24/2016 | 1 | A virus attacked my heart. | Extreme muscle weakness,extreme joint pain,could barely walk,had to have help just to get in and out of bed! I could barely move my right arm from the shoulder down. Hands swelling especially right one. Fatigue,fever on and off and just feeling like death! Am still fighting to get better with the help of steroids. Also taking co-q 10,magnesium,fish oil and vitamin D. Very,very slowly getting energy back after 2 months of not being on statins! | I felt joint pain in wrists and hips for months! My doctor put the pain off saying I had degenerative arthritis. If you feel any joint or muscle pains please check with your doctor. I suffered for months before figuring out it was the statin drugs causing my issues! | M | 57 | 6 months 40 mg. | 3/17/2016 | 1 | prevent heart attack | Severe shoulder pain and neck pain, winged scapula from muscle wastage, confusion, sweats at night, tingling in arms and hands, numbness in legs, constant fatigue and generally ill constantly | I have just stopped taking this drug after reading this page, they have been trying to find the cause of all the above symptoms for months now after me undergoing chemo for 6 months and now in remission but feel worse than ever, this has to be the cause and the doctors must know this, 2 days off and feel slightly better | M | 57 | 10 days 10mg 1X day | 3/10/2016 | 5 | High LDL and total cholestrol | Slight headaches. Need to check with neurologist is reading is now too low. Have a cerebral aneurysm. Taken from 243 to 129. LDL from 163 to 56 and HDL from 70 to 59. Cannot risk a hemorrhage at this point. Will be checking with Neurologist this week. | When taking Liptor you need to supplement with K2 and CoQ10 200mg each to avoid muscles and joint problems. | F | 62 | 1 months 80 mg | 2/14/2016 | 1 | high cholesterol | burning tingling, numb hands, feet, back, stomach. Body aches., Hard to walk, memory deficits. | It is TOXIC, evil, poison! | F | 52 | 5 months 40 1X day | 2/10/2016 | 1 | stroke prevention | constant headache/brain fog, occasional blurry vision, lower back pain, pain in hip, pinching sensation in left toe, tightness/pain in center of chest, anxiety, depression, irritability, constant fatigue, lack of motivation, short term memory loss and confusion, regularly feel like I'm about to get a cold/flu | I am so grateful for this community. I am a 38 year old female who suffered an ischemic stroke in Nov 2014. I was prescribed a blood thinner (Plavix) as well as Lipitor, even though I do not have high cholesterol and am very healthy overall. In the months recovering from my stroke I experienced extreme fatigue, lack of energy, and depression, which is common after a stroke, as well as constant headaches and brain fog that would not go away. In addition, I would get occasional blurry vision (especially after getting up from bed). I soon began to suspect that both or either medication (Plavix and/or Lipitor) had something to do with it. After 2 months or so of no improvement, I began seeing an acupuncturist, which immediately helped improve my energy level, headaches, and post-stroke symptoms (numb/tingly sensation in left hand and hypersensitivity to hot/cold). As a result, I was able to start going to yoga regularly, which further helped my recovery. Once my energy level was back, I decided to go off both medications and soon the lingering headaches disappeared completely. During a follow-up visit, I admitted to my neurologist that I was no longer taking the medications because of the side effects, and that I preferred to lower my risk of future stroke with diet and exercise instead. Upon hearing this, he dismissed my side effects and scolded me in a very patronizing way about not taking my medication. After some back and forth, he agreed to lower my Lipitor prescription to 1 | F | 38 | 1 years 10 1X day | 2/4/2016 | 1 | high cholesterol | headache pain back of head, stiff neck, stomach pain, lower back discomfort & lightheaded when first stand up | It is very unusual for me to have a headache, so tried to figure out why was having this kind of head pain that lasted all day long as well as neck/shoulder pain, upper stomach pain & lightheaded. I started to examine recent diet and activities & realized the only change was starting on atorvastatin...now 2nd day after quitting symptoms just beginning to abate...DO NOT RECOMMEND THIS DRUG | F | 72 | 5 days 20mg 1X day | 2/1/2016 | 1 | heart disease | Bloating,weight gain,severe muscle spasms and thigh cramps,hip pain and right sided back pain. Burning feet, fatigue and feeling aged. Mentally less focused.Raised albumin, creatinine, GGT. Did not lower my cholesterol,went up slightly. Was never high any way. | Decided to stop when it became apparent that drug was the culprit. I also stopped my P.P.I. as I read together they are more likely to cause myalgia. I went from feeling like I'm 85 to getting back to my running which I missed so much within a week of stopping. After 6wks I still get odd back pain but otherwise good. | F | 59 | 5 years 40MG 1X day | 1/24/2016 | 1 | high cholesterol | Heart beats irregular...palpatations | After the first day I was having heart fluttering. Choose to lower the numbers naturally. I am discontinuing this drug. | F | 61 | 5 days 20 mg 1X day | 1/22/2016 |