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 | familial high cholesterol | Terrible charlie horses, cramping, my neck glands hurt. | My mother was began to have symptoms of als shortly after her lipitor dose was increased. She wasn't formally diagnosed for a year and a half after that. I lost my mother on January 12, 2008. I want to know if lipitor is connected to als. My husband was on it for less than 6 months and he noticed leg pains, neck glands hurt, trouble swallowing and more. | F | 53 | 2 years | 4/2/2008 | 1 | to lower cholesterol | SUDDENLY one morning as I arose from a chair I received a sudden severe pain close to my the crotch area.Could barely move. Then the other side became painful.I crawled up and down stairs and could barely walk;had to use a cane.AND I had been healthy and active prior to Lipitor. | Enlarged liver was the result of a blood test.Was taken off Lipitor, immediately, pain lessened, but muscles had become weak and stressed.Given 18 sessions of physical therapy, before body returned to comfortable gait.Pain free ever since. Cannot take any statins ever again. Was put on Zetia, taken off recently,1 1/2 year later. | F | 1 years | 3/23/2008 | 5 | high cholesterol | No problems with this drug | F | 60 | 5 years | 3/21/2008 | 5 | Congestive Heart Failure/Renal Fail | none | My doctor switched me from Pravachol to Lipitor almost a year ago because of a study that was done in CHF patients and when Lipitor was used, hospitalizations were cut almost in half. Normally I have to go into the hospital a minimum of 2 times a year. Since I started taking Lipitor, I have not been in the hospital even once! Also, he also told me that Lipitor was better for my kidneys than the statins. | M | 82 | 300 days | 3/20/2008 | 1 | high cholestrol | I had flu-like symptoms and my legs just ached. They hurt from my ankles to my hips and on certain days I could hardly walk. The sad part is that I am only 47 years old. | F | 47 | 6 months | 3/19/2008 | 1 | cholesterol | At first I had muscle pain, but that faded out. Next effect was short term memory: I would gas up, then try to pay without hanging up the pump. When I not only paid someone's bill but also drove off WITHOUT HANGING UP THE PUMP, I stopped taking the drug. | While it did lower my Cholesterol numbers (as did Simvastatin afterwards), I'm not sure it was worth it. Especially when I forget something important to my job and which I should have overlearned from years of gassing up cars. Memory is one of the things that cholesterol is used for making, and to me anything that cuts it off is best avoided. | M | 42 | 3 months | 3/17/2008 | 4 | high cholesterol | mostly i suffer restless leg syndrom 30 min. into taking it. otherwise, first dose i felt better. | be careful if you're on lipitor and your doctor begins to try and put you on medications for high triglycerides. i was put on tricor and it was extraordinarily horrible. side effects you can't believe. we summerized it as a conflict between the lipitor and tricor. if you must take another med for triglycerides and you begin to feel flu like, cramps in chest, legs, rashes appear, sleep very heavily, sleep alot or feel fatigued consider keeping tabs and if the side effects don't improve or there's more added in 2 weeks time, discontinue doseage. side effects may increase IE: gums swelling, visual anomalies, numbness in muscles, sore throat, soreness in mucous membrane areas... | 38 | 4 years | 3/15/2008 | 1 | cholesterol | muscle pain/inability to walk with left foot pain. Memory loss. overall loss of muscle tone. Unable to control weight. | Try to get a cardiologist to listen to you regarding symptoms. Called Pfizer and talked with nurse there and she recommended I let my doctor know about symptoms. She explained that drug was mfg in USA. My concern was that maybe some of the drug was mfg outside of USA, like maybe China and that a portion of the formula was causing problems. But in general the whole formula is poison so far as I am concerned. Thank God for this website. Am seeing new GP this week, and if he doesn't take me off Lipitor, am going to do it myself. Will take my chances rather than live this "hell" any longer.Have been on Lipitor for 6 years too long. | F | 66 | 6 years | 3/9/2008 | 3 | high cholesterol | M | 1 years | 3/4/2008 | 1 | cholesterol | loss of muscle, weakness, liver disfunction, exhaustion | F | 63 | 4 years | 3/3/2008 | 1 | high cholesterol | extreme muscle pain | avoid this drug...do your research... | F | 50 | 1 years | 3/3/2008 | 1 | High cholesterol | Sudden knee pain 2 week into it, horriable crippeling pain hit both knees at same moment, progressed to odd painful, lumpy swelling on both feet in same place on each and a sudden horriable grabbing pain in one ankle, gas, indigestion, acid reflux, no energy, confusion, stumbeling, vertigo, memory loss, frequent sudden urges to go pee that came out with a force that sprayed everywhere.(Off of it I now have to force it out). Getting off cleared most up but woke up every morning with horriable pain in a different joint making it useless until it passed days later and suddenly landed in right shoulder. MRI shows arthritis, tendonitis and burscitis when there was never any problems in that shoulder before. Been suffering with that for almost a year. Sudden grabbing pain in ankle comes and goes..HORRIABLE pain that almost throws me down. Have days where confusion comes back also. Also my last colonscopy turned up 5 precancerous polyups. Before statin drugs, I never had a one of them, 5 year | This medicine is posion! We do not know if the damage it does to us is permenant or not. I feel like I have been cheated out of growing old naturally and will question every ailmant I have from now on as natural or statin induced. In my whole life, I didn't see a doctor as much as I have since I started Lipitor drugs and since I have been off of it. The doctor always brushed off my complaints or would write me a RX for another dangerous drug! WHEN are doctors going to listen to the people are paying him to treat them and quit believing those who PROFIT from the sale of their drugs they push on unsuspecting people. (What happened to "DO NO HARM?").They have killed my faith in drugs, doctors and the FDA. DOCTORS! WAKE UP!! THEY ARE MAKING YOU LOOK LIKE FOOLS AND IDIOTS that can be bought for a free lunch or a plate of cookies! I also say, get those darn drug ads OFF of TV! | F | 61 | 6 years | 3/1/2008 | 1 | heart attack | extreme constant pain, legs, hips, fuzzy headed, muscle loss, possible permanent damage. | I am totally convinced this stuff is dangerous, it does lower cholesterol, but to what end? Found more natural fix which is more effective, excellent results, better quality of life, and better health overall. Blood test was 8.06 total, now 3.05 without using Lipitor! Had around 25 angina attacks per week, now 0. Was totally disabled, now active. | M | 50 | 15 days | 2/16/2008 | 1 | doctor wanted my LDL lowered. | Indigestion - never had it before and stopped when I stopped taking the statin. Chest pains waking me up at night - never had it before and stopped when I stopped taking the statin. Neuropothy in right hand & arm - never had it before and stopped when I stopped taking the statin. | I believe it is totally unnecessary for healthy people. We NEED cholesterol. In trying to reduce it, statins stop a whole cascade of addditional enzymes and proteins that are absolutely necessary for healthy bodies. It took three years of statins (2 on Zocor then 1 one on Lipitor) at 40mg per day to finally cause the above reactions to the destruction the stains were doing to my body. | M | 59 | 3 years | 2/12/2008 | 3 | cholesterol | severe pain in buttocks and left leg Sciatica like symptoms | I don't know if it helped anything. Felt no difference except sudden onset of pain after one month. Couldn't sleep. | F | 69 | 1 months | 2/8/2008 | 1 | high choleserol | within 2 hours started having heart attack symptoms | Had to go to ER. I was in ER within 3 hours of taking 1st pill. It was scary trying to make sure I had proper observation and not over-reaction because of the symptoms. I had to slow people down several times. Now convinced it would have had serious health risks for me had I even tried taking a second pill the next day or even continuing taking them. It took a while (months) before I started to feel normal again. | M | 47 | 1 times | 1/29/2008 | 5 | High cholesterol, by-pass, angiop. | Most of the side effects everyone else has: weak legs, muscle and back soreness, ears ringing, feel bad, all usually in the mornings. | However, it lowered my cholesterol, tryglycerides, and blood pressure, along with a lot of exercising. I had by-pass surgery in 1986, angioplasty in the mid 90's, started on Zocor, then my doctor switched me to Lipitor and have not had to have either since I started on the statins. (started with 20mg. then 40mg., and now 80mg.) Its not perfect, but it keeps me alive. I am now 65 and I thank God every single day for my doctor and my medicine. I just gut it up and make my self jog a mile and walk a mile 4-5 times a week, pain or no pain. I have lived to see my grandchildren and two great grandchildren. Life is good. Think positive! | M | 65 | 12 years | 1/26/2008 | 5 | heart attack and high cholesterol | None. | I have taken 80 mg per day for three years, and have had no side effects and my LDL typically measures between 40 and 45. This drug -- when combined with lifestyle changes -- certainly works well. | M | 43 | 3 years | 1/22/2008 | 1 | High Cholesterol | Read the following Business Week article businessweek.com magazine/content/08_04/b4068052092994.htm | M | 37 | 10 days | 1/22/2008 | 1 | high cholesterol | fluids pooling in my lower extremeties - especially my feet, general muscle soreness | I take several meds for rheumatoid arthritis and none of these medications have affected me in this way. My rheumatology office suggested I check with my PCP immidiately. | F | 58 | 4 weeks | 1/21/2008 |