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 tryglicirides | muscle pain back pain chest pain....ulnar neuropathy.. anxiety and fatigue | 36 | 90 days 10mg 1X day | 7/6/2020 | 2 | Elevated Ldl | Tired, insomnia, weight gain, short term memory loss, fatigue, low blood pressure(seizure), mild headaches, loss of balance, loss of appetite and debilitating lower back pain making it hard to walk | Nothing I was able to learn about the side effects mentioned what I have experienced! | M | 68 | 0 days 20 mg | 6/24/2020 | 1 | Supposedly to reduce risk of mi | Tiredness, muscle weakness, severe back pain. Was taking alongside 10mg Ezetemibe. In my opinion both are poison. Stopped taking both and felt massively better after a couple of days. After much research I concluded there is no significant evidence that lowering my already low cholesterol made sense as cholesterol is not a cause of heart disease. | Should be banned. | M | 54 | 11 months 40mg | 4/17/2020 | 1 | high cholestrol | Woke up one morning and could not walk! Severe leg and hip pain! | I almost bought a wheelchair! Two weeks in hell before I figured it out! | F | 65 | 180 days 20 mg 1X day | 3/13/2020 | 1 | High cholesterol | Nausea | Horrible decision to take Lipitor. Stay away. | F | 43 | 0 days 10 MG | 2/24/2020 | 1 | high cholesterol | Paranoia, anxiety, muscle aches and weakness. | I could not effectively work at my career while on this drug and lost my job as a result. After getting off the medicine my head cleared. | M | 55 | 90 days 20 mg 2X day | 1/12/2020 | 1 | High cholesterol/triglycerides | Worst drug on the market. I am a type 2 diabetic (hereditary) and have hypothyroidism (over 20 years) It's taken me over 20 years of prescribed Lipitor, one per day, to finally have PROOF that it doesn't work, severely affects your liver, AND does cause inflammation plus joint/muscle pain. I have hereditary high cholesterol, and for the past 20 plus years have been on Lipitor daily yet my cholesterol never got better and my triglycerides were always extremely high. SO MUCH that I've had 3 liver biopsies and no diagnosis other than fatty liver/NASH. Also, as many others here, complained of severe muscle/joint pain that NO doctor ever acknowledged yet I'm sure has caused damage to my now arthritic hands/shoulder/legs. THANKS to my newest and only cardiologist, after my 2 younger brothers died of heart failure, ran a bunch of tests, all good thanks, but my high cholesterol and high triglycerides still not better. | FINALLY got off the LIPITOR, and now on CRESTOR which has miraculously in 2 years lowered my cholesterol to NORMAL ranges, and my TRIGLYCERIDES less than one third of the levels I'd had for 20 years. So many specialists and years of toxic Lipitor!! I'm so mad!!! But I am grateful to finally be feeling better, and having some amazing lower numbers in cholesterol/triglycerides! There is HOPE, keep asking questions and KEEP looking for alternatives!!! SHAME on the FDA for approving so many toxic drugs. SHOUT OUT and let BIG PHARMA know we, the patients, will NOT keep supporting their greediness!!! DO NOT take this drug!! It does NOT lower cholesterol or triglycerides. This drug causes more lifelong side effects than its worth!! | F | 58 | 20 years 40mg 1X day | 12/30/2019 | 1 | Liver pain , hard to swallow, itching, insomnia | M | 64 | 5 days 40 | 12/20/2019 | 1 | Doc said high cholesterol | Neurological - cognitive decline - primary progressive aphasia - loss of language | Started experiencing recognizable issues 3 years ago. They got progressively worse. Have stopped taking this year. | M | 75 | 10 years 10 mg | 12/12/2019 | 1 | High cholesterol | Aches, brain fog, made me feel awful | This drug should be taken off the market. I took this drug for 10 years. At first no problems with it but I started climbing the stairs and get terrible pains in my legs. I also started forgetting things. My sister told me she had come off it because of terrible pains. It dawned on me it’s the LIPITOR. I came off it and a week later I had my energy back, able to run up and down stairs again, memory and aches gone. I will never take this drug again | F | 10 years 1X day | 12/8/2019 | 1 | High triglycerides | I should have quit taking this the very first day. On day one I already experienced aches in the biceps and forearms, followed by my legs, and then back. After that came a type of tiredness I had not experiences before except in the worst stages of the flu. I stopped for two days and all symptoms resolves, but my doctor convinced me to press on, claiming these symptoms would go away after getting used to the medicine. Not only am I ridiculously tired, I can't sleep well enough to get rested. I will be ceasing this medication today. | M | 36 | 1 months 40mg 1X day | 11/30/2019 | 1 | Borderline "high" cholesterol | Suicidal depression from too low overall cholesterol (134); complete loss of rotator cuffs and resulting severley limited use of my arms. | It's my belief that recent past and current treatment of cholesterol has nothing to do with patient health and everything to do with Big Pharma and doctor profits. I began taking this drug in 2003 if I remember right and continued through May of 2011 when I realized that my depression had been caused by the statin and threw it out without consulting with the prescriber, who had put quite a bit of pressure on me to take the drug and I'm still suspicious of that. The highest my cholesterol had gone was 220 and I was able to bring that down to 177 with diet. My doctor insisted I take the drug anyway because the ratio of low to high density was still off. ? Since I threw the pills away, my cholesterol readings have steadily gone down as I've improved my diet, eating nearly all organic foods, and avoiding snacks, convenience foods, and meals out. My current reading is 192 (in the middle of ice cream season - love frozen yogurt) with ideal ratios and only occasional mild depression. Unfortunately, I will never get the full use of my arms back. I consider this drug a sham and near-poisonous. | F | 74 | 8 years 20 mg. 1X day | 10/21/2019 | 1 | Cholesterol after Bypass surgery | Major neck and lower back pain and soreness, fatigued all the time and mild depression. | I never really had high cholesterol but did have blocked arteries and had to have quadruple bypass. I know it doesn’t make sense to me either. It’s hard for me to judge this medicine just yet but going to look at taking a lighter dose the side effects are pretty serious. | M | 47 | 9 months 80mg | 10/5/2019 | 3 | High cholesterol | Muscle pain backache not for sure it’s associated with Lipitor but I believe it is stop taking three days ago still have some aches little better | My Cholesterol is 166 I started out it was 267 | F | 75 | 12 days 10 reduce | 10/4/2019 | 1 | Yes | Calcification of arteries (Triple By-Pass) Low Vit-D, Low Testosterone, Hand Tremors, psoriasis, Memory loss. | It is POISON! | M | 67 | 10 years 80mg | 9/23/2019 | 1 | High cholesterol | High sugar, HBP, anxiety, skin lesions, COPD, torn rotator cuff, heartburn, brain-Fog, did I say Brain-Fog!, aggression, sore muscles/nerves, depression, enlarged prostate, shortness of breath, inability to sleep, softening of nails, tiredness, I could go on and on! Cold turkey Lipitor 2 weeks ago; skin is clearing, muscles pain relief, brain-Fog is ever so very slowly lifting. Lipitor: Pure Poison!! Ive taken rather good care of myself by exercising, eating well, keep ideal weight. | Docs never mentioned Lipitor side effects, instead they prescribed more poisons for each and every symptom caused by Lipitor. Scary to ponder the sheer number of people using Lipitor while operating heavy equipment, including autos! | M | 64 | 25 years 10mg | 9/23/2019 | 1 | Hyperliperdiamia | Severe joint and muscle pain. Severe tendon pain. Numbness of both feet. Severe itchy rash over entire body. Substantial weight gain. Depression. Fatigue. Brain fog. Blurred vision. Vertigo..Dramatic hair loss. | After all of these years , in the last 2 years have gone down hill to the point of barely serviving each day. Will take the risk and won't be taking anymore so I have a quality of life that I have not had for many years. How dare your company take my life away for the sake of money. Shame shame shame. | F | 67 | 30 years 20mg | 9/6/2019 | 1 | Yes from1998 -2002 | 28 day end stage Alzheimer's like hospital stay, brain mri Innumerable lesions scattered throughout white and gray matter, biopsy revealed lesions to me apoptosis (brain cell death), electron microscopy revealed mitocjondrial DNA mutations.most closely resembling MELAS, i was to transfer to a nursing home, pending bed placement, when a 18 Professor from Johns Hopkins started me on a mitocondrial cocktail including a robust dose of ubiquinol ir CoQ10, within 24 hours of starting this cocktail I began to be able to answer simple questions to verbalize the need to use the restroom as up until this point I wet and soiled myself I was able to walk with assistance and recognize my wife my two-year-old son my parents and my siblings. A few days after I was discharged home with aggressive outpatient rehab and within a month or so after discharge I enrolled in the UCSD Statin effect study which determined the holes in my brain the mitochondrial DNA mutations as well as the peripheral neuropathy and subsequent cognitive neuropsych deficits we're all a result of my Lipitor use. Since this time I have discussed with several of my doctors whom I have sent fired because of their arrogance and sheer ignorance to the nasty effects that these drugs can and more often than anyone will care to admit, and do cause. Prior to this I was a critical care nurse for 13 years and thought I knew everything there was to know about the drugs I gave my patients turns out I knew everything that Pfizer wanted | M | 50 | 3 years 10mg | 8/3/2019 | 1 | I was told my LDL was 109, HDL 52. | Severe spinal pain, severe leg pain, weight gain, rise in glucose, loss of balance with loss of both feet control - many bad falls requiring medical intervention. | I had already used Simvistatin for about 3 yrs with nearly same problems except pain escalated once put on Lipitor. Now my hand are shaking also. | F | 68 | 12 months 40 mg | 8/2/2019 | 1 | Cholestrol | I had unknown arthritic conditions. My hands hurt, couldn't walk, felt like my heart literally hurt, constipation, depression, hair Loss, skin patches and anxiety. | F | 50 | 5 years 30 | 8/2/2019 |