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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR LIPITOR | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 3 | high cholesterol | Makes me very tired | M | 46 | 2 years | 11/15/2006 | 1 | High Chloresterol | My chloresterol was 220 and my physician prescribed Lipitor. I took the medication for 3 weeks before I stopped. My left side, especially my shoulder and arm, are so sore and it's been a year since I stopped taking it. I'm concerned I have some kind of permanent damage to my muscles. I have no strength in my left arm and have a painful time lifting my own arm above my head and holding a hair dryer is a major task. My left hip hurts and I can no longer sit crosslegged on the floor. I am very limber but I cannot sit that way anymore and cannot get up from sitting on floor without a struggle. I wondered, at first, if I had some kind of mild stroke but found this website and realized I was right, it was the Lipitor. | I lowered my chloresterol by eating a bowl of oatmeal at night, for me, just changing my diet was the trick. | F | 43 | 3 weeks | 11/15/2006 | 4 | Elevated cholesterol | My hair is getting very thin, after being on cholesterol lowering drugs for 20 yrs. Lipitor, for the last 8 yrs. Didn't know this was a side effect.Do all cholesterol lowering drugs cause hair loss? | F | 70 | 9 days | 11/14/2006 | 1 | High Cholesterol | sleeplessness, peripheral neuropathy (tingling, numbness), bizarre muscular sensations, rash, itch | Effective at lowering cholesterol, but not without side effects. Do your research. Inform your GP as soon as you experience anything strange. This class of medication was most likely produced by a marketing department, rather than sound scientific study. | M | 39 | 8 months | 11/13/2006 | 2 | high cholesterol | insomnia, muscle aches | It's 1:00am, taking 10 mg, haven't slept in over a week. Plan to stop taking Lipitor tomorrow. It did lower my cholesterol tho. | F | 42 | 8 months | 11/12/2006 | 1 | high cholesterol | Developed severn calf cramps after a couple of weeks on Lipitor where I could bearly walk and after talking to a friend he told me he was prescribed Lipitor and had developed leg cramps and his doctor switched drugs. Before taking Lipitor I never have leg cramps. I then called my doctor and told him about my leg cramps and told me to stop taking the Lipitor and he was going to prescribe another drug. After one week off the drug I still have severn leg cramps and went in for another doctors visit and he said he didn't thiink it was a Lipitor side effect because the cramps were localized and felt maybe the cramps were caused by a muscle enemze. He drew blood and is running tests. About the same time I got the leg cramps my right knee swelled up so I saw another doctor and I don't know if the knee and leg cramps are related side effects. Anyway I asked the second doctor about Liptior side effects re.leg cramps and he felt that the side effect could be localized and that the cramps could | After learning about the side effects of Liptior and talking to several people who have been prescribed Lipitor all had some kind of side effects. | M | 43 | 2 months | 11/11/2006 | 1 | TO LOWER CLORESTEROL | GRADUAL BUT SIGNIFICANT INCREASE IN SLEEP REQUIREMENT AND ENERGY LOSS,LOSS OF CALF SUPPORT IN LEGS,VERTIGO LIKE EPISODES,COMPLAINTS TO DOCTORS WERE TO NO AVAIL, CONVINCED ME IN ERROR | AFTER GOING OFF THAT GARBAGE WITH IN TEN DAYS SLEEP REQMT WENT FR 12 TO 7 HOURS, ENERGY LEVEL INCREASED DRAMATICALLY, LEG PAIN WENT AWAY, STRENGTH IS RETURNING, VERTIGO LIKE SYMPTONS DECREASING, LOOKING TO JOIN CLASS ACTION SUITE | M | 73 | 4 years | 11/8/2006 | 5 | High Cholesterol | Wow, So Im not CRAZY after all! My Dr. can't seem to find out why My feet hurt in the morning and unexplained Joint Pain, I get even after just sitting for an hour watching TV in the evening. Man I get up and I can hardly walk. Stiffness in my feet, and Leg Joint. DR. has done X-Ray and everything. Im think he is thinking it is in my head all this pain. | Now when I So called sleep at night I have been noticing I get numbness in my hands, and it isnt due to me lying on my arms or anything, and my Lt Wrist joint, where my thumb is attached, is dislocating or it painfully sticks. And I have to painfully put it back in. Im going to show this website to my GP! | F | 44 | 1 years | 11/1/2006 | 1 | high cholesterol | Weak muscles , fatigued , high pck level , high liver enzyme , leg cramps , flared up tendenitis. Doctor says unrelated to lipitor. he obviously has not seen this web site. | It is poison for me. | M | 53 | 1 years | 10/31/2006 | 2 | cholesterol levels | Extreme fatigue, muscle aches, cramps, MEMORY problems, balance problems, cold toes and feet (with NO circulatory problems) cold hands, dry throat/hoarseness, slurred speech. | Lipitor works, but for me it was at a terrible cost to my quality of life. At first, I had no problems. Problems began gradually and I never put it together until my GYN said "STOP taking Lipitor!" Over this time, I gradually began to feel like an old, old lady and I was taking medication for arthritis and being tested for sorgren's syndrome. I was also joking about developing alzheimers but was really terrified of my memory problems and slurred speech! My internest never suggested it could be the lipitor. I've been off 1 month and it's been like waking up from a bad dream. Every day has been better. I hope it continues!! I took CoQ10 along with it. NEVER Again!! | F | 58 | 3 years | 10/24/2006 | 1 | High Cholesterol | Took 10mg lipitor for 7 years had soreness of muscles for 4 years. Then started with excruciating pain and muscle cramps in lower back,then down left buttock, thigh,calf and ankle.Left foot has a numbness feeling to it,tingling in lower leg when walking,which I have to use a cane now. Also very fatiqued,buzzing in both ears, nausia, sleeplessness, gas and dark urine.All these side effect I have 24/7. | I have asked my doctors more then once if any of my meds. could be causing me all this pain,3 different doctors said NO.They came up with,"Arthritis,Tendonitis,Sciatica,after being checked out for all these, they were wrong. I stopped taking Lipitor and Tricor about 6 weeks ago. | F | 63 | 7 years | 10/20/2006 | 1 | high cholesterol | OK for 4 years, then muscle cramps, spasms, weakness in legs and right hand progressed to atrophy. Foggy mental state, falling over,clumsiness,nightmares,dry mouth. Stopped taking Lipitor in April 2006 and rapidly improved, but a month later started going downhill again and have now been diagnosed with ALS. I am an unlikely candidate for MND. I know the Lipitor poisoned me. | I wish I had stopped taking this poison before it caused permanent nerve damage. | F | 61 | 5 days | 10/16/2006 | 1 | high cholestoral | leg pain | quit taking condition improved | M | 68 | 2 years | 10/15/2006 | 3 | cholesterol | Back pain, Lipitor seems to be involved | In November of 2005 I was prescribed Lipitor for elevated cholesterol. Not really high, but high enough, dosage was only 20 mg per day. Within two months, I had developed wicked back pain, along with neuropathy and hypersensitivity that wrapped around my abdomen. We suspected the Lipitor was involved, so I went off it, since my numbers had gotten really low. I was effectively laid up for about six months. Since there was no immediate improvement, we surmised that Lipitor wasn't causing this. It's October 2006 now, and I'm starting to feel more like myself, still hurts but I can work around it. The cholesterol has crept up, so two weeks ago we started the Lipitor again, and within a few days I was paractically flat on my back again! So, I've stopped again. It's a bloody shame this is happening, as the drug was extremely effective in dropping that cholesterol. Too bad, we're going to have to try something else, I guess. | M | 48 | 60 days | 10/4/2006 | 1 | cholesterol levels/type 2 diabetic | Elevated CPK levels, muscle problems, felt bad | I landed up having to have a muscle biopsy to the right leg which showed no muscle damage, but elevated CPK levels still were present. After stopping this drug, the levels returned to normal after 3 months | F | 48 | 3 days | 9/27/2006 | 2 | High Cholesterol | Heart attack Nov 2001,no surgery. Quit smoking,retired June 2002. Dec 2003,started 1/day 10 mg Lipitor after Zocor CRIPPLED me and Powder stuff did nothing. Best blood tests ever,low dosage,felt great! Dec 2006,started mild diarrhea,maybe once every three weeks for a day or so. Thought it was previous nites dinner. Became more frequent. Started taking surface streets to work,so I could find bathrooms. Had "2 step trots", if I could not get to the pot in two steps, it was in my pants! Could NOT HOLD IT! Lots of brown water. Got more "explosive". Just terrible. I'd get to work, then crap my pants walking across the parking lot. Was as often as every other day. Would crap on and off for 2,3,4 hours ! Started carrying big wad of toilet paper in my back pocket. April 2006, quit Lipitor. 5 days-regular bowel movements! Quit Lipitor! Tried Crestor, but had muscle ache/pain,not as bad as ZOCOR! On Aug 8-06 took 1,10 mg,Lipitor for 5 succesive days. Aug 12-06, practically b | Worked great on my cholesterol. Diarrehea prevents continued use. | M | 63 | 3 years | 9/24/2006 | 1 | High Cholesterol | Alopecia, nausea, vomiting, severe back and hip pain, depression, dark thoughts, overwhelming exhaustion and muscle fatigue, sleeplessness, facial paralysis, loss of quality of life. | Have been on Lipitor for approx. 2 1/2 years. Within 5 months experienced alopecia, which I had never had before and excused as stress related. Nausea and vomiting began several months later, if taken within a 3-4 hours of eating. Then within a year of being on the medication, I experienced severe facial paralysis diagnosed as Bell's Palsey. Severe hip and back pain followed, along with depression, thoughts of suicide and paranoia. The overwhelming exhaustion that I felt every morning for over a year intensified. I have tried altering when I take Lipitor but it did not help with the nausea. I stopped taking the Lipitor 45 days ago after I began to experience hair loss again. I researched Lipitor in a pharmacy book and realized hair loss, along with most of my other ailments, were side effects. I started noticing improvement during the first 30 days. At 45 days, my facial paralysis is 99% gone, I wake rested, my back and hip pain are slowly improving and my overall mental wellbein | F | 58 | 2 days | 9/11/2006 | 1 | High cholesterol | I started taking Liptor as cholesterol was 494. After about 2 weeks I was extremely fatigued, headaches. After 2 months I started having leg cramps and very dark urine. Went in for 2 mo. blood test. Doctor took me off. Said it was compromising my liver. Had only taken my cholesterol down 30 points. I started walking & taking some phytomega vitamins & have dropped my cholesterol down. i have been taking statin drugs for 35 years. They all help some...but have gotten leg cramps with all & some hair loss with Mevacor. | F | 61 | 2 months | 9/6/2006 | 4 | cholesterol | F | 72 | 4 days | 9/4/2006 | 1 | High cholesterol | sever muscle weakness with nerve damage,memory loss,red spots all over my body,hair loss,slowed speach,aphasia brain not sending messages to my muscles,shufflihg gait,unable to get out of chairs without help | Itook Lipitor for ten plus years 10mg then Dr. raised it to 20mg and about 2 weeks latter raised it to 40mg I took 4 pills and Icould not walk,get out of a chair, put my hand up to my mouth,ringing in my ears, sinus problems,I was told the pain in my back was galblader when I had it removed 20years befor. I ask my Dr. about my hairloss and spots on my body&was told [Your age]whenI lost my ability to walk very far I ask my pharmacist what drug if any would cause this she said stop the Lipitor and get to your Dr. a.s.a.p. I stopped the drug 5weeks ago and have been in physcle therapy for almost 5wks with some help but the weakness comes & goes from one side to the other& back again .I have aphasia intermittingly, My eyes get blury My brain is going on overload right now so I pray that someway some how this killer drug gets off the market befor any more trusting souls get simptoms of unsuspected side effects. After reading all the side effects and looking back on all my proble | F | 67 | 10 years | 8/28/2006 |