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 |
| 4 | High cholesterol | Terrible, terrible, terrible charley horses in feet, calves, abdomen, breasts, shoulders and sides. | Although my cholesterol was lowered rapidly, I have been taking 10mgs for about 5 year. I am so glad I hit upon this site because my doc hasn't paid any attention to my complaints of "charley horses" in my feet, legs, abdomen, breasts, shoulders, sides. Had brain scans for the memory loss, vertigo and headaches. Found some indications that I may have had mini-strokes over the years. Every time I laugh "hearty", I get a breath-taking charley horse in one or both breasts. If I tuck something under my arm, I get a charley horse in my side. Charley horses in the abdomen while toileting. Charley horses in feet while driving. I am printing out this site and taking it to my doc. He has to pay attention now. Thanks to all of you for sharing. | F | 51 | 5 years | 3/7/2006 | 1 | high lipids | muscle ache | | 3/4/2006 | 4 | high cholesterol | Some muscle soreness, but tolerable. However weight gain has been a problem. Several friends mentioned the same weight gain problem | M | 55 | 2 years | 3/3/2006 | 1 | aid to cyclosporin for kidney disea | weakness, fatigue, muscle spasms, stiffness all over, achilles tendonitis that won't heal, flu-like symptoms, feeling like "an old lady". | I've been on Lipitor for almost 2 years as a booster for a type of kidney malfunction. Over that time I've gradually become weaker, stiff, and low in energy and over the past few weeks I've developed flu like syptoms and muscle spasms. My achilles tendonits just won't get better despite 3 months of PT. I saw my doctor about this today and he suggested going off the Lipitor to see if it was causing this. Thank you all for posting such enlightening information. I hope that we all do better off this drug! | F | 44 | | 3/3/2006 | 4 | preventive | Due to bad family history and some early calcification, taking 10 mg at bed time quickly lowered total cholesterol to new target well under 200. After taking it for 8 months developed widespread muscle pain - neck, back, hips, legs, and hands. Aches and pains interupt sleep. Very stiff upon waking and hands hurt so much can't make a fist. Weakness when standing after sitting. Early in the day I move like someone much older. Pain diminishes throughout the day. lst doctor said probably had arthritis but could not explain overnight appearance or widespread discomfort. Second doctor said has been seeing lots of patients who have similar problem with statins and blood tests not confirming inflamation. Has suggested I stop taking for around 3 months to see if symptons go away. If pain disappears will try another statin. Also taking Fosamax 35. | F | 55 | 8 months | 3/1/2006 | 2 | High Cholesterol | Shortness of breath, fatigue, muscle soreness, numbness in arms, constant headaches, impending doom, short-term memory loss, flu-like symptoms | Thank you for this website. I have been looking for reasons why I feel this way and have started medical 101. Tomorrow am scheduled for lung scan and chest x-ray and Dr. game me # for cardiac CT scan after that. I want to cancel all appointments and stop taking Lovastatin. Being taking 40mg for 4 months now and symptoms began immediately with shortness of breath. The muscle soreness and headaches will not go away and I feel like I got hit by a truck. Will be going off it though it did lower my cholesterol. I am an otherwise healthy woman who exercises 3 times a week (walking and swimming laps)and am lacto-ovo vegetarian. Again, thank you for this website. It took a fews weeks to find it through my searching. I definitely will bookmark it. | F | 48 | 4 months | 2/24/2006 | 1 | High Cholesterol | Depression, anxiety, spaced-out feeling, lack of concentration, insomnia. | I take zoloft for major depression and it works well. However, within days of starting lipitor, I started feeling the adverse side effects Depression, anxiety, spaced-out feeling, lack of concentration, insomnia which are pretty much how I felt when I was experiencing major depression. The thing is, if I were to stop taking zoloft today, it would be months before I felt the depression returning, and it would take months to get back to normal when I restarted zoloft. Lipitor put me in that state in a could of weeks, and after stopping lipitor, I was feeling better in a few days. Just to be sure, I started taking lipitor a second time, and the depression came back within one or two days. It's now a week since I stopped it and I'm just now getting back to normal. I haven't noticed any increased muscle or joint pain. I'm not touching statins again. | M | 51 | 3 weeks | 2/22/2006 | 1 | High Cholesterol | Confusion, short term memory loss, lack of motivation. Returned to normal within a week of quitting Lipitor. | I had rather risk living with a 228 cholesterol level than deal with the memory loss. It was quite frightening as it seemed like incipient dementia. | M | 57 | 2 months | 2/21/2006 | 2 | High cholesterol, bad liver enzymes | Muscle weakness in arms and legs, blurry eyesight, hair loss, but worst of all, burning feet and painful heels | Taking the drug did lower my cholesterol and after 9 years my liver enzyme tests suddenly were in a good range. I believe a good diet can do more for me than Lipitor. | F | 64 | 10 months | 2/19/2006 | 1 | High cholesterol | muscle weakness in ankle, plantar muscle, back. I stopped lipitor right away when a friend told me that her supposedly 'fibromyalgia' disappeared when she stopped the drugs. Too many people with disabilitating symptoms taking lipitor or all the other cholesterol prescribed drugs. It did lower my cholesterol but I don't need to be cripple. Now I eat soaked oatmeal, 1 glass or dry red wine x4 weekly, watch my diet, walk 1/2 hour daily. It does lower my cholesterol from 300 to 175 I stopped it for 1 month my cholesterol went up again. | I suggest people with high cholesterol to research more about all cholesterol lowering drugs. They all have the same formula with different names. Find alternatives like me...go natural. | F | 62 | 4 years | 2/19/2006 | 1 | high cholesterol | deppression ,weakness, fatigue, muscle pain and stiffness in neck,numbness and tingling in extremeties,gas ,bloating indegestion,stuffy nose,plugged ears,lack of balance and cooridination,kidney stone,bronchitis, increased cough, abdominal hematoma from bleeding in my abdomen after coughing and rupturing a blood vessel.decreased immune system ,elevated wbc,s,trouble swallowing,hoarse voice,chest pain shortness of breath,decreased sense of smell and taste,irregular periods abnormal uterine bleeding , decreased progesterone production,dark urine,tooth decay,anxiety,anemia,back pain... I felt like I was being poisoned for the 3 years I was on it esp. the last several months after my dosage was increased to 40 mg. and I was being poisoned!!! by lipitor!! I have been off it now for 9 months and feel much better but still have residual side effects a constant vibrating down left leg, muscle and joint pain on and off still never got back all my smell and taste and still not making progestero | I have been a nurse for the past 25 years and have seen the devistation of these dangerous over perscribed drugs every day I go to work.The increase in kidney failure from patients on it the increase in infections ,auto immune diseases , and the over all ill health of these patients increased confusion muscle pain and weakness trouble walking increased bleeding in patients on statin drugs. | F | 43 | 3 years | 2/17/2006 | 1 | preventive use | fatigue,neuropathy, taste perversion, back pain,suicidal depression,weight loss, paranoia,general change in personality. Everything in my career and family life was going fine for me but a feeling of impending doom persisted in me. | I do not think that enough long terms trials are done on this drug. Patients often struggle with its side effect and their experiences are not validated by physicians. | M | 42 | 2 years | 2/11/2006 | 4 | High Triglycerides | Oddly, only positive. I seem to sleep better and have lots of interesting dreams. No adverse effects. | Was on Niacin (500mg) for 90 days, but showed no improvement. Tried Tricor for about 8 days, but couldn't deal with the side-effects (sore joints, sleeplessness, gas). Been on 20mg Lipitor for 30 days now, but won't know any benefit for another 60 days. | M | 30 | 30 days | 2/9/2006 | 1 | Very High Lipids | I added a rating about a month ago. At that time, I just stopped taking Lipitor after only three weeks because of the major side effects I experienced. Many of the side effects have lifted however I am still experiencing sore and stiff hips, knees, ankles and feet. I feel like the lower half of my body belongs to a much older person than me, I'm only 48 years old but feel 90. I am very concerned that I may have permanent damage done to my legs because of only three weeks on this drug. Is anyone else experiencing this lasting effect from Lipitor? | F | 48 | 3 weeks | 2/9/2006 | 5 | Hereditary High Cholesterol | None. | Lipitor dropped my cholesterol from the 260-280 range to the 160-180 range. | M | 25 | 8 years | 2/8/2006 | 1 | High Cholesterol | Just before this last Christmas I had a small stroke and spent three days in the hospital. To make a long story short, there are no after effects of the stroke. In other words the symptoms went away. But, my Doc put me on Aggrenox and 20mg of Lipitor. I have very high arches and have had a little tingling in my feet for years. This is really helped with a good arch support. But for the last two months the pain in my feet and calves (and sometimes thigh) has gotten much worse. I cannot walk very far and sleeping has become a problem because of the pain. Because of the preexisting arch problem, I thought it was just naturally getting worse but after finding this web site I am not sure if it is not the Lipitor. On a pain scale it has gone from a 1 or 2 to 7 or 8. I have a followup apointment with my Doctor in two days and was thinking of asking him if I could go off the Lipitor. What do you think? | M | 63 | 60 days | 2/7/2006 | 4 | high cholesterol | periodic achy muscles | 20 mg. brought my counts way down | F | 55 | 3 months | 2/5/2006 | 1 | high cholesterol | It did lower my cholesterol, but I became so depressed that I called my doctor and told her I refused to take it anymore. I think this effect may have been caused by an interaction with the birth control pill. | it lowered my numbers, but made my life miserable | F | 22 | 2 months | 2/5/2006 | 1 | high cholesterol | I was started on 80 Lipitor, took it for 3 months. muscle weakness, legs felt like dropping off, muscle cramps, twitching, day and night.leathargy, was coming home from work so tired, would not eat going right to bed. pain in the back in shoulder muscles. | Told my Dr. about symptoms, hes idea was well we will lower it to about 20 Lipitor, I said no way. I am now on a low fat diet, and will loose about 25lbs, and use diet control, would never take another statin drug, It has taken about a month to feel good again. | F | 58 | 3 months | 2/3/2006 | 5 | high cholesterol | I am experiencing severe hip joint pain, thigh pain, severe thigh fatigue upon minimal exertion which is drastically impairing the ability to walk anything beyond a relatively short distance. The question is.. is lipitor causing this? I am taking 20 mg a day and have been taking this for 6 years. This has been a huge problem for the last 2.5 years. | I read this website and feel that lipitor is causing my pain. I have been to numberous orthopods, rheumetoligists, neouroligist, and others who cannot find any problems. So, when I read about all these people who seem to have figured this out ... I have hope. But are they correct in thier assumptions? We are all desperate to find an answer (the cause) and ultimately a cure. But is lipitor the answer? That is the question (DP 2/02/06 | M | 58 | 6 years | 2/2/2006 |