LIPITOR Reviews (ATORVASTATIN CALCIUM)Average Rating: 1.9 (1279 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare LIPITOR with similar:
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| 1 | high cholesterol | legs feel leaden, initially, lower back pain (but I've had that before), cramps in thighs, achy legs, lack of energy. More problems with my sinuses. Woke up with severe vertigo, but it may be due to a cold virus. However, I've never had it before with a cold. Severe gas, and intestinal distention. Constipation. | I take other medications. Some for high blood pressure, and thyroid medication. However, I didn't have side effects from any of those medications. When I started Lipitor, Immediately had lower back pain, then pain in my thighs (muscle cramping). It doesn't seem to matter what foods I eat, I always get distention and gas while on this drug. This is an unpleasant (for everyone near me) side effect. Since my Dr. is out of town, and I've only been on the medication for 6 weeks (10mg), I'm stopping it until I get in to see her. I've also had very different cholesterol readings over the years, and am skeptical that any given time you go in for a blood test, it could be very different. It's just that my last one was high (275!) But sometimes it's 170. And it's also been borderline for many years, around 200. (with the good cholesterol very good). I think it's higher these days, because I've been in menopause longer. But I wonder if side effects to any drug aren't a message that | F | 58 | 6 weeks | 1/14/2005 | 1 | high cholesterol | This is the result of taking 1 pill a day for 12 days: On day 3, I felt stabbing pain above a knee. Thought I had somehow injured it - but the pain vanished in a day. The next day, I felt stabbing pain in my spine and I thought I had thrown my back out. I was hunched over to the left and figured it would take a week to get better, but the pain vanished after a little more than a day. I started feeling an odd sensation in the center back of my calves. I put weight on suddenly for no reason and ringing in my left ear increased. Next the calf sensation turned painful at night and started increasing. I figured out these issues all might be caused by Lipitor and stopped taking it immediately. But the pain in my calves continued to get worse for several days! My legs were waking me up at night and were all contorted. I've never experienced anything like it but the nurse said, | F | 54 | 12 days | 1/14/2005 | 1 | High Cholesterol and tryglycerides | nausea.. which progressively got worse the longer I took it. It became so extreme - it was causing me to be dysfunctional. The final week it turned into extreme vomiting and diarrhea. I thought I had a flu bug that just would not go away. As soon as I quit taking the Lipitor - I had my life back. | I also experienced memory loss and extreme tiredness. I might also mention that I started on 10mg and experienced really no side effects.. but when I was up'd to 20 mg it all started to go downhill. | F | 40 | 4 months | 1/12/2005 | 1 | High cholesterol | depression, muscle pain in shoulders, hips and feet. My feet felt like I was walking on small ice cubes when barefoot. Big time flatulence, achilles tendon tightness, dizziness, (one fall). PCP started me on 40 mg 6 weeks ago, quit 3 days ago, feeling better. Muscle pain improved, depression almost gone, fatigue persists. | F | 54 | 6 weeks | 1/8/2005 | 1 | to lower cholesterol | Took Liptor for 3 months 2 years ago. Developed severe thigh muscle pain (both legs involved) and could not walk 75 feet. Took myself off Liptor and all symtoms went completely away. Then my doctor had a bright idea to try Liptor again and the same symtoms came back. Problem is, went off this drug and I still have muscle problem and at times can hardly walk! Now the top outer thigh muscle starts to feel very warm, then get numb and lastly it starts to feel very cool (Like the icy hot patch). This drug is so bad, I just want to get back to my normal self, but I feel that the damage has been done! Am making Dr. appointment to see if anything can be done. | 2-3 month | F | 53 | 2 months | 1/8/2005 | 1 | cholestrol 300 | Severe Joint Pain | Without lipitor total cholestrol is 300 and hdl is 72... don't think i need the lipitor...the hdl is high because of the Chlorella (3grams daily). | M | 52 | 3 months | 1/7/2005 | 5 | High Cholesterol 251 | None that I know of. I am concerned that it aggrivates my Rhinitis and swells the nasal passages. After taking Litpitor (10mg) I started on Nasonex. I stopped taking it about a month ago to see if I can breathe better. | Lowered CHol from 251 to 171 with only 10mg. | M | 41 | 3 years | 1/5/2005 | 1 | high cholestral | Very blurred vision and lower back pain. I had a sudden loss of vision and attributed it to getting older. After reading literature on another medication a light bulb went off and I realized the blurry vision was probably due to the drug Lipitor and am stopping the drop today. My vision is so blurry it feels like I need glasses. | F | 45 | 60 days | 1/5/2005 | 4 | after I had been on it for 3 months,started breaking out in blisters,and my face looked like it was on fire.the dr took me off of it.but it helped my cholestrol | F | 70 | 90 days | 1/4/2005 | 1 | High cholesteral | For about 15 months I experienced SEVERE fatigue, and initially for about three months very bad headaches which diminished in intensity but never completely went away. Insomnia, I would wake up at 3:00 am and be unable to go back to sleep. Difficulty in swallowing and constipation. | I went to 3 different doctors for these symptoms. All of them dismissed my view that maybe the Lipitor was causing all of this even though the symptoms started about 3 weeks after uping the dosage from 20 mg. to 40. I quit taking Lipitor about a week ago - thanks in part to this web site. Within 3 days I was no longer consistently waking up at 3:00 am unable to go back to sleep. Headaches seem to be dissipating as well, and the extreme fatigue is disappearing. I don't expect MD's to be knowledgeable about every drug and I recognize that this drug has probably saved a lot of lives, but it is the attitude that I find irresponsible, that these problems couldn't possibly be caused by Lipitor since as all the doctors said | M | 56 | 15 months | 1/3/2005 | 1 | My Grandmother is in the hopital with side affect of a storke, the DR. now think that it could be a reaction to Lipitor that she has been taking. | | 12/31/2004 | 1 | high colesterol | extreme muscle pain in arms and shoulders Particularly in bed at night.I was on a very high dose (80mg)as I had two heart attacks attributable to blockages | I have been off them for 4 weeks with only a small amount of improvement.I have heard it can take several months to get back to any where near normal | M | 63 | 2 years | 12/31/2004 | 3 | High cholesteral level | I have been on Lipitor for approximately two and a half years. Recently I experienced losing muscular, headache, neck pain and stiffness, fatigue, memory loss, muscles pain on the left side of my chest, depression, sleepless nites and balance loss. | It work great on reducing cholesteral level, but its side effects became another problem for me. I will discuss it with my doctor in my next visit. | M | 41 | 2.5 years | 12/30/2004 | 1 | high cholesterol | Hip pain, knee pain, neuropathy in left foot, general leg pain, mental malaise, arm fatigue especially in the triceps, lack of enthusiasm for familiar activities. Almost all symptoms are now relieved after 3 months off. | This drug helped my cholesterol a great deal and helped to lower my blood sugar which was border line. I will help myself with other methods. I went off it without consulting my primary care. I will never take another statin. There were never studies for long term use. | F | 59 | 2.5 days | 12/28/2004 | 1 | cholestrol | fatigue, muscle crammps, bloating, and intense chest pains. Also depression (on second try). | After one week, realized that I could not handle this! I'd rather live off rice cakes and water.. I Went on a bike ride and felt like I had the flu. Went home, got on the 'net and searched for side effects and was amazed at what I found. Went off lipitor, but my doc convinced me to try again.. After 3 days, same symptoms plus depression and mood swings. Stopped again, started watching my diet more closely and have dropped my cholestrol by 30 pts w/in a couple of months. | M | 47 | 6 days | 12/22/2004 | 1 | high cholesterol | incredible depression almost immediately after I started taking it. crying all the time, not sleeping, reliving of past terrible events that had occurred in my life, like someone pushing a doorbell and holding it to keep ringing and reliving all the terrible negative things in my life over and over again. I kept asking my doctor if there were any side effects like mine and he said no. I had been taking zocor with no problem but insurance company wouldn't pay for it anymore and made me go on lipitor. After about six months I had my docteor write a letter to ins. co. saying I couldn't take lipitor and they agreed to put me back on zocor. But the long term effect of those six months sent me into a psyhcological tailspin that I never recovered from. I went to three psychiatrist and they finally came up with a diagnoses of bipolar disorder. Cause unknown. This was three years ago. The drug ruined my life, I am now seperated after this all occurred and before the lipitor I was an energtic happy family man with a great wife and two kids. | I know it was the lipitor because the only other medication I take is an aspirin once a day. | M | 54 | 180 days | 12/21/2004 | 1 | high cholesterol | My body aches everywhere...gas, depressed and just lack of motivation for just about everything.......I have to come off this drug.....it is awful | F | 53 | 1 years | 12/20/2004 | 4 | high cholesterol | Question: I notice slight swelling of cheeks of my face. (Don't think I need a face lift yet) Facial swelling is listed as one of the side effects but my nurse practicioner doesn't say anything. I am considering stopping lipitor for a while. | F | 65 | 1 years | 12/19/2004 | 3 | high Cholesterol/Truglycerides | I feel fine while I am on it. No side effects. My Cholesterol went up after a couple day without it.I had my blood work and the cholesterol is 291 | I have Hypercholesterolemia | F | 3 months | 12/19/2004 | 1 | calestrol | pain in my left leg and most of my joints | F | 54 | 2 months | 12/19/2004 |