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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR LIPITOR | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | High Colesterol | Live damage of 80-90% as od 5-31-06. I'm in the hospital waiting a liver transplant after taking this drug for only 2 months. | F | 61 | 60 months | 5/31/2006 | 4 | hypercholesterolemia | Left shoulder pain and right hip and muscle pain over 3 weeks | I'm a physician and initially figured the pain was sports related (although being right handed, I was suspicious about the unilateral left shoulder pain). I stuck it out for 3 weeks until I had a significant limp. Then stopped Lipitor 3 days ago and noticed a very significant mitigation of the pain - about 80% resolved already. The drug worked wonders on cholesterol (down 80 in 4 months), but I'll be starting an alternative shortly. | M | 45 | 4 months | 5/30/2006 | 1 | had a heart-attack in Jan. 06 | it will kill some people | M | 61 | 3 years | 5/29/2006 | 1 | cholesterol | I was a vibrant healthy woman until Easter Saturday, 2006. On Easter Sunday my ankles, feet, wrists, and knees seized up. | I am now off Lipitor and I am assured that I will make a full recovery within six months. I shuffle when I walk and I am only just coping. I am not quite a vegetable, but not far off. I started using the drug in Sept. 2005. In October/November I noticed my hands were nowhere near as strong as they once were - thought it was old age. I also had a strange senistivity in the palms and soles of my feet, also in my scalp - it was uncomfortable blowing my hair dry. It was not a tingling, just a sensitivity. In November, I was running, and my feet felt like led - thought it was old age. In December, my ankles started aching - gee, am I getting old! In January, I started to go to the gym, and I think that this is where my problems really started. My already over-streesed muscles, over a short period of time, went into meltdown. This drug is a terrible, terrible drug and should not be prescribed for anyone. | F | 54 | 7 months | 5/29/2006 | 5 | Total cholesterol | Always very fatigued and sleepy immediately after taking the drug almost like a sleeping pill causes. So I take it before going to sleep. Strange type food cravings e.g. rich fatty foods like cheese, peanut butter, mayo, eggs, and hot sauce or salt cravings too, and I’m not overweight or pregnant either. Periodic or sporadic lower abdominal cramping without the gas and thigh soreness. | Works wonders on my bad cholesterol and tri's but now my good cholesterol is whacked, lowered. Ratio is also a lot better but the lowering of my good cholesterol has my doctor thinking I need yet another drug to bring good cholesterol back up. | M | 39 | 12 months | 5/25/2006 | 1 | High Cholesterol | Massive hair loss, extreme joint stiffness (esp in my right knee - it would just lock-up), heart palpitations, heavy depression, skin and eyes swollen and itching. I have taken it for a long time and only in the last year have these symptoms occurred - perhaps these are long-term usage effects. | I don't know why this drug is even being allowed to be sold! | F | 70 | 7 years | 5/21/2006 | 1 | high cholesterol | took Lipitor for over a year with no negative effects, then gradually developed terrible joint pain, couldn't move shoulders, hips hurt, had to push out of chair like old person | stopped taking it after almost 2 years; it really lowered cholesterol, but at cost of terrible joint pain, loss of sleep, shoulder and hip pain and loss of range of motion. Stopped, and pains lessened in one week; took months for it all to go away | F | 61 | | 5/20/2006 | 4 | M | 60 | 4 years | 5/17/2006 | 1 | cholesterol | On the third day taking just 5mg, stomach cramps and loose stools set in. Gas, bloating and fatigue followed. Just wanted to sleep. Couldn't exercise or eat. Started using anti-acids for the first time in 15 years. Three weeks after quitting the drug, the symptoms persist. I am 41, male, taking no meds (except 72 hours of Lipitor), with no history of smoking, diabetes, etc. This drug (or class of drugs) is potentially very nasty. | M | 41 | 3 days | 5/17/2006 | 3 | cholesterol 250+ | Bloating - GI difficulties, added weight, weakened muscle noticed in arms but not legs | Prescribed 20 mg Lipitor for cholesterol. Took liver test (ok I guess - no response from doctor). Took 25 days and decided otherwise. Will go back to herbal and vitamin sources. Don't trust side effects especially memory difficulties and muscle-joint degeneration that some researchers say. | M | 56 | 25 days | 5/15/2006 | 3 | Diabetes/prevention | Pectoral chest pain- stabbing sharp pains, increasing in frequency as time passed. | My cholesterol was already great at 140 with triglicerides good too. Doctor wanted me to start this medication, 5mg/day, along with Mavik 1mg for blood pressure (mine was already averaging 106/70)to prevent arterial damage due to my type 2 diabetes. My total cholesterol was lowered to 128 and triglicerides to 56 after a year with a 2.something ratio. Heart disease runs in my mother's side of the family and bp problems and the diabetes in my dad's side. I have been on this dose for 1 year and noticed pains beginning after several months and the pains are getting more frequent and noticible. I am off the drug for a self trial period to see if the pains diminish. I am going to see the physician in a week and am going to mention the pains so I am curious as to her opinion. Also a note, I am still fertile and should not be prescribed this drug due to unkown pregnancy side effects- interesting that it was prescribed to me anyway. Doctor told me to go off of it if I wanted to get pregnant b | F | 43 | 1 years | 5/12/2006 | 5 | Cholesterol | None that I am aware of. | Used other cholesterol medication and lifestyle changes, but cholesterol did not reach normal levels until I was put on Lipitor | M | 44 | 2 years | 5/11/2006 | 3 | high cholesterol & triglycerides | heaviness in the legs, foot and leg cramps at night and even long muscles beside spine, those are the worst. rashes on forearms from sun sensitivity, scarred from itching and scabs (was taking St John's Wort for depression which also causes sun sensitivity, bad combination) cannot take at night or I'm up all night in bathroom. | Less side effects from Lipitor than any other statin drug I've tried. Pravachol pushed cholesterol out my skin in boils. Lopids made me feel like I was coming down with the flu constantly, low grade fever and just felt sick all the time. Lipitor keeps me from getting sick, 3-4 days off of them and I'm up all night sick. | F | 51 | 11 years | 5/11/2006 | 1 | High Cholestorol | Where to begin? Overall fatigue. Now get a lot of sinus colds(major pressure pain). Also used to be able to walk 3 miles easily. Now cant walk 50 ft without feeling like I am having a heart attack. Nausea. | I was on Lipitor of a total of 3 weeks before I had my first chest pain walking to car. Now a month off the drug I still have the pain. | M | 35 | 3 weeks | 5/11/2006 | 1 | told to | Depression,muscle pain,night sweats,lack of concentration,SUPER dry skin...bla,bla,bla... all the bad stuff you have read so far. | Here is my stupid joke when talking to my friends... Yeah I have ALS, MS, Lupus, Lyme Disease, Fibromyalgia and one more thing, aaaa aaaaa what's it called? Oh yeah, Hyprochondria! I have been off it for 8 weeks and still hurt. I cant believe how many people have felt the same way and thought the same things I did! This is POSION, POSION I tell you! Stupid doctor says learn to deal with pain... That is just unacceptable! I have been on and off all the statins for about 3 years, off forever now that I know I don't really have some terrible disease! | M | 47 | | 5/6/2006 | 1 | told to | Depression,muscle pain,night sweats,lack of concentration,SUPER dry skin...bla,bla,bla... all the bad stuff you have read so far. | Here is my stupid joke when talking to my friends... Yeah I have ALS, MS, Lupus, Lyme Disease, Fibromyalgia and one more thing, aaaa aaaaa what's it called? Oh yeah, Hyprochondria! I have been off it for 8 weeks and still hurt. I cant believe how many people have felt the same way and thought the same things I did! This is POSION, POSION I tell you! Stupid doctor says learn to deal with pain... That is just unacceptable! I have been on and off all the statins for about 3 years, off forever now that I know I don't really have some terrible disease! | M | 47 | | 5/6/2006 | 1 | high cholesterol | tinnitus | F | 52 | 24 days | 5/6/2006 | 4 | High Cholesterol | Muscle Pain,esp calve muscles, knee pain, neck pain, dizziness? vagueness, dry eyes. | Works well at lowering cholesterol, BUT, at the expense of muscle pain, & general degradation. | M | 57 | 6 months | 5/3/2006 | 3 | High Cholesterol | I have Rhuematoid Arthritis for 35 yrs and have been on many arthritis meds. I currently am on Relefen for inflamation, Prednisone 5mg, every other day and Enbrel injections once a week. I have no problems from these drugs. Eight mos. ago another doctor put me on Lipitor 10mg daily because my chol was 240. Over a period of 6 mos., it went down to 159, which was great, BUT I started having terrible aching pain in my arms about that time which was radiating down my arms from my shoulder to my hands and I could not sleep well at all. I lost all the strength in my muscles and was fatigued all the time. I was blaming my arthritis for my pain for months and months. I started taking extra Relefen and Prednisone which helped only temporarly. I could hardly lift a glass of milk without using both hands, I was so weak in my arms and hands. One day it just hit me...."Maybe it's the Lipitor". It was the newest drug I was taking. So, I just quit taking it and within 3 days my arm | I suggest anyone who develops a bad symption within a week or month of going on Lipitor, or any other statin drug, quit taking it and call your doctor. There are some important reasons why some people HAVE to be on a statin in some cases. | F | 69 | 8 months | 5/3/2006 | 1 | HIGH CHOLESTEROL | DIZZY, BALANCE, HIGHER BLOOD SUGARS, CARPAL TUNNAL, CRAMPS, JOINT PAIN, MEMORY LOSS, KIDNEY PROBLEMS | I STARTED ON ZOCOR AND CHANGED TO LIPITOR AFTER 1 YEAR BECAUSE OF BALANCE PROBLEMS. AFTER A COUPLE OF YEARS I BEGAN TO EXPERIENCE BALANCE PROBLEMS AND JOINT PAIN, BUT THE DOCTOR DID NOT THINK THAT LIPITOR WAS CAUSING THE PROBLEMS. BECAUSE OF HEART DISEASE THE DOCTOR WANTED MY CHOLESTEROL DOWN TO 150 IT WAS AROUND 200. HE PRESCRIBED 40 MG OF LIPITOR FOR SEVERAL YEARS AND EVENTUALLY ADDED GEMFIBROSIL, AND NIACIN BECAUSE OF HIGH TRIGLYCERIDES. AFTER A YEAR OF TAKING THESE DRUGS, MY TYPE II DIABETES BECAME UNCONTROLLED AND MY KIDNEY READINGS BECAME BAD. I WAS THEN PUT ON INSULIN. I BEGAN TO DEVELOP JOINT PAIN AND NEUROPATHY. THE PAIN IN MY HANDS BECAME SO BAD THAT I HAD TO HAVE CARPAL TUNNAL SURGERY. I COULD NOT WALK WITHOUT FALLING. I FINALLY BECAME SO DEBILITATED THAT I HAD TO RETIRE EARLY. THE DOCTORS TOOK ME OFF THE LIPITOR AFTER THE KIDNEY READINGS BECAME SO HIGH. HOWEVER THEY DID TRY TO PUT ME BACK ON THEM SEVERAL TIMES. I HAVE BEEN OFF STATIN DRUGS FOR FOUR YEARS AND I HAV | M | 66 | 6 years | 5/3/2006 |