Comments on: Lipitor: Reduces Bad Cholesterol, But…

By: Bill Sharp

Bill Sharp — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:23:05 +0000

If lipitor causes the above problems, (and I believe it does) when are the American people going to rise up and say no to the doctors and drug companies. I believe this time is long overdue.

By: Alice

Alice — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:28:00 +0000

I did fine on the lower doses of Lipitor for the first several years than begin having serious problems. I didn’t think it was the Lipitor at first but stopped taking it for a while on 2 different occasions and all my symptoms disappeared. I’ve been taking Lipitor for about 10 years and now for the 3rd time have quit taking this poison pill permanently after talking to my new doctor. He told me to quit taking it and not let anyone else make me take it after telling him some of the problems I was having saying some of them were life threatening.

I have been aware of me having high cholesterol since about 16 years old, but back than there were absolutely no treatments for many years. I’ll be 62 in about 2 weeks and have lived without statins all this time. My heart has always been healthy and had low blood pressure. And such a high level of HDL that the doctor’s can’t figure it out. But, after I started taking Lipitor, my blood pressure went up to dangerously high readings and was even taken out to the hospital a few times because I though I was having a heart attack. Started having swallowing problems because of phlegm would fill my stomach keeping my food from going down. The longest it took to get this phlegm up was about 2 hours-scary indeed. Also had a lot of diarrhea, Was in so much in pain that I had to hold on to everything just to get to the bathroom and back. And Ibuprofen had no affect on this pain caused by the lipitor.

I also worry about my brother who is the same age since he is taking 80 mg of Lipitor, which is the maximun amount. He has to take prescription pain killers now because his body is so full of pain. I’ve talked to him about it and he says it’s arthritis. But I will never believe it since he didn’t have this terrible pain before. I could have easily blamed my pain on arthritis as well since I have arthritis-but the pain went away when I quit taking Lipitor.

So Lipitor’s side affects rears it’s ugly head in many ways.

By: CP Hill

CP Hill — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:46:32 +0000

Lipitor almost killed me in 5 days. My doctor put me on Lipitor on Thursday. I began aching all over on Friday night. I could barely get around on Saturday. All I wanted to do was stay in bed. I began going into a depressed state. My glucose level soared. By Sunday I was hurting so badly and so depressed I was sobbing uncontrollably and had horrible unmentionable thoughts. I am not the type person that gets depressed ever! At work on Monday, I would tear up anytime someone spoke to me. I had enough! I looked on the internet to see the side effects. All the symptoms were there–aching, glucose change, and in mouse print, oh-by-the-way style, was depression. After stopping the Lipitor on Monday, by Wednesday I was back to normal. EVERYONE should know that Lipitor can cause very bad depression.

By: Dan Alexander

Dan Alexander — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 00:15:43 +0000

I was on Lipitor for years after my insurance company told the Doctor Zocor was too expensive. After I experienced muscle pain and weakness, the Doc switched me to Zetia, which blocks absorbtion in the digestive tract.. It is much more effective for someone whose liver is not over-producing cholesterol and only needs it for dietary reasons.

By: RS

RS — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 16:41:28 +0000

I take all of these drug ads with a grain of salt. They seem to be designed to be deceptive because otherwise they wasted a lot of money developing a drug that nobody would want.

50 years ago it seemed that drugs were about healing people; now they are often about hiding people’s problems. If you have cholesterol problems, it’s probably because of your diet, which is usually directly influenced by TV ads and the lifestyle thrust upon us by society.

I figure that if the average person has to take daily/weekly drugs to stay healthy, then we have other problems…last I knew, biology dictated how survival works but these drug companies are pushing that only science can keep us healthy and without that you’re a sad specimen of a human being.

If a drug helps you get to a healthier life so you can stay there, that’s one thing, but then the drug is not needed afterwards. But the way these are marketed as lifetime drugs, I see it as the equivalent of what bulimics do to keep their weight problems down.