July 28th
2008
7:56 AM
I have been on Lipitor for about 4 years. Now I have an arthritic right knee and the left knee has a little bit of arthritis. My arthritis started getting really bad in both legs my left leg was just as bad as my right leg. Muscle pain was tremendous and getting up and down stairs. furniture, and the car. Then the day before Memorial Day I could hardly move, I thought I was losing both my legs. I could only walk a little bit. No energy. I too had blurred vision with this drug but the doctor said that it probably was just my diabetes. I hurt from the shoulders all the way down to the ankles..It felt like every muscle group was involved. Earlier this year the doctor put my Lipitor up to 40 mg from 20 mg even through my ldl was only 93. My last ldl was 67. The doctors say your cholesterol cannot go to low but I am wondering with all the side affedts I had. I took myself off Lipitor on Memorial Day this year and I feel better. The pain is gone except for the arithritic pain but it is not as bad as what it was on Lipitor. Soo I am done with statins I will lose weight and exercise.
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March 28th
2008
7:51 PM
My son took singulair for over two years. He is now 9. Foe the last few years he has had a Jekyl & Hyde personality. Sweet as can be one minute then he will fly off the handle, calls us names, screams, breaks furniture. He also becomes emotional very easily. We have been baffled as out two other sons have never behaved in this way. I am now wondering if there is a connection with his behavior issues and his having taken Singulair for a long term.
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March 9th
2008
1:19 PM
hi board:
I just wanted to throw my 2 cents in....
I went on NuvaRing about 3 weeks ago. Immediately (!?!?!) I began sleeping about 13 hours a day (10 hours per night, with a 3 hour nap every afternoon). I have NEVER been a napper, and I never have needed more than 7.5 hours a night. Additionally, everything seemed a bit off-- on three occasions I got into weird funky mood swings and rearranged all of the furniture in my house. (again, this isn't really me). Appetite increase, for sure, and the gas was just nearly. Decreased sexual drive.... I usually am a sex fiend, and I actually passed up sex once.
On the flip side, it sure was easy! And, no dryness or itchiness or anything.
Anyways, not for me. I think I am going to try Yaz.
I hope you all have better luck than I do!
(ps-- to those who worry about online fora: I am not crazy. Just a happy law student trying to avoid an untimely pregnancy....)
February 23th
2008
7:25 PM
I love this page! I have been taking Levoxyl for about 6 months now and my joints are killing me. Especially my wrists and ankles. It hurts to even pick up a half gallon of milk or hold my kids. I am also so exhausted all the time. I was put on 50mcg when I started the medicine but I was not having any symptoms before I started taking the medicine. I am trying to wean myself off of the pills and am down to 25mcg. I am taking b12 and b6 to help fight the fatigue. I also am having a huge problem with my periods, I get them every 2 weeks, and they last a week. This is not fun at all. I am also getting cold sores like crazy. Before I started taking this medicine I would maybe get 1 a year, if that. Now I get at least 1 a month, sometimes 2. It is really frustrating. My skin has changed, so dry and I look like I have aged 10 years. My hair is brittle. I am looking into a more natural route to take, maybe the Armour thyroid would work.I have been to the Doctor who just tells me that it is not my medicine and could be something else. I know it is not something else. All of these symptoms started right after I started to take the medicine. I am going off of it to hopefully feel better. Thanks so much for all your posts out there!!!
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December 17th
2007
1:40 PM
I had the Mirena inserted over a year ago.And up to this point had no problems. For the past month, family, friends, and co-workers have mentioned (very nicely) that my hair seems to be thining. I had noticed some hair loss, which seemed to be more than normal, and just shrugged it off. But then my kids were complaining and pulling off strands of long blond hair from their clother, and the furniture, and saying; Mom what's going on, your hair is everywhere?. Then I really knew I had a problem, and have noticed considerable amounts of hair all over my clothes, and I do seem to have less hair. I made an appt. to meet with my obgyn.
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February 25th
2006
6:07 PM
I gave this to my 4 year old daughter and I don't even know where to start. My daughter was pretty sluggish the first two days but I thought it was because she did not feel good. She started feeling a little bit better so I stopped the medication. My daughter is a totally different person. She is so hyper I can not settle her down she is jumping off furniture, and I talk to her and it is like she can not hear me. Her eyes are dialated and she acts like she can not stand herself or her skin. My uncle works for the ER and I called him he said that she is having withdraws from the medication. That it is a family to sudifed and everyone responds different. I would be very careful before you give your children or yourself this medication.
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June 21th
2005
6:18 AM
My daughter has been on Advair 100 since October 2004 when she first developed asthma. She is 4 1/2 years old. She recently started a cough and our doctor increased her Advair to 500 until the cough goes away. Within 2 days of the increased dosage she has become very agitated, thrashing herself against us and furniture. She screams at the top of her lungs and will not cooperate with us. We have to hold her down and try to soothe her until these "fits" pass or she is exhausted. We took her off the 500 Advair after we related the fits to the increased dosage (these fits came before when her dosage was increased to 500). Within 24 hours of going back to the 100 Advair she has returned to our sweet, loving 4-year old. I'm glad I thought to check out this site and found that excitedness and nervousness are side effects of Advair.
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Zyrtec (1) Mirena (1) NuvaRing (1) Singulair (1) Advair HFA (1) Lipitor (1) Bromaxefed DM RF Syrup (1) Levoxyl (1)
September 22th
2008
12:13 PM
My 5 year old daughter was started on Zyrtec about 10 days ago (Dr.s orders) and WOW... not good. We can not see any changes in her allergies but her moodswings are way off. Last nite she told me "daddy that clear medicine I take now, makes me feel busy and funny". When we ask her why she is acting rude and being ugly, she says she doesn't know. She has been taking Singlar for about 2 months and Nasonex for about 1-2 years. HELP!!!!!
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