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I am a 37 year old man who weighed approximately 188lbs when I prescribed 20mg of Lipitor and fish oil to combat my high triglycerides(437) and my high total cholesterol(212) in August of 2009. I have a high stress job and was experiencing occasional chest pain and heart palpitations. In addition, I have psoriasis and psoriasis arthritis and take Enbrel injections weekly. Prior to taking Lipitor, I had normal liver function tests.

At the same time that I began the fish oil and Lipitor, I began to change my eating habits and began a regular exercise routine. I began to feel better and lose weight. I was enthused about my progress. I took my Lipitor at night, however, I found it difficult to get up in the mornings and I was a little more tired than normal.

Roughly 3 months after beginning Lipitor, I developed a condition of EXTREME thirst. Blood tests from my doctor revealed elevated Liver Levels. His first inclination was that it was Lipitor so I stopped taking it ASAP. A subsequent test a week later indicated little improvement in my liver tests. My doctor suggested we give it two more weeks to test it. I just got my tests back and they actually increased!(ALT 197, AST 90, ALP 571).

My cardiologist does not have anything to suggest other than the possibility of a fatty liver, gall stones, or liver disease. His recommendation was that I get an ultrasound next week of my liver and meet with a GI doctor.

My excessive thirst and fatigue continues. I am not jaundiced but I do frequently experience dark urine. I weigh myself every morning and my weight is now down to 174. I seem to be losing very gradual weight now though my eating habits have returned to my old routine. This worries me. I am now worried that this drug triggered something terrible in my system. Does anyone have any advice?

I have been off Lipitor for 2 weeks now. I still have slurred speech. My tongue is moving to beat the band. I have been to 2 neurologists and both have told me that I have "motor neuron disease". This drug is POISON and anyone on it should get off of it. I never had a problem before I started taking this drug. Now I am looking at ALS as a diagnosis. That is awful to think that I might have that. I will find out on April 14th when I go visit my Dr. at Mass General. I will let everyone know what comes out of it.
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Shortly after starting the lipitor I developed hand pain mostly my fingers and especially my thumbs. I stopped the Lipitor and the pain in my hands and finger went away except for my thumbs. I have a trigger thumb which I can bend with a great deal of pain on my right hand and my left hand has now developed a trigger thumb as well. I am wondering if anyone else has experienced this type of side effect as my doctor feels it is just coincidence and that I have developed arthritis. I have not had any arthritic pain in my hands until now.

I was feeling good this time last year, I had never been sick, or been in a hospital except when my son was borned. I had not been to a doctor in over 20 year. When I did go it was because of high blood pressure. That was when my health problems started. I have been to the emergency room twice. Each time tests were run and the results were fine and each time the doctors said that it was anxiety.
I begin to get sicker and sicker, (not because of my blood pressure, but because of the medications that was given to me. The lisinopril was causing really bad side effects and I believe that one of the side effects is anxiety. Each time that I would try and explain about how I was feeling another drug would be added. Xanax was prescribe but I never took it because it can become additive. I have only taken three drugs my entire life, and that is how I know that the way that I feel is not just in my mind, but from the medications.
The drugs were lisinopril 10 mg. for about 6 months, hctz 25 mg. for about a month for blood pressure and Zoloft which I was on for only 7 days at 25 mg. The Zoloft was given to be because of anxiety which I never had until I started lisinopril.
I got really sick in March of this year I began to experience heart palpations, loss of appetite, rapid heart rate, and other flu like symptoms plus a whole list of other things. Even the smell of food made me sick. I think it was the combination of lisinopril and the hctz. I was really scared. The doctor said that it was anxiety, even I know better than that and I am not a doctor. I think the medication did something to my body chemistry or something.
I could not convince my doctor that the side effect from the medications was causing my problems. And the reason that I know this is that I was never sick until I started taking them. Since my doctor refused to believe or listen to me I stopped taking the medications, because I was not getting better, I was getting worst. I know my body better than the doctor.
I still have not fully recovered from what happen to me in March and my doctor has not examined me or anything, just wants to give me more drugs. When I developed tinnitus, I told the doctor about it but I was not examined to find the cause. I have had it since March when I was put on the Zoloft.
How can you prescribe a medication without a test or an examination to determine the cause?
I have had blood work done ekg, x-rays heart and lung were ok. Although, I have been off of all medications for four months, there is something wrong, because I have not really felt well in all this time. I feel older that my years. At this point I am not sure what to do next. It is hard to get help if the doctor does not believe that you are sick. I explained about the pain my neck and shoulder muscles and the numbness in my fingers sometimes, and fatigue. These symptoms may be coming from the tinnitus, but nothing was even done. Now I guess I do have anxiety because I am always scared and worrying about my health