I'm a 53 year old male,I've been a RN.on cardiac floors for almost 18 years. Prior to starting on lipitor I had been taking Tricor,at that time I started to have frequent chest pains,mid-sternal with pressure. I went for a CT of the heart,stress test,EKG and various blood test all came back negative however I continue to experience the chest pains.Finally I stopped the Tricor and the chest pains also stopped,just to be sure I started to take the Tricor about a month later at half the dose I was on originally, after only two doses the chest pains came back. Now I've started taking Lipitor(at this point I've only taken 7, 10 mg. doses) and the exact same type of chest pains have started again,I was on the verge of going to the ER yesterday. I stopped the Lipitor and the chest pain were almost completely gone today hopefully by tomarrow I'll be back to normal but it seems like the Lipitor symptoms are longer lasting plus I've been very sleepy and kinda foggy mentally.