I have been taking Lipitor for several years now, 40 mil. About a...

My husband was on Lipitor for about 2 years. About 3 months ago he got a flu shot....then who knows if it was related, he became very ill. Very tired, fever, felt awful! While he was still in bed ill, his thighs began hurting and burning....I made him stop taking the Lipitor immediately. So here we are three months down the road...he gets severe knee/joint pain...some days that is better and then he gets severe muscle burning and pain. The third kind of pain he gets is these phantom/random sharp stabbing pains. He can barely work. He is afraid to take time off of work to try to recover, because he is afraid that the company doctor will never approve him to come back to work. My husband is a very good man...and we have so much on our plate. Our 23 year old son is profoundly retarded and terminally ill...he is total care! Then my dear husband sold our home, bought a large home, and allowed my mother (heart and kidney failure), my step-father (age 83), and their four adopted teenagers to move in with us...as we assumed the care for them. How many men would do this!? It makes me incredibly sad to see him suffer....and then you have the unknown prognosis.....I am an RN, and right now I do not think too highly of the medical professionals and drug companies! HEARTSICK in Ohio