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Posted at 3:43 AM on Mar 24, 2008 by paul_j, #28293
I Take loads of medications & have always tolerated all side effects but Lipitor has floored me. I have only been on it for a month but have ceased last night after waking up vomiting. I spent a day where I had so little energy I hardly moved & was almost suicidally depressed. I have no sex drive, such an itchy scalp that my colleagues were worried I had fleas !. No appetite, flu like symptoms & muscular aches that were unbearable. I still feel woozy headed but can feel some normality returning, my doctor will not be happy as I have scarily high cholesterol that needed urgent treatment, but I am afraid that I have to find an alternative as my reactions to this drug actually made my life unlivable.
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Reply about 1 year ago on Mar 24, 2008 by swedish, #5775

I feel very sad when I read all these comments.

Are you sure you need all those medications?

Are you sure that your high cholesterol is not caused by some other medication?

There is such a thing as - drug-induced diseases.

Go to www.worstpills.org - a consumer organisation without ties to the pharmaceutical industry.

There is some free information on this issue.

Then I would recommend some books etc:

Overdosed America (John Abramson)

The Truth About the Drug Companies (Marcia Angell).

Lipitor - thief of memory (Duane Gravelie)

The Great Cholesterol Con (Antony Colpo)

Book with the same title (Malcolm Kendrick)

The Cholesterol Myths (Uffe Ravnskov)

Also visit:

www.spacedoc.net,

www.ravnskov.nu,

www.thincs.org

I have nothing to do with health care or pharmaceutical industry.

I am an ordinary women who has seen the consequenses of too many medications in people near me.

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