I am a male of 67 years old. I took Lipitor for a year, and afte...

I, took Lipitor. Drs. don't know anything about the side effects from the dangerous drugs they push. (They thought I had arthritis). I stopped lipitor in 02-08 and still have the side effects. I am taking natural products to help and to lower my cholesterol.

The red yeast rice that you were taking . . . . was just as bad as the lipitor.

I can help you, if you are interested.

I would encourage you to read the recent article (Feb. 2008) by Dr. Peter Langsjoen, MD/Cardiologist: http://www.lef.org/magazine/mag2008/feb2008_Alleviating-Congestive-Heart-Failure-With-Coenzyme-Q10_01.htm

The following information from this article is pertinent to your muscle pain/weakness and fatigue:

"All statin drugs block the biosynthesis of both cholesterol and CoQ10, which explains statins’ common side effects of fatigue, muscle pain and muscle weakness, and a worsening of heart failure. When CoQ10 levels are lowered by statin drug therapy, one of the first changes to occur is a weakening of heart muscle function, known as diastolic dysfunction. This has nothing to do with diastolic blood pressure, but rather represents impairment in the relaxing or filling phase of the cardiac cycle. After heart muscle contracts, it takes a great deal of cellular energy, or ATP, to re-establish the calcium gradients such that muscle fibers may relax. Thus, if diastolic dysfunction is severe, it can result in congestive heart failure. In 2004, a study published in the American Journal of Cardiology showed that diastolic dysfunction (heart muscle weakness) occurred in 70% of previously normal patients treated with 20 mg a day of Lipitor® for six months. This heart muscle dysfunction was reversible with supplemental CoQ10."

I hope this information will be of help to you.

Have you started taking coQ-10? Your muscles are completely depleted of this supplement and you need to replenish them, or the pain will never go away. I too was on lipitor for only 4 months, but lost a lot of muscle tone throughout my body. I have been off of it for seven months now, but I am still not back to normal. You can tell both of your doctors that things don't just automatically get back to normal after you stop a statin. It is a poison that stays in your system for a long time--maybe forever! My liver enzymes are still quite elevated, but seem to be slowly coming down every month. I hope that by Christmas they will be back to normal. That would be a year since I stopped the lipitor. Our doctors need to do more research on the side effects of the medicine that they prescribe to us. Ultimately we pay a high price by having to live with the damage they cause!! Read through all these posts on this site, and get more info from the internet as to what will help your muscle pain. Noone seems to have any answers for us that have been affected by this poison. I'm wondering if there really is an ultimate cure in the end???

I agree with you the Lipitor is the cause. You will get
better with time. Take aloe tablets they help and for
the cholesterol take guggle, and psyllium in drinks.
Massage your muscles every night.

take guggle for cholesterol and aloe for muscle pains
masage muscles every night. you will get better. It
was the Lipitor i agree.

I'm a 54 yr male in pretty much the same boat as yourself. If you take coq10 make sure you get a HYDROSOLUABLE variety, oil gels and powders are a waste of time. 3 x 100 mgs a day decreased my pain by about 25% and increased my energy about the same over 3 - 4 weeks. I took statins for 4 years had the problems the whole way through but didn't know medicine could cause it. I've been off them for 7 months and though I have improved massivley I can't do anything physical, I'm far weker than my wife. My moods, agitation memory atc have certainly improved. Reproduction is still very dead. Please tell me about your experience with prednisone, I want to talk to dr about comming off my narcotic pain killers and perhaps trying something like yours. Please let's know. Cheers from New Zealand

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