Get off the Lipitor, me and me husband, both had the severe joint...

Good that you stopped taking that dangerous drug. If necessary, there are natural products/ alternatives to low your cholesterol or any health issue.

I am so glad that you realised that you/your husband were having side effects and that it happened so quickly because then the chances are much bigger that you will come out of this okay.

It`s not just the Lipitor - it`s all statins - that have the same side effects.

Please don´t worry about the cholesterol issue.

I don´t know my cholesterol numbers (they go up as you get older) and I am 65.

I am not interested - it`s the pharmaceutical companies/some doctors that want you to worry and start taking statins.

Please read "The Great Cholesterol Con" (Anthony Colpo)
The Cholesterol Myths (Uffe Ravnskov)
Overdosed America (John Abramson)
Malignant Medical Myths (Joel F. Kauffman)

I had to "educate" myself because I saw side effects in people close to me. When they started with statin medication, I had no idea what this type of mediction could do to you, but in 2004 - when I finally had an Internet-connection my "research" started.

I was very surprised at what I found.

Duane Graveline (spacedoc) don´t recommend that you stop with statins in one.Taper out the medication.

You will find information on his webb-site (search for spacedoc - not allwed to mention it here).

You can also Google "Stopped our statins". The same suggestion is there if I don´t remember wrongly.

There is also a very interesting article from Weston Price Foundation under "print articles".

I would suggest that you always "research" any medication that you are about to take (unless it`s emergency, of course). It`s not just statins that can harm you and remember that new drugs are not necessarily better than old.

Less safe, because side effects have not appeared in full.

The reason why you hear so much about new medications is that the pharmaceutical companies rather sell them because they can earn more money (patent during a certain number of years).