Seems like I'm in the same boat as a lot of people here. My dr. s...

I stopped taking this dangerous drug in 2-08 and I still have many side effects although I take several natural products. It is very sad that all drs. know is to push drugs and do not know or care about the side effects. It makes sense when I found out about the HUGE racket between the drs. and drug co's.

Russ, Boy do I understand what you are going through.

To answer your question, recovery time can vary from lipitor poisoning. Some people are back to their old self in a couple weeks, while others take months to years to recover.

Your experience with the doctor is essentially what many others have experienced. Customer service in this area of medicine is lower than a snakes belly. Doctors fail to listen to patient complaints on side effects and sweep the complaints under the rug.

I would encourage you to visit spacedoc.net where Dr. Graveline explains statins in full, and is on the patients side.

Bobby

I took several different types of stain drugs, lipitor was the first and I got terrible muscle pains and weakness. It came on slowly the first time and it took awhile to associate it with the drug, until I did some research. One of the things these drugs do is decrease the CoQ10 in your body which is important for muscles (the heart is a muscle). It took several weeks for the symptoms to slowly subside. I found the second time when the docs gave me a different statin that I noticed the symptoms faster and they decreased faster after I took a CoQ10 supplement.(In the vitamin aisle). I refuse all statins now although they always try to prescribe them.