My dr. put me on Lipitor. I took it for 4 months. At the 4 month ...
| Posted at 2:54 PM on Jan 28, 2009 by colleen_58, #38447 |
Colleen,
Odds are you will improve slowly over the course of time, but to be perfectly honest, a few people do experience permanent damage. But lets not think that way. I want you to think positively about this, and concentrate on getting better.
Your physician lacks education on the matter.
The lipitor has already left your system. But it can leave damage in its wake. Cholesterol is very important in our health, and restricting the liver from making cholesterol leads to the very problems you described.
Cholesterol is important in maintaining the muscle cell walls. It serves the same purpose in cell walls as 2x4 studs in your house walls. They are very important.
Cholesterol also forms the fatty insulating layer around our nerves and aides in proper nerve impulses. Much like the insulation on the wires in your house.
"Bad" cholesterol is also used by the body to make steroid hormones and vitamin D.
Statins also deplete CoQ10 from the body. CoQ10 is needed to make ATP which gives cells their energy.
Lipitor has a NNT score ( Number Needed to Treat) of 100. That means that 100 middle aged males had to take the drug for 3.3 years to spare one male a heart attack. So in a nutshell, Lipitor has an absolute risk reduction of only 1%.
For females there was no risk reduction.
Estimates on muscle problems from lipitor are up to 30% of those taking the drug.
The drop out rate on lipitor is also about 30%. about 1/3 quit taking the drug for one reason or another.
Therefore, The RISK,REWARD, DROPOUT factor of lipitor is-
30% RISK / 1% REWARD / 30% DROPOUT
And for that we get to pay $1,000 per year.
Good that you stopped taking this dangerous drug. I stopped taking it 1 yr. ago now. I still have side effects and continue to take natural products to help them. Drs. don't know about the side effects of the drugs . . they just continue to push them . . .since all they know.
My husband was taking Lipitor years ago. He started experiencing muscle pain and weakness, but he thought it was due to his age and the physical strain that his job required. When his doctor finally got around to monitoring his liver enzymes, they were sky-high! The doctor told him to stop taking Lipitor IMMEDIATELY!
We expected his symptoms to improve, but after months my husband was still experiencing the pain and weakness. He went to a specialist who performed a muscle biopsy to determine the cause. The specialist told my husband that he had "mitochondrial myopathy" of the cells in his muscles. The good news - this is not a degenerative disease, and he should not expect it to get worse. The bad news - the damage was already permanent and the symptoms would not get better. The specialist said this was not a congenital disease - my husband had not been born with it. The question the specialist didn't seem ready to answer was if Lipitor was the cause of the problem.
Right now my husband is in the hospital with chest pain symptoms. I feel this is also damage caused by Lipitor, but I don't know how to prove it. My recommendation - don't ever start taking Lipitor.
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