I have been on Lipitor for almost 5 years. I started with a low d...

I suggest that you stop taking this dangerous drug before you have more side effects. . . . the drs. and the drug co's are doing a SCAM on anti-cholesterol drugs . . . .it is all about $$ . . . your body/mind needs cholesterol to function.

You certainly are not the first to have their hair fall out on Lipitor. I have read many accounts like yours before.

Consumers live with the perception that cholesterol is bad, and that we must lower it to save us from heart attack or stroke. Actually cholesterol is vital to our health.

Half the heart attacks happen to people with high cholesterol, and the other half happen to people with low to normal cholesterol. ( source: the CDC ) so it comes down to which half you want to be in. Your risk of heart attack is essentially the same either way. Of course those who are in the cholesterol lowering business will brush aside this fact because their livelyhood depends on you buying their drug. Its all sales and marketing and consumer perception.

Cholesterol is vital. Without it you will lose more than just your hair. You would lose your life.

Bobby, what is CDC the source for hear attack data please? Pollyanna I'm male and amongst all my other serious side effects bad hair thinning was one of them. The very serious question you need to ask yourself is "what else is happening to my body from this poison that I don't know of yet?" Have you been extra tired, emotional, disturbed sleeping, bad dreams, sore joints or muscles, changed toilet habits, gazing, can't be bothered doing things you useds to do with ease, thinking and memory problems, bruising easily. This statin stuff came from Satin himself. My hair has grown back it took about 9 months B4 the improvement really showed. Good luck from New Zealand

CDC stands for Center for Disease Control