http://www.medications.com/effect/view/37618 Seems like I'm in the same boat as a lot of people here. My dr. started me on Lipitor 40mg last year then raised it to 80mg. I started getting slight buring type chest pains with some sharp pains on the upper right side on my chest. The sharp pains increase Wed, 31 Dec 2008 12:47:59 -0500 http://www.medications.com/effect/view/37618?item=15624 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 a http://www.medications.com/effect/view/37618?item=15624 Wed, 31 Dec 2008 21:36:43 -0500 http://www.medications.com/effect/view/37618?item=15631 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 wit http://www.medications.com/effect/view/37618?item=15631 Fri, 02 Jan 2009 01:26:15 -0500 http://www.medications.com/effect/view/37618?item=15648 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 d http://www.medications.com/effect/view/37618?item=15648