Lipitor and cq10

I have just started taking Lipitor this week and starting searching the internet about side effects. This site has really helped me. I am already having light cramps in my legs and my diabetes has already done nerve damage to my feet so I sure don't need any drug doing it. I also had nausea the first two or three days.

And now that I think about it I have also had headaches off and on for the last few days and I never have headaches. A rash has broken out on my shoulder and I never would have connected it to Lipitor if not for the information I read here.

I am calling my doctor Monday. I got myself into this mess by not eating right, I can get myself out by eating right. Already take CQ10 and fish oil, glad to know that was a good decision.

Thanks

I took 10mg lipitor for 9 months and started having horrible arm pain that would not go away. Then the pain became mixed with weakness and I could not even lift a grocery bag. I am 53 and of good weight and I thought, good health - other than the elevated cholesterol level. My whole family has the elevated levels and there was an uncle who died at 43 of a massive heart attack. So, gave it a try. I got to where I thought I had ALS for sure. The leg twitching started in my calf and moved down to my feet and kept up even now. I have been off lipitor for 8 months. My strength came back in about 3 weeks and has progressively been better. The twitches are still here but am now taking 3 doses of CQ10 3x/day with Bcomplex and folic acid. All is helping and I am hoping the twitches stop. I will not ever take this again.

Hi, I'm a 44 year old male, have been on lipitor for four years. My left shoulder hurts whenever I use it, exercise at the gym is a killer. I have what I call leg fatigue, the muscles in the back of my legs feel like I just ran a marathon after making my kids breakfast in the morning. All I want to do is sit and rest. I just started Cq10. If that doesnt work I'm going to go off lipitor for 30 days to see what happens. Very interesting reading in this forum, good luck to all!!!

I took 40MG Lipitor for 3 years. A year ago I started experiencing extreme fatigue and severe muscle leg pain.
Stopped Lipitor 7 months ago and I have not had any improvement. Enrolled iin the UCSD study and was advised
that some people had immediate improvement when discontinuing Lipitor, some people took months and some people had no improvement, long term. I am taking 200MG
CQ10 in hopes it will help repair the muscle damage. I cannot
walk a city block without pain and extreme fatigue. Quality
of life greatly diminished due to this drug. I am afraid I am
in the group that is permanently disabled.