In my last doctor’s visit, he put me on Lipitor for my high cholestoral. Well dummy me didn’t check out the side effects when I started feeling badly. During a chat with a co-worker about how I was feeling, she mentioned it sounded just like what he husband went through when he was on it. Muscle aches that felt like molassas. Only he had a lot more pain than I was experiencing.
I went to the Lipitor website and sure enough, one of the side effects is aches in the muscles.
The most common side effects of LIPITOR are:
- Headache
- Constipation
- Diarrhea
- Gas
- Upset stomach and stomach pain
- Rash
- Muscle and joint pain
This is just one day without the medication and I feel 60% better than I had been.
I will wait and call the doctor on Monday and let him know and get switched to something else.
I should know better by now, but this one time I didn’t check, I had a side effect that was making me miserable.
Tags: Cholestoral, Lipitor, Side Effects
December 6th, 2007 at 7:29 pm
Bless your heart!
It seems nowadays some meds aren’t worth it because the side effects are worse than what’s actually being treated!
December 7th, 2007 at 5:57 am
Isn’t that the truth? You know I really didn’t want to take the stuff, but I had messed up in not eating right and my cholestoral had gone through the roof so he said “four months” only. I am feeling 100% better this morning …
December 9th, 2007 at 4:32 pm
They had to put my husband on something else…it didn’t agree with him, either.