Well, you boys may not believe this, but my wife and I both were on Lipitor. I have been taking it for several years now with no side effects until recently. I started having muscle cramps and muscle pain lately. Since I lift weights almost every day, I kinda thought that had something to do with it. After reading some stuff online about statin side effects. igot off it. After a couple of weeks everything went back to normal.
Here is the weird part, my wife has recently been complaining of how hard it is for her to remember things. Like people's names, addresses....etc. Then, she FORGOT to make our house payment! I knew that something was bad wrong at this point, as she has never done that. Then, about 2 weeks ago, I heard a doctor talking about statin drugs on the radio. He was talkinga bout the terrible things that have happened to people because of the statin drugs. Some people have been crippled by its use. Then he started talking about the wave of memry loss reports of statin drug users. I told my wife about it and she got off of it immediately. It has been about 2 weeks now and she is no longer having memory problems. The doctor on the radio said it is better to have high cholestrol than take a chance of a statin drug damaging your body permenantly. He also said that the majority of heart attack patients have normal cholesterol.
I will have to switch to something else. I advise all of you to get off it now, before soemthing bad starts happening.
