From: DoxieLover (faoh1pool0-a03.cinc.tds.net)
Subject: Re: Lipitor side effects
Date: August 22, 2001 at 8:39 pm PST

In Reply to: Re: Lipitor side effects posted by Anna Lee Heinl on August 22, 2001 at 9:48 am:

I have been trying for some time to get off some of my medications. I work in the medical field and have just started to examine all of my meds to see why I feel so bad all the time. I just turned 55. Since I have begun on all the medicines I am on ten years ago, I have gained 110 pounds. I am seriously depressed, my muscles hurt so bad I can't walk from my bed to my bathroom, I am dizzy, I sleep 14 hours a day (more on days I don't work), my feet cramp at night till I cry and my legs and feet are swollen 75% of the time, I feel feverish and have constant diarrhea. No matter what I tell my doctor, she just gives me another pill. I am going to discontinue some of my medicines, starting with Lipitor. I would rather have heart disease, or even DIE than to feel this way. My quality of life is non-existent. I am going to quit clonidine as I think that puts me to sleep. I am on three other blood pressure pills and I think, now that I work at home, my blood pressure has been better. If I can stay awake, I can exercise and lose weight, thereby eliminating the need for so much blood pressure medicine.

I am going to stop first the clonidine, then the Lipitor, then the hormone replacement. I am ten years past menopause, I never had menopausal symptoms and no on in my family has osteoporosis, so I don't think I need it.

Something tells me I am going to feel better just dropping those three. I will keep my other blood pressure medicines, my reflux medicine and my antidepressant. The heck with the rest. If this is living, I'd rather die.