Aa
Aa
A
A
A
Close
Avatar universal

Does Lipitor give rise to vivid dreaming at night?

Reason I ask is that I have been taking Lipitor since November H.A. and Stent, 10 mgs at first and now 5 mg at night, just before bed time, and since i started taking them, on the 10 mg dosage i had deep lovely surrealistic dreams about all kinds of things, like a movie in my brain every night, fell joyful and happy upon waking, and now with the 5 mg dosage, breaking pills in half as per doctor's orders, I still have very vivid dreaming all night long. I love it. The dreams are not scary or weird, merely surreal and very much based on my own life and memories, and it is a pleasure to have these dreams. I am sure they are from Lipitor and no complaitns from me. Question is:

What is in the Lipitor pills, which ingredient, gives rise to these vivid dreaming dreams?

And does anyone else experience this?

Just curious. Have not done recreational drugs like dope or weed or marijuana since my college days, but these dreams are so surreal i am sure i am on some kind of drug. What is the ingredient in the Lippy pill that does this to me.
8 Responses
Sort by: Helpful Oldest Newest
Avatar universal
I started taking Lipitor and went from 10 to 20 to 30 to 40 mg.  At 30 mg vivid dreams came.  I dream a variation of the same thing very night and it wakes me up every morning and I am being chased or accused of something bad.  At 40 mg the dreams became violent and scary.  Doc had me move to 20 as test and now they are exactly half as intense as at 40.  It is 100 percent the Lipitor.  
Helpful - 1
Avatar universal
I  also have them... But so far I did not associated to Lipitor.

I really enjoy them.. It is sort of surprising second lofe every nigth.

No longer watch TV series... Iive mine.

It is apitty that I am very bad at drawing because the escenarios are
Helpful - 1
Avatar universal
Yes!  I experience the dreams!  I had no idea where this was coming from,
but I started to suspect Lipitor because I just started it, and then the dreams came.  Really intense movie-like dreams.  I actually can remember them also.  Some are murder mystery types, some are me with a meat cleaver protecting myself(lol), but in the dreams I am never frightened.  I hope there is no LSD in Lipitor......
Helpful - 1
Avatar universal
Yes its the statins in the little white pills. I am a reporter heart attack 2009 stent doc put me on 20 mg lippy and dreams were too scary. So he put me d0wn to 10 mg and i take lippy at midnight and dreams dont kick in until 6 a.m. but wow in color mirror my daily life wake up amazed at power of lippy. Must be the statins a mini lsd kind of chemical. I wrote to pfizer pr office but they refuse tivtell me whats in the statins. So i am writing an oped for nytimes. Stay tuned. Long live Lippy. A new kind of recreational drug. I love it. Vivid surreal lifelike biographical. The power of stations effect the brain dreaming. Tell me more. I am going public in nyt with all this. No longer a secret. Email me at danbloom at gmail age 70.
Helpful - 0
2 Comments
Btw, knock on wood, i'm still alive nine years after starting this thread. For my nyt piece i want to hear more stories. Yr privacy will be protected. Pzfizer is trying to shut me up. They cant. I am the son of a doctor. He always told me to fight the drug companies. Even as i love pfizer.
http://www.techeye.net/science/heart-drug-lipitor-opens-vivid-dreaming-chambers-in-some

While the medical jury is still out on this question, the popular heart patient drug marketed by Pfizer is in a class of medications known as “statins”.

Statins work, a heart doctor in Taiwan tells this reporter, by inhibiting an enzyme that results in lower levels of something called LDL, sometimes referred to as “bad” cholesterol, and raises levels of HDL, aka “good” cholesterol.

According to the medical literature out there online, clinical trials have indicated that ”abnormal” –  that is to say, “vivid dreams” –  are sometimes seen in patients taking Lipitor following heart attacks and stent procedures..However, confirmed reports of such dreaming are still rare, occurring in less than two percent of patients studied so far.

Only the Big Pharma companies know for sure, and they aren’t talking.

It’s too bad that the old Omni magazine is gone, and of course, publisher Omni’s Bob Guccione has passed over to the other side. What might be interesting, says a source at Princeton University, would be to see “more public discussion of the effects of legal and illegal drugs on dreams, as opposed to hallucinations”.

“If Lipitor causes pleasant and happy vivid dreaming because it’s a statin, perhaps some statins could be used as recreational drugs,” the professor added, noting with an Isaac Asimov kind of smile: “A drug that could consistently induce good dreams on a nightly basis is the stuff that science-fiction hits are made of, If Lipitor has this potential, someone should find out what’s in it. It could change the way we……sleep!”

Full disclosure: This reporter, not so much for a news story as for his health, has been taking Lipitor in half doses for a year now, following a heart attack and a stent implant. He takes a five milligramme tab of Lipitor each night “around midnight”, and without fail the most pleasant and amazingly vivid dreams follow throughout the night, sometimes as many as three or four, with the last one around 6AM before waking. These Lippy dreams, as he calls them, are not hallucinogenic or frightening, and always follow real events in his daily life in the most pleasant of ways, and the dreams feel more ”real” than dreams he had before going on Lipitor.

So, can Lipitor cause a person to have vivid dreams? Yes. What’s in the drug? Only Pfizer knows for sure, and mum’s the word. Statins, whatever they are, and whatever the specific chemical in them that gives rise to vivid dreaming, are not easy to decipher. What’s in the white Lipitor film-coated pills that turn on the vivid dreaming controls for some people? Repeated emails to Pfizer’s PR department have gone answered.

Imagine if someone made a legal drug with no side-effects that could induce vivid dreaming 24/7? It could change the world. Well, that’s too tall of an order, but if nothing else, it could change the way…..we sleep.

Dr Asimov? Calling Dr Asimov!
17527409 tn?1457508204
i have been wondering id the lipitor was cause of the dreams i have been having. so i did a google and here i am.
my dreams so far are mostly pleasant and at worst just weird. i am hoping jennifer aniston get involved some time soon lol (*-*)
Helpful - 0
1 Comments
I am a 71 year old female..started taking Lipitor 40mg 5 days ago and have been having vivid dreams. The don't seem to be frightening except for one. I was chased on foot and shot in the left shoulder. All the others are just weird and in color. I'm in a black jeep and Obama (why him, I can't stand  him) is dropped off and he gets in the car and under a blanket that I am holding. He tells me secrets. LOL I have started writing my dreams down..looks like some strange reading for my grandchildren after I am gone. They think I am awesome now..just wait.
Avatar universal
very interesting.

Jesus
Helpful - 0
Avatar universal
very interesting.

Jesus
Helpful - 0
367994 tn?1304953593
Your side effect is listed! Insomnia, dizziness, paresthesia, somnolence, amnesia, abnormal dreams, libido decreased, emotional lability, incoordination, peripheral neuropathy, torticollis, facial paralysis, hyperkinesia, depression, hypesthesia, hypertonia.
Helpful - 0
Have an Answer?

You are reading content posted in the Heart Disease Community

Top Heart Disease Answerers
159619 tn?1707018272
Salt Lake City, UT
11548417 tn?1506080564
Netherlands
Learn About Top Answerers
Didn't find the answer you were looking for?
Ask a question
Popular Resources
Is a low-fat diet really that heart healthy after all? James D. Nicolantonio, PharmD, urges us to reconsider decades-long dietary guidelines.
Can depression and anxiety cause heart disease? Get the facts in this Missouri Medicine report.
Fish oil, folic acid, vitamin C. Find out if these supplements are heart-healthy or overhyped.
Learn what happens before, during and after a heart attack occurs.
What are the pros and cons of taking fish oil for heart health? Find out in this article from Missouri Medicine.
How to lower your heart attack risk.