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Took Lipitor for a year, had extreme muscle pain.

by Jonas18, Oct 04, 2006 12:00AM

Tags: Lipitor, extreme, Pain, chronic, Arthritis, progressive, test

I was on Lipitor, shortly thereafter suffered pain that I thought was arthritis. After a year I stopped taking it with Docs permission. That was five months ago and feel great. IS there lasting damage?

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by achyone, Oct 05, 2006 12:00AM

Not usually as long as you stop it in time before any severe damage has been done. It is more often progressive when on the medication and if you stop it, it stops it where it is at. Have a CK blood test done, it checks you muscle function/damage.

by Carol in PA, Oct 05, 2006 12:00AM

Hi, you are lucky that the symptoms subsided.

See this:
Permanent Side Effects from Statin Drugs
by Duane Graveline MD MPH
http://www.spacedoc.net/statins_permanent_side_effects.html

Carol

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