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To: Carriage Hill

“I was on 80mg of Lipitor (atorvastatin) for 4yrs, but the excruciating hip pain was too much to bear,”

I took atorvastatin for 5 years before I connected it to my lower body peripheral neuropathy, tingling and numbness growing worse and worse in my feet. After I saw an article I decided to do a test and quit the statin cold turkey. My neuropathy got about 50% better and stopped progressing. Can’t undo all the damage after 5 years on that stuff.

Atorvastatin does good for many in control of cholesterol, but I’m lucky I quit when I did. If you tolerate it, that’s great but be aware of the side effects, even if they are not common.

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17 posted on 05/10/2023 10:05:54 AM PDT by Zack Attack

I also have peripheral neuropathy in my feet, but that was from 23 days in the hospital, and not walking all that time. It’s slightly better now that I’m on a different statin.

19 posted on 05/10/2023 10:32:51 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)

Thanks for PN article; I’ve forwarded it to my Cardiologist,

21 posted on 05/10/2023 10:51:57 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)

24 posted on 05/10/2023 12:00:22 PM PDT by Java4Jay (The evils of government are directly proportional to the tolerance of the people. )

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