Lipitor made me sick as a dog soon after I was put on it. Doctors put me on another drug they said was not a statin and I got worse on Gimfibrizol (sp?).
Gimbribrizol isn’t a statin but related to it. That’s where I lost my legs. I was at an excellent exercise level, too, and right after starting the Gim-etc I couldn’t walk twelve feet without sitting down due to exhuastion and pain.
Subsequently I’ve asked a lot of people about their experiences and every last one of them had trouble with statins. One fellow, on hearing my experience took himself off it and his liver problems went away.
By the way drs. prescribe this stuff you’d think they are making money on it as well.
Did you get your legs back? I did mine after dropping lipitor and then later lovastatin, which was told to me as being different than lipitor, but had the same dibilitating side effect of making my legs hurt like he** and unable to walk. Hopefully you quit soon enough to save your legs. A friend of mine won’t quit them and can’t walk around the house.
Subsequently I’ve asked a lot of people about their experiences and every last one of them had trouble with statins.
That was my exactly my experience with statin drugs! leg cramps and lower back pain along with inablity to walk any distance at all.