I tried Lipitor about a year ago. I had high cholesterol, but I'm a vegetarian. Figure that one out. I only eat fish for meat, but I do eat dairy products. My old doctor pushed the drug on me for years; no matter what I tried, the cholesterol level stayed high. I finally agreed, and started taking it.
I began to get the worst muscle and joint aches you could imagine. It even hurt to hang up a coat or open a door! I quit taking it after three weeks, much to my doctor's dismay. She wanted to give me other statins, but I said no. When I asked her how long it would take to feel better, she said she didn't know! It took almost a year for the muscle and joint pain to go away. I gave up worring about my cholesterol levels. If this vegetarian has a heart attack, so be it. Do some research; those cholesterol lowering drugs can have some pretty bad side affects, some of them pretty serious. I read that the pharmacutical companies that make those drugs want to double the amount of people taking those drugs. There is a profit motive there that cannot be ignored. And I'm not sure how good they work; they may have negligible effects on preventing heart attacks and extending your life. Do some research. If you live right, maybe they are not needed.
