Joint Discomfort

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My husband has recently started taking 20 mg lipitor and is experiencing severe joint discomfort after that .Doctor has advised to lower the dose to 10mg .How can we cope with this,if anyone has experienced the same.

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Lipitor contains the active ingredient Atorvastatin, which is used to help lower cholesterol.

The joint/muscle aches are very common side effects of this class of medications and in some people they are so severe that they have to discontinue use of the medication and try something else.

Lowering the dose may help, but it could still take several weeks for those effects to taper off.

Did his doctor suggest anything else he could use in the meantime to alleviate it?

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Thanks for the insight...his doctor has asked to stop that ,as according to him any other statin can cause the same symptoms and he just wants to make sure if it's lipitor causing this problem.

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