Re: Rx: Arthrotec anyone? - Laxity: Lipitor

February 6, 2004

I didn¹t know about the eye hemmorage. Sigh; and that would be huge

for ppl with EDS (I don¹t think your wife is the one with EDS?) I

will make sure that I ask the pharmacist about it. I try to not

keep grapefruit juices in the house because I know it reacts to many

medications. I know that there is a danger for muscle breakdown

with it (symptoms being aching joints etc ... how would we even

know?) but I didn¹t know that was with combination of the lipitor.

Also there are a lot of speculation about lipitor and ALS

connections and Coenzyme Q depletions. (I keep forgetting to take my

Coenzyme Q)

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No, my wife is the only one in the family who does NOT have EDS. For

any of you taking Lipitor for high cholestrol and getting good

results without side effects just ignore my next comments, but I

personally HATE, LOATH AND DETEST Lipitor. Risk of eye hemorrage is

a KNOWN potential side effect of Lipitor, yet my wife has seen not

less than three doctors who flat DENIED the possibility and had to

be shown the pages in the PDR to prove it to them. In addition, she

had an exam for new glasses with a new optometrist the first of the

week and mentioned the eye problem/Lipitor bit to him and his

reaction was " Uh huh! " He knew about it and wasn't surprised. My

wife's vision is still not back to normal after over a year of

dealilng with this, having already gone through two separate

hemorrage episodes and cataract surgery because of it. The cataract

itself was DIRECTLY caused by the medication used to treat the

hemorrage - and this info came straight from her doctor. Getting a

cataract was deemed a " lesser problem " than the hemorrage, so the

doctor just went ahead and used it - but at no point was she EVER

told that it was even a possibility. Some things really push my

buttons and this is one of them.

AS for the grapefruit issue, this is currently not considered a

significant problem by either the FDA or the Canadian equivalent.

The ones raising the red flags are those doctors who have been

researching dangerous drug interactions in general.

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