Motorcycles symptoms and conditions

I have been on lipator about 4 years 40mg.. started having leg pain. Being me I thought being over weight was the cause. I can hardly walk 20 steps. Doctor took me off the drug after speaking loudly about the symptoms. Unable to sleep an entire night. Life seems to not exist. Depressed....lazy...constant pain....take the max amount of Excedrin every day...no relief. If I could just wake up and have one day of painless living Oh what a blessing. This is unreal. When on rare ocassions I shop at the mall. I use the shopping cart as a walker. Sit down at every available bench or chair. Used to be fairly active. Rode motorcycles, fishing,yard work. Just everyday take for granted stuff. Its awful. Only been off the drug a couple days. I will be thankful when the pain goes away. P.Ode that a drug Rx'ed can cause such devastating affect on a human being and still be on the market.

I turn 60 this year and have been riding motorcycles all my life, but after being on Lipitor for the last two years, I haven't had the upper body strength to lift my motorcycle off of its side stand.I have had trouble sleeping, keep tossing and turning due to discomfort in my lower back and right hip. The pain is almost debilitating when trying to get out of bed or rise from a sitting position. I go to a real good Chiropractor once a month for the back and hip pain, but he says it may be the statin's that is doing the damage, because he can't find anything wrong except for the normal adjustment . I also just found out that I was born with only one kidney and the waste from the deterioration of my muscle mass is affecting the proper operation of the one kidney Some of my friends and my wife say the my speech has become a little slurred It seems that no matter how much I exercise, my upper body strength and back pain does not get any better, they seem to be getting worse. I tried a little experiment and stopped taking the Lipitor for a couple of weeks and the problems seemed to get a little better. I told my doctor this and they said that I NEEDED the Lipitor, so they cut the dose from 20mg. to 10mg. Now the pain has returned, so that tells me that these Statin drugs are not good for me - - - they might be good for other people, but if you are taking a statin, you should do a lot of research on them. The side effects they say MIGHT happen is only the beginning. For me - - -the cost is not worth it - - -in more ways than one.