Rapid onset symptoms and conditions

I too had rapid onset of vision problems when I started on teh medication. Within three days of starting a 10mg dosage, my vision was so bad I could no longer read. I stopped the medication and went to my eye doctor, who has treated me for several years for a complete exam. He found nothing wrong with my eyes, no retina problems, and no changes to the eye I had surgery in a few years ago. He believed the problems stemmed from the medication since his exam found nothing else. I have now been off the medication for a week and my vision still has not returned to normal. I can read again but with great effort, the vision is still blurred although I can drive during the day. I have found little in the side effects on the medication to check but in my case I don't believe there is anything else that could have caused the problem.

I am a 54 year old male who was put on Lipitor by my Dr to treat cholesterol levels of 6 to 6.5 around august 2007. I used the drug through until early Jan 2008 when I started to notice continuous muscle pain and injuries especially in my lower back buttocks and arms. I constantly had tingling/burning sensations in my large leg muscles, finger tips and hands. My eyesight was deteriorating rapidly and I had a constantly fuzzy brain which was hard to focus and concentrate. I thought that I had rapid onset Alzheimer's or similar. I was finding difficulty controlling/getting nerve instructions to muscles such as bowels, prostate, mouth. My Wife accused me of slurring words and my balance became unstable and I had a series of minor falls.
I started to wonder about my medication and as I only used two and Lipitor was the newer one of the two I stopped taking it. With in Five days most of the symptoms were disappearing or rapidly improving. After ten days I decided to reintroduce Lipitor and within four days they were all rapidly returning. It was at this point that I started to do a lot of research and found all of the sites highlighting the varied side effects attributed to this drug. None of which had I been informed of by my doctor or Pharmacist and most of which I was experiencing. Needless to say I now no longer take the drug and most things have returned or are returning to normal including the eyesight, balance and nerve control. This drug needs to be withdrawn from use before too many people suffer lasting debilitating damage or even worse, death.

I was prescribed 750mg Levaquin for a sinus infection - having never taken this antibiotic before, and never having any allergic reactions to others I thought nothing of my 20 day prescription. After 7 days on this medication, I started feeling HORRIBLE - achy, flu like symptoms, and worst of all, every muscle, joint and tendon ached so badly that I had trouble walking at times. I had such bad nightmare on the 9th day of taking this, that I was afraid to attempt going back to sleep. After thinking all thoughts of bad things that could be happening to me (lupus, rapid onset of arthritis, etc.) I finally googled Levaquin and, fortunately came up with this site that showed others that had similar reactions to this terrible medication. After taking this for 11 days, I threw the remaining pills in the garbage and will never take this again. My only question is, when does this get out of your system where you will feel normal again? I have not taken this medication for eight days now and still my muscles, joints and tendons ache - at times, my body just feels flu like still. This is very frightening as I have never had a bad reaction to a medication and it is hard to believe that an antibiotic can wreak havoc on your muscular system such as this one has. Thank heavens for this website - I may have ended up taking Levaquin for the prescribed 20 days and who knows when these aches and pains would go away - they are far worse than the sinus infection!

55 yr old male. Extreme stiffness in left shoulder began shortly after I began taking zocor. Losing range of motion. I thought it was rapid onset of Rheumatoid Arth. Never thought about zocor. Dr said it was frozen shoulder, no known cause. Prescribed phys therapy. Therapy helps but I noticed that when I left zocor at home and did not take it while on vacation my shoulder loosened up considerably then returned when I went back on meds.
After reading some of the other comments, I think I will try a longer break.
As I think about it my knees are a lot stiffer on getting up from a chair too. Will see if the break from Zocor helps that as well.