Comparing Atorvastatin vs Rosuvastatin

For High Cholesterol: I have been taking statins for 3 years now and this site rates up there as a good resource for medication experience. There seems to be medication manufacturer/retail people posting here touting how great medications are. My advice is to be aware of anyone making statements that taking medications over lifestyle change is the answer. In 10 years from now if we have 10's of millions of people with cancer and liver disease what will they say then. Health care employs more people with very high salaries than any other profession and to keep it going there is no telling what they may do. Be careful and take care of your health and by that I do not mean taking more medications. It saddens me to see young people under 35 years old taking this drug. Please try all the lifestyle options before drugs.

For High Cholesterol: At 40 mg, I experienced numbness, tingling, and burning in my toes and fingers. Cold fingers and feet as well. This occurred over a period of 3 weeks. Stopped taking the pill, and symptoms disappeared. I experienced similar issues when taking lipitor 40mg as well. I can tolerate doses only up to 20 mg.

For High Cholesterol: Been taking Rosuvastatin 10mg together with metformin for 22 days now. The nausea, body weakness, and dizziness are unbearable now. Have to talk to my doctor to get rid of Rosuvastatin..

For High Cholesterol: Had doctor for 20 years who did not believe in treating cholesterol. My numbers were sometimes high, but I never really payed attention. Moved to another city, New doc said my cholesterol was 225, hdl ok, ldl a bit high. Put me on statin. Numbers dropped , but pain in forearm. I dropped statin 10 years to present. Put on rosuvastatin My numbers 225 cholesterol, HdL good, LdL too high 140. Started 3 months ago. Took mini dose of 5mg every other day. Now Cholesterol 167, triglys 104, Hdl 50 and LdL96. All good. However, eating same but gaining weight, past 6 weeks am being treated for a nasty rash all over arms. The rash is hard to get rid of, I look like I have the plague and I'm getting fat. So what do I do? Go off of it for 10 days and see if these effects go away, or keep taking it. Oh, another thing, my dose is pretty small, but my results are pretty good. Perhaps most people don't need as much as they are getting.???? 67 yr old male