In Reply to: High Cholesterol, & Lipitor posted by Patricia on June 14, 2000 at 15:35:32:

:I also had POLIO when I was a child, I am 58 now and just went to the Dr. because I have been having pain in my wrist and up my arm. The Dr. said that I had tendonitis and took tests, she found that my colestoral is 276. Since I watch my diet closely she put me on Lipitor. I then started having pain up my whole left side, into my neck and face. My Dr. is stumped. I have done some reading on Post Polio syndrome and found that a high protine diet is supposed to help, so I quit the Lipitor and started eating high protine foods. It has helped greatly. I am wondering if anyone else that had polio when young has high colesterol, and what other symptoms do they have. I have CFIDS/Fibromyalgia, and I've also had POLIO as a child. (Fortunately I was one of the ones that had a mild case, and only a slight limp, and a shorter leg resulted from the Polio) As a result, at around the age of 39 I got sick. My doctor put me in the hospital and I was diagnosed finally. After suffering symptoms for about four years. Anyway, medications were tried, and on a visit for a physical it was discovered my cholesterol was 345. Previous to that it was closer to normal, but starting to get high, and I refused to go on medication for it. When it hit 345 though I had no choice, but to go on Lipitor.
: Well, Since I already had pain in most of my body I figured it wouldn't hurt to try Lipitor for a while. Within a couple of weeks or so, my arm started to really hurt, and the burning sensation was unbearable. I went to my doctor, he said it was Tendinitis and that I'd have to put up with it. When it didn't go away after about a month I went back to him, he then refered me to an Orthopedic doctor, who confirmed that it was tendinitis, and recommended Physical therapy which I did. (I had been told I could go for more therapy, but I have yet to hear, from the place I went, to go back. I was refered to an orthopedic surgeon who also confirmed tendinitis.
: Meanwhile I'd been online and looked up lipitor, only to see that the side effects can be very serious, including muscle and other burning pain etc. So I too decided to take myself off the lipitor.
: I've been off the lipitor for at least a month now and my arm feels much better, although it's not perfect. (I think I do have tendinitis or carpal tunnel syndrome from the use of this computer, but it's not nearly as intense as it was when I was on lipitor. I Truly believe that lipitor is responsible for my pain also. Thankyou for listening. Trisha.