In Reply to: thick ankles with lipitor posted by kathy on November 13, 2000 at 18:44:31:

: my husband took lipitor for nine months & had many side effects including muscle pains, fluid build-up, this all lead up to kidney failure, conjestive heart failure. He had emergency cardiac catherization done which showed no heart disease & all his arteries were excellent, but this was all caused from lipitor. He went off the lipitor & within days was better. People should be aware that this is a dangerous drug.

After they took him off it, what did they have him take to lower his cholesterol? Seems a lot of drs. just shove the pills at you before trying anything else. Of course I realize some folks have tried alternatives with no results and had to go to meds. Guess each case is different. Hope he is doing ok now.