Suggest Treatment For Severe Leg Cramps Due To Lipitor Side Effects

Posted on Sun, 24 Aug 2014

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Question : What to do about severe leg cramps as the result of taking Lipitor for 15 years?? Any tips

Answered by Dr. Deepika Patil (1 hour later)

Brief Answer:
take multivitamin

Detailed Answer:
Hi Mam,

Welcome to HealthcareMagic .

Liptor is known to cause muscle cramps. But if they are very serious and associated with dark coloured urine then you need to consult your doctor and rule out severe muscle damage as it indicates so.

If the pain is not too frequent and you are able to do daily activities then you may take multivitamin with antioxidant combinations which may help.

If the pain is not allowing you to do your routine activities then you might need to consult your doctor and discuss regarding change to different drug in same group or different group.

Make sure you are not taking any other drug which interacts with liptor and increases its side effects.

Hope I have answered your query . If any further queries are there I would love to help .

Regards
Dr.Deepika Patil

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