anyone else get joint pain from Lipitor? Was put on that the same time as pred

Not sure if that is also affecting me.  I hate these horrible drugs!!!

I got on pred and simvastatin at the same time, then on lipitor (it's supposed to help my kidneys, I don't have high cholesterol).  When I got off pred, I had such severe muscle and joint pain that I could only take one step at a time (I am 35) and every part of my body would hurt, I would wake up in pain and be in pain all day long.

Back on pred so muscle pain is fine, but I just don't want to be on the lipitor any more (the muscle pain went on for 2.5 mos after stopping pred and did not get any better).

I am going to call my Neph who prescribed lipitor and see if they can change it or take me off of it.

I exactly know what you talking about, when you wake up from yr sleeping and feel that every joint is on fire. you also cant determine where the pain is coming from because you feel sometimes that it comes from no where.
anyway,i had a lot of problems about arthritics related to uc and actually that was the worst part of my uc. i prefer to go toilet more than 10 times a day than wake up every three hours and eat painkillers like sweets just to go back to sleep.

if you just have the mussels and joints pain just these days, these are the pred tapering side effects .. to solve it just try to taper slowly as much as you can.

if you have this regularly don't stop pred just keep taking it and don't care about anything else. i kept saying that I'm not gonna take pred what ever happened to me and that ended with a knee draining operation and more powerful drugs like methotrexat. the doctor warned me about a hip replacement surgery because i was living a normal life depending on painkillers (15 tablets a day) even when he asked me to go out of the college until i get healed. my right hip was very close to be damaged. ( that what the MRI showed)

i might look young to you but i just tried to give an advice . so whenever that happened again just accept taking pred.
The good thing IS that i passed my exams for the last year and i went to the UK to finish my degree there.

Bear in mind, Determination might be stronger than steel.

Thanks