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What Causes Fatigue Along With Headache, Nausea And Confusion?

I have been having unusually tiredness, headaches, nausea, confusion, memory problems, dark urine, pain in all the joints in my body which seems to get worse as the day goes on and is even more severe each passing day than the one before, this taste like I have a piece of garlic stuck in my teeth that just won t go away no matter what I do, bad breath, for days now and Sunday morning when I woke up and tried to walk it felt like my hip and knee were going to come out of socket! Sunday afternoon I started to feel weak and shaky. Sunday evening the muscles in my left arm and right thigh started to bother me and it s only gotten worse since. Now it s my whole right leg. Half the time I feel like I can t breathe because my ribs hurt just to expand to draw air into my lungs. I just had blood drawn Friday morning for some blood work my Dr ordered so I was trying to get through till the tests came back on that. I realized about an hour ago that the only change in my diet or exercise or routine is the addition of Lipitor to my prescribed medications on Feb 20th. I forgot to take it on Saturday and Sunday. What s happening to me? I read these are side effects of the Lipitor just a few mins ago and now I m concerned if I should go to ER or not because I haven t taken it since Friday but these symptoms have been getting worse in that time not better!
Wed, 11 Jul 2018
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Hello and Welcome to ‘Ask A Doctor’ service.
I have reviewed your query and here is my advice.

Lipitor is a statin drug that lowers bad cholesterol levels. Besides it's primary effect, Lipitor (and all statins) may have too side effects.
These might be confused head, tiredness, muscle ache, rhabdomyolysis signs etc. Your gave me a heavy situation so please have a blood test to see you have signs of rhabdomyolisis or kidney disfunction cause of Lipitor.

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What Causes Fatigue Along With Headache, Nausea And Confusion?

Hello and Welcome to ‘Ask A Doctor’ service. I have reviewed your query and here is my advice. Lipitor is a statin drug that lowers bad cholesterol levels. Besides it s primary effect, Lipitor (and all statins) may have too side effects. These might be confused head, tiredness, muscle ache, rhabdomyolysis signs etc. Your gave me a heavy situation so please have a blood test to see you have signs of rhabdomyolisis or kidney disfunction cause of Lipitor. Hope I have answered your query. Let me know if I can assist you further.