For People Taking Lipitor Loss Of Memory Is Being Claimed
There is beginning to be reports of undocumented cases of person taking Lipitor to lower their cholesterol suffering from short term memory loss. Many are claiming that while taking Lipitor loss of memory became obvious to people around them and when they stopped taking the drug they returned to their normal memory function. Possibly one of the main reasons these cases go undocumented is that the majority of people taking cholesterol-lowering drugs are of a similar age to those who begin to experience memory loss due to age.
Statin drugs are being widely prescribed to help reduce cholesterol levels in the blood, whether it is produced naturally by the body or contained in the diet. One of the most popular drugs for reducing cholesterol levels in Lipitor. Loss of memory has been reported by several patients on the prescription drug, yet when they reported it to their doctor, in most cases the memory loss was attributed to the natural aging process. Patients who determined on their own to stop taking Lipitor reported that their memory returned to the level it was at before they took the drug.
There are known side effects with all statin drugs, and some of the most common are muscles and joint aches and pains, gastrointestinal problems and headaches. While many these same side effects are known to be present with Lipitor loss of memory is not listed, and therefore often ignored by doctors.
Memory Skills Can Help With Short Term Loss
While aging is one of the most common causes of memory loss Lipitor still is being blamed by many people. However, there are ways that people can improve their memory, or at least the ability to pull things from their memory, even if it caused by the drug. It is not so much that the information is not available for recall. Rather, it is more likely caused by the way the brain has filed the information.
By consciously filing things away in the brain even for those taking Lipitor loss of memory can be essentially be erased. There is an old saying from the early days of computer that said garbage in, garbage out referring to the way information was input into the computer. The same is true with the brain. When events or information are placed in the brain in a random order, the resulting memory will also be random, and in addition to being hard to find, the memories may be jumbled together during recall.
