Atorvastatin For A While? What's The Proper Dosage?
Oct 8, 2012
Hi. Can you help me with something? In the sea of the heart pills and blood pressure pills, my wife has another medicine in her "collection". She was feeling bad and she went to see her doctor. He was not there, so one older lady received her. She told her that everything is OK with her but that she needs to take Atorvastatin for a while. What that means - for a while?
Can you tell me who is prescribed with this medicine and do you even have a idea what is the proper dosage?
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