TRICOR (MICRONIZED) Reviews (FENOFIBRATE)Average Rating: 1.9 (325 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare TRICOR (MICRONIZED) with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR TRICOR (MICRONI | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 3 | | 11/14/2004 | 3 | M | 41 | | 10/13/2004 | 3 | 900+ Triglycereides | Only been on 145mg Tricor for a little over a week. I have dreams that would make Stehpen Kings hair stand up. My skin feels prickly/hot and my joint and muscle pain has amplified somewhat. But what choice do I have? Can not tolerate Niaspan (blistered my mouth). I'm going to stick this out for a month and see what happens. Dramatically, altered my diet and quit alcohol. Lost 10 lbs. my first week. In the gym no matter how much it hurts. Sometimes the cure can be worse than the problem. I'll continue until my numbers come down. More than likely I will only take a half tablet after first month. I need to lose 30 more lbs. Hopefully, that will get me back to normal. No pain, no gain I guess. Thanks to everyone for posting and raising my awareness! | Guess many of should just face some facts. WE ARE GETTING OLD! With that being said, those of us in our forties and up have probably worked long and hard lives. Many of the symtpoms described sound to me as the natural process of aging. For those of you who have suffered severe organ damage, I am really sorry to hear that. I've been HIV+ for 24 years and don't really know what its like to be totally healthy. Pain is just a part of my world...so I guess I can tolerate this med. better than others due to my conditioning to pain. I feel really bad for the younger folks too. What a lifetime battle you will have. Get out and excerise and eat clean everyone. Then get off the darn drugs! I intend to. I want to live. Going to tuff this one out. | M | 43 | | 12/17/2009 | 2 | high triglicerides | constipation, bloating, severe back pain | I started taking Cimbalta at the same time, which I should have spaced out for my fibromyalgia. The Cimbalta is supposed to be for muscle pain/aches, but it's not doing anything I believe because of the Tricor | F | 49 | | 9/20/2007 | 1 | High Cholesterol | My boyfriend started taking this med about a week ago, he hasnt experienced many side effects, at least he didnt know it untill now...He had been having the feeling of being sick all the time, almost as if he was run down or lacking energy, and having muscle pains and tightness. we had never thought to check out the side effects on the med, untill he had a problem in the sexual department. I decided to look up the side effects on the internet, and found this site.. Needless to say he wont be taking them pills anymore, and he wont be seeing that dr. either. thank you all for your comments...and helping me realize what was wrong. | The dr prescribed tricor without even giving him a chance for diet and exercise to see what would happen. I wouldnt give this med to my dieing dog! | M | 30 | | 2/1/2008 | 1 | Hi Cholesterol | Started Tricor about a month ago. Noticed some flu like symptoms 2 weeks ago, last week palms of hands, feets and privates started itching. I stopped taking tricor on last Sunday, continued to itch. I went to the MD on Tuesday. He said continue to stay off the medicine and see if that helps. If it doesn't start taking it again. On Wed. my left hand started hurting which I assumed maybe some arthritis. By Friday afternoon both hands, wrists and arms were swollen and hot to the touch. I am 46 years old and feel I tolerate pain above average but this had be the worst pain of my life. I was unable to move my hands and arms. I was unable to remove my clothes, take a shower or place my arms on pillows. We called the MD he started me on Ultram for the pain. It took about 12 hours to get the pain undercontrol. Another 12 hours later and I am able to slowly move my arms above my head and move my fingers again. Last night I too maintained a temp of 99.9. This evening, Sat., I am still in the bed | M | 46 | | 2/21/2009 | 1 | High triglycerides | AWFUL HURTING FEET | I was getting to the point that I could not walk because my feet were hurting so badly. I was to start therapy this week on both feet. Went to a podiatry doctor.Paid $60 for inserts for my shoes.I had to get PVL done on both feet...showing no problems. I stopped taking TRICOR last week and it is amazing my feet seem to be getting back to normal. I am now taking Zocor and feel really afraid of taking it after reading so many bad comments. If anyone has any help on high triglycerides and minor cholestrol problems please let me know. | F | 57 | | 3/2/2009 | 1 | Hypertriglyceridemia | This is a followup to an earlier posting a year ago. I am still not back to my baseline state of health. The weakness in my legs has persisted to the point that I no longer am able to ambulate any appreciable distance without having to rest. The Achilles tendinitis that was brought on by the administration of TriCor, has not been amenable to any medical modality that has been tried. It has been a year since I stopped taking this terrible drug (likened by one poster here as Drano, appropriately so), and I feel it has severely negatively impacted my health for the rest of my life. | With the comments here, it is hard to believe that something has not been done about this medication as of yet. | F | 58 | | 6/2/2006 | 1 | High Cholesterol | My father (over 70) took this medication and immediately experienced flu like symptoms. High fever, weak, "not himself." Stopped medication. Three months later he died. Never felt himself "since tricor." Enough said. | M | 38 | | 11/9/2006 | 1 | High Trigylcerides | Took Tricor over 15 years. When dosage was tripled, I experienced gradualsymptoms reaching excruciating pain in arms, mainly right arm, leg and rib cage; but basically throughout body. Tricor did bring down my trigylcerides but at a cost of what feels like I'm dying. | My biggest concern is that although I stopped taking Tricor over 6 months ago and am taking a pain reliever I continue to have severe side effects (pain) and cannot lift anything over 5 lbs because I become almost incapacitated for days. Would like to know if someone has recovered after these experiences. | F | 68 | | 7/24/2009 | 1 | high triglicerides | difficulty in breathing,anxiety. | F | 68 | 45 times | 4/25/2006 | 1 | "high" triglycerides | none | A Nurse Practicioner prescribed this for me because my triglycerides were 300 (funny, 10 years ago, medications wouldn't even be considered unless you were over 500. Just like with blood pressure, they keep lowering the target numbers just so they can sell more drugs). Anyway, I got the prescription filled and was ready to start taking it. As soon as I read this website, that bottle went straight into the garbage can where it belongs. By increasing exercise and making one MINOR change in my diet, I cut that number in half in less than one month. There's an article in BusinessWeek magazine from 2008 called "Do Cholesterol Drugs Do Any Good?" I advise everybody here to Google this article. It should be REQUIRED READING for anybody even considering taking drugs to lower their cholesterol. | M | 34 | 0 days 160 1X day | 9/12/2010 | 1 | High Triglycerides | Never took medication because of concern of how big pharma uses doctors as prescription pushers. I knew my doctor would push a statin drug after the nurse called with my blood test results. So I wanted to get patient info since i had serious suspicions in taking a statin or any rx for that matter. Notice how when patients report pain and other side affects the doc prescribes a hydrocodine to relieve pain, not addressing the cause just the symptoms and usually by prescribing another drug. This is one of the most addictive substances (Opiate Based pain killers)known to man. This is the same old Allopathic school of medicine that doctors are indoctrinated into by utilizing regulatory agencies to control the education of Doctors. The same ones who brought you the cut slash and burn method of cancer control. | additional google searches: Dr. Russell Blaylock M.D. author of Exitotoxins the Taste that Kills, Murder By Injection written by Eutace Mullins, G. Edward Griffin author and lecturer of A World Without Cancer the Story of Vitamin B-17 I would try exercise and diet before taking any medication from a doctor of Allopathic school. Look for a Homeopathic doctor, u know the quacks and charlottins that treat the cause not symptoms with small weakened doses of the infecting agent and especially using nutrition and vitamins to strengthen your immune system. This site is awesome for this purpose. To get info on drugs from real people who have used them and not be limited to web sites and doctors funded by big pharma that spout nothing but benefits for the drug and hide the truth of toxic side effects. | M | 29 | 0 days | 2/5/2009 | 1 | tri's in the 500 range | Doctor's office only this Friday reccommended that I start taking tricor. Decided to do a bit of research as I'd heard before that there were some side-effects; none of which I'd ever suffered from. Happily, I found this site prior to taking this drug. Thank you one and all for sharing what my physician of some 15 years overlooked to mention. I'll go the diet and and exercise route. | M | 52 | 0 days | 11/4/2007 | 1 | no | Oct 15th : Blood work came up 513 (fasting) triglycerides. Doctor did a second one next day after results(after lunch) and it came up 550. He prescribed Tricor. Did not get the medicine. Did slight changes my diet..30 minues of running every day. Dec 4th: Second test...Triglycerides come up 151 and cholestrol is 149. I am a vegetarian. Asian Indian. Old Diet : Wife does not make oily/spicy food. Breakfast : 2 Bread Slices with Jam and Butter Lunch : Decent proportion lunch Snack : 7 to 8 buscuits/cookies and sometimes chocolates. Tea 2 times a day with 2 table spoons of sugar each time....sometimes cake...sometimes deep fried indian dishes before dinner. Dinner : Heavy with lots of carbs....fruits....go out and have indian food. Basically uncontrolled diet and weighed 150 pound New Diet (and still 150 pounds): Breakfast : bowl of ( Oats + flakseed + strawberry + blueberry) Lunch : Decent proportion lunch / 2 Dinner : 3 phulkas (thin wheat bread) and with lots | M | 35 | 0 days | 12/6/2007 | 3 | High tris | Not yet, too soon to tell | What my local pharmacist said was the new "Antara" a fenofibrate, in combination with Lipitor does not produce the same side effects as the Tricor and Lipitor combination. Why? don't know. No, you won't find a listing for Antara. My cardiologist is a devoted vegan, fish once in a while, skim milk, no eggs or dairy other than the skim milk. He looks great for his age - 70's - coherent, must know something that the other doctors don't, I figure... After talking with the pharmacist I decided to not take the Antara and Lipitor together, but to separate them by 12 hours. Just to see if I could track which drug was having greater effects upon muscles, if it comes to that... | F | 56 | 1 days | 5/29/2008 | 1 | high cholestrol, triglicyride imbal | I was taking Crestor. My cardiologist was concerned when I told him I was experiencing muscle and joint pain. He ordered that I stop the Crestor immediately. My next blood test showed elevated cholestrol and triglyciride imbalance. I called my internist and he order ed Tricor. After less than one day I have generalized joint and muscle pain. I have osteoarthritis and peripheral neuropathy from diabetes. This new pain is more severe and quite unlike anything I've experienced before. I will not take Tricor again. | M | 1 days | 8/30/2008 | 1 | good col. is low | major lower back pain, pain in hip and leg muscle cramps, weekness and extreamly bad muscle spasms in lower back, right leg and arms. the pain is as if you would hold a 50 pound box in your arm and not against your body for 1/2 or so. felt like i put in a very heavy work out in. | i stopped taking it for three weeks now,after i was on it for about 7 weeks pain is going away. but my doc think that it is an old injury that was fixed 11 yrs ago, but i had no problem with my back untill i started taking this drug | M | 34 | 1 days | 2/7/2005 | 1 | high triglycerides**** | GOOD GRIEF--I THOUGHT I'D TRY AND DO WHAT THE DOCTOR WANTED--AND TRY YET ANOTHER RX---AFTER TAKING MY FIRST PILL THIS EVENING---I FINALLY HAD MY TURN ON THE COMPUTER TO CHECK OUT TRICOR---A DOUBLE GOOD GRIEF!!! WELL THE PILL IS IN ME NOW--BUT THANKS TO ALL OF YOU WONDERFUL PEOPLE SHARING YOUR EXPERIENCES---I'll NOT TAKE ANOTHER ONE---WE HAVE TO LOOK OUT FOR EACH OTHER!! AND I THANK YOU ALL--- | F | 64 | 1 days | 9/10/2007 | 5 | +1200 triglycerides | gas, mild intestinal cramping, diarhea, constipation. Seems to have increased symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome. | Since I started taking it trigs and cholesterol have dropped to 150ish. Having been on Lopid and another similar drug before, Tricor has a lot less side effects. I had to quit the other meds because it messed up my digestive system. Take metamucil regularly to help. Have not had any muscle problems that seem to be common, I do have a physically active job and work out with weights regularly. | M | 48 | 2 days | 6/5/2007 |
TRICOR (MICRONIZED) (FENOFIBRATE): Fenofibrate is used along with a proper diet to help lower "bad" cholesterol and fats (such as LDL, triglycerides) and raise "good" cholesterol (HDL) in the blood. It works by increasing the natural substance (enzyme) that breaks down fats in the blood. Fenofibrate belongs to a group of drugs known as "fibrates." Lowering triglycerides in people with very high triglyceride blood levels may decrease the risk of pancreas disease (pancreatitis). However, fenofibrate might not lower your risk of a heart attack or stroke. Talk to your doctor about the risks and benefits of fenofibrate. In addition to eating a proper diet (such as a low-cholesterol/low-fat diet), other lifestyle changes that may help this medication work better include exercising, losing weight if overweight, and stopping smoking. Consult your doctor for more details. FDA Approval Date: 1999-06-30 (Sources: U.S. Centers for Medicare Services, FDA)