ZOCOR Reviews (SIMVASTATIN)Average Rating: 1.8 (893 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare ZOCOR with similar:
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| 1 | Cholesterol 210 | Update from 10/09/09 | I have been off Zocor for 3 months and have been gradually improving. My shoulder pain has gone, and my hip joints feel normal again. My left big toe has stopped hurting, but the neuropathy in my right foot has been diminishing only minimally. I hope everything's back to normal within the year. I also have improved memory and better spirits, so I know I made the right decision for me. I haven't bothered discussing this with my doctor since he is so brainwashed by the Pharma matrix, he wouldn't be able to hear me anyway. | F | 53 | 2.5 years | 1/4/2010 | 4 | high cholestrol | Started on 10mg of simvistatin [generic Zocor]. In 24 hours felt sick. Upset stomach, nausea, dizziness, headache, loss of balance. Have developed itching [rash] on right shoulder. Waiting to see if might be connected. Dropped my cholstrol by almost 100 points. However Dr. told me to stop taking until after holidays. As of Jan. 1st I started on 5mg [splitting the 10mg pill] Waiting to see what's next. | F | 59 | 21 days | 1/3/2010 | 1 | High Cholesterol | Started at 20 mg a day, but doctor felt the numbers weren't coming down fast enough, so it was increased to 40 mg. After reading through this page, it all makes sense. Headaches increased, sharp shooting pains, stiff neck, increased anxiety since I didn't know what the hell was going on with my body, awful leg cramps, increased weight, to the tune of 15 pounds since I started this drug in April. No sex drive whatsoever, much to my husbands dismay. | I also had the tingling/numbness in my hands and general weakness in my arms. Doc told me it was too much time on the computer...wells sorry, that's my job! Sleeping, what I would give for a full, uninterrupted night of sleep, I'm up 3-4 times everynight. I'm taking myself off of it until my next doctors appointment and see what happens. | F | 43 | 9 months | 12/27/2009 | 1 | At night cannot walk as legs give out! | F | 84 | 3 months | 12/25/2009 | 1 | HIGH CHOLOSOTOL | MY SIDE EFFECTS TERRIBLE BODY PAIN ALL OVER, CHEST PAIN, BACK PAIN, I FEEL LIKE I WAS IN A CAR ACCIDENT. THATS HOW BAD IT IS. IM STOPPING IT NOW. AND HOPE I WILL FEEL BETTER I DIDNT HAVE THIS PROBLEM BEFORE TAKING ZOCOR. | F | 63 | | 12/24/2009 | 2 | high total cholestorl 236 | posted previously (12/9/09): I am adding this message to my previous comments in hopes of helping others. My loss of sexual function was helped greatly (after stopping simvistatin) by taking 1500mg of Acetyl L-Carnitine. While I am not an advocate of taking supplements or vitamins I was relieved to note almost immediate erectile improvement with this one. It is available without RX. If you try this and it works, you may want to relate your experience here in order to help others. | I have found out that simvistatin is able to get into the brain. Also, some speculate that since lipids are necessary building blocks of hormones, testosterone could be lowered by lowering the availability of lipids with statin therapy. What ever the reason simvistatin appears to have caused my loss of libido. My doctor has given me an RX for Crestor and I asked him for an order to get a baseline testosterone level before I start Crestor. Although Crestor isn't supposed to cross into the central nervous system (brain), it is going to take a great deal of courage to start taking it as my sexual function is only now (2 months after stopping simvistatin) approaching what it was before simvistatin. Life without an ability to have sexual experiences is very depressing. I can now totally empathize with postmenopausal women who SUFFER from loss of libido. It is hard to believe that a heart attack from high cholesterol could be more life altering (unless it killed you). | M | 62 | 60 days | 12/20/2009 | 3 | High total cholesterol | Started Simvastatin 20 mgs about two months ago. No problems until recently when started to get pain in front thighs/groin bilaterally, making walking difficult and painful. Also some stiffness in the feet on getting up in the morning. Was beginning to think I suddenly needed a hip replacement when it occurred to me to Google side-effects of Simvastatin. AFter reading so many posts describing similar symptoms am now going to stop the Simvastatin and see what happens. | While I'd like to have a lower cholesterol level, if the price of that is feeling prematurely old - as I have started to - I think I'd rather take my chances with high cholesterol. The link between high cholesterol and heart disease is still not proven after all. For those who can afford it a CT heart scan will show whether there is any 'furring of the arteries' or not. I had one and it was negative, which reassures me for now. | F | 50 | 2 months | 12/17/2009 | 4 | HYPERCHOLESTEROL | Been taking Zocor for several years and noticed more age related aches and pains (I'm 67). Recently was diagnosed with minor (partial) rotator cuff tendon tear NOT due to any increase in exercise or unusual activity. Doc recommended simple shoulder exercises surgery is an option if pain increases or range of motion declines. I play a lot of golf but rotator cuff is not an issue due to the swing plane (not like tennis or volley ball). Will report back to you in 6 weeks... | M | 67 | 3 years | 12/9/2009 | 2 | high total cholestorl 236 | TOTAL and profound loss of libido (first time in life I had no interest in any sexual interaction), loose stools/cramping, strange itchy feeling on head, poor sleep, hot at night, unable to maintain erection for long, but very favorable effect on prostate discomfort. I think it depleated already age-lowerd testosterone. | 20mg of simvistatin for 60 days, literature says side effects usually go away in a week or two after stopping. At one month after stopping, my libido is returning but ED continues, loose stools/gut caramping and hot nights are better. I have an appt with Dr., he said on phone simvistatin should make erectile probelems better not worse! I hope we don't get into an argument. | M | 62 | 60 days | 12/9/2009 | 1 | HIGH CHOLESTEROL, CHD | Took for two years before side effects showed up: constant diarrhea, occasional vomiting, severe chills then sweats, difficulty breathing so severe that was in ER two times about it, admitted to hospital and 1 1/2 days with oxygen mask, weakness, and really got so bad it threw me into atrial fibralation four times! Oh, yeah and my liver enzymes shot up too. THIS AFTER TWO YEARS with no side effects! | This stuff, if it isn't junk, should be very carefully monitored. I had to literally fight with my doctor before she accepted my getting off it. After only a week off it the diarrhea and other stuff is gone! | M | 73 | 2 years | 12/6/2009 | 1 | was told to lower my cholestrol | I have been ill for a year cough depression muscle pain | I hrsave taken myself off this med as I felt I was dying | F | 78 | 3 years | 12/4/2009 | 4 | lower cholesteral | none | M | 59 | 3 years | 12/3/2009 | 2 | High Cholestrol | Tired all the time w/ pain in back, legs and constant headaches. Most recently I have had twitching in my left eye. When I wake up each morning my body is sore...feels like I was bruised all over! | I never started at 20mg or 40mg! My doctor started me with 80mg of Zocor and 10mg of Zetia with 1 pill at night! I just turned 42 and although I had the medications for nearly 4 years I was taking it every once in a while. However, the past six months I have taken it every night---all 80 mg. Now I can only sleep on the sofa and I can't stay up late at all! I recently discontinued my Zocor. I am now almost a week and I am still sore. I am hoping to find end to my pain soon! | F | 42 | 4 years | 12/3/2009 | 4 | High Cholesterol | Some occasional lower/upper back pain and need to urinate a little more frequently. | I have been on this 10mg generic simivastatin for about 6 months now and I have to say it has done it's job. I went from a total level of 248 to a total 189 in 3 months. The doctor has increased dosage to 20mg due to the to good and bad levels were still a bit out of wack. Since the increase I have had no real ill side effects. Considering that any medication will have some negative effects I believe this is great. FOR THE PEOPLE SAYING THIS DRUG CAUSES ANXIETY AND ALL OTHER PROBLEMS. PLEASE UNDERSTAND I MYSELF HAVE HAD ANXIETY ISSUES AND THEY ARE NOT CAUSED BY THIS DRUG. PLEASE UNDERSTAND THIS IS NOTHING TO DO WITH THAT. I SEE A LOT OF POSTINGS SAYING THAT THESE DRUG ARE CAUSING PSYCHOLOGICAL SIDE EFFECTS. THERE ARE OTHER ISSUES THAT ARE CAUSING THEM NOT A STATIN DRUG. | M | 34 | 6 months | 12/1/2009 | 1 | High Cholesterol | Rhabdomyolysis | Is there a CLASS ACTION SUIT on this poison? My mother was poisoned and can barely walk. We are getting her liver and kidney's tested. | F | 63 | 2 years | 11/24/2009 | 4 | high ldl | muscles pain, memory loss | M | 55 | 2 months | 11/21/2009 | 3 | elevated cholesterol | HEADACHES! Not sleeping well or soundly. | Wish there was a better way but I tried diet and exercise and it didn't help. | F | 53 | 7 days | 11/20/2009 | 3 | high cholesterol | Five hours after the first dose of generic zocor 40 mg I have intense abdominal pain, followed by diarrhea. The pharmacist suggested that perhaps I should have been started off on a lower dose. | F | 35 | 1 days | 11/19/2009 | 1 | My cholsterol was about 220. | After about two weeks on Zocor I began feeling overall weak and it was very apparent that exercise was not something that I could maintain as I had done prior to starting Zocor. I was recovering from back surgery, and exercise was a very important part of my rehabilitation. I had to give up exercise at the gym as I no longer had enough strength to ride a stationery exercise bike. The large muscles of my arms and legs were affected. After three weeks on Zocor, I notified my doctor that I was stopping it. It has been about two weeks since I stopped taking Zocor and I am a little stronger but am still greatly affected by the Zocor with weakness and shaking in the large muscles. I will NEVER take this medicine again. Unlike most of you, my doctor started me off at 80 mg of simvastatin (generic Zocor) even though I told him that sometimes I'm very sensitive to medications. The simvasatin brought my cholesterol down to 159 within two weeks. This has been a good lesson for me to be more aggre | F | 64 | 22 days | 11/14/2009 | 1 | high cholesterol | Zocor lowered my LDL but after 4-6 months I was experiencing lower back pain, pain in my feet and general weakness. This was so gradual and after I had been on Zocor for a few months that I didn't attribute it to the drug. I would describe the pain as extreme stiffness to the point of pain, not so bad when I was up and moving, exercising etc., but after sitting, driving or sleeping, it was difficult to walk for several minutes. I felt old, tired and unmotivated. | Dr. though arthritis, however, xrays revealed little of that. After stopping Zocor for 3 months, I am about 80% improved. Began taking 50 mg. of Co Q10 which seemed to speed up the improvement. -I have heard of benefits in pain reduction while on statins when adding Co Q10. | F | 52 | 10 months | 11/13/2009 |