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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR ZOCOR | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 2 | TIA | I started having leg cramps in left leg,waking me up at night | I have been on drug for over 1 year. After developing the leg cramps and reading up on drug I asked my GP, he said it was bursitis. I am not convinced. I stopped taking the drug two days ago, and my leg cramping has improved about 50%. I slept last night for 6 straight hours for the first time in many months. | F | 59 | 1 years | 3/25/2009 | 3 | lower my risk of heart attack | After 1st Zocor dose, I woke up w/severe headache that didn't go away until late in the day; 2nd dose no side effects at all. I'm watching closely based on what I read in re: possible side effects. I'll post again if symptoms develop. | I already suffer from fibromyalgia and the associated pain, extreme fatigue & foggy head, so don't expect much there; also have bad irregular heartbeat and am taking high dose of fish oil and magnesium daily to lessen (and of course, less caffeine). | F | 46 | 2 days | 3/23/2009 | 1 | High cholesterol | Side effects I have experienced...Hmm, well, guilt for one, hugely stressed, extreme exhaustion but I'm not the important one at the minute! Mums side effects...Constipation, Unable to Walk, Lost 3 Stone, Unable to sleep AT ALL, Weakness, Feeling Sick, Extreme Exhaustion, Loss of Balance, Depression, Anxiety, Upset Stomach, Loss of Interest in everything, the list goes on and on. | My mother started Simvastatin 7 months ago, stopped going to work 6 months ago due to ill health. 3 weeks ago she tried to take her life and is now in a psychiatric hospital, all extremely distressing! I just hope to god that when I go to my doctor with all the information that he takes her off these awful drugs. Sadly she is still on them at the minute, I will be traveling 120miles on Saturday to visit her, armed with lots of information for her doctors. Wish me luck, I think I need some! Regards, Lindsay | F | 56 | 7 months | 3/19/2009 | 1 | High Cholesterol | Side and back pain, spasms under my ribcage, abdominal pain, gas and constipation, lack of energy. | This was my first try at statins - I will never, ever go back on a statin - will try plant sterols as I already monitor my diet and I do exercise. | M | 41 | 3 weeks | 3/19/2009 | 1 | Elevated Cholesterol | It happened gradually but the side effects from this drug cumulatively became intolerable. Starting with a general mental fog, severe vertigo which resulted in an emrgency room visit, blurred vision almost daily and muscle spasms over my entire body. | At this point, I consider this drug to be a poison or at least poison-like. I took it for almost a year without noticeable side effect but then strange things started to happen. Mentally, I began to be somewhat foggy in general with ever increasing episodes of not being able to recall the name of a person or place. This is unheard of for me because my memory prior to Zocor was outstanding. After the fog came dizziness and then severe vertigo with visual disturbances - wavy lines, somewhat scrambled images. Huge bags appeared under my eyes where there were none before. I became to a large extent listless, merely going through the motions of life, as opposed to my normal eager and excited approach to everything. Headaches and eye aches became the norm, along with intermittently blurred vision and extreme sensitivity to light. Of course I had the MRI and MRA, both totally normal. Nightsweats, profuse at times, along with small spasms over my entire body started taking place. I had sharp piercing pain on the right side of my eye socket and spasms on the side of my head. I itched all over and had ringing in my ears, my scalp tingled. I began to have a violent shaking below my left ribcage and woke up one night trembling uncontrollably over my entire body. I developed a very bad taste in my mouth. Less than one week ago, I stopped taking the drug and the fog is starting to lift, the spasms have largely subsided and I am just beginning to feel to some extent normal. | M | 58 | 11 months | 3/18/2009 | 1 | Marginal cholesterol | Day fatigue, night anxiety, chest pain, kidney pain, abdominal pain. Felt 20 years older. | After 2nd trip to emergency in a month (1st for chest pain, 2nd for night anxiety rapid heartbeat), I quit the simvastatin. Took CoQ 10 for a month to help relieve pains. 6 weeks later after quitting, all symptoms but abdominal pains (now slight) have ceased. My energy is back! Now taking 3g Omega3 for cholesterol reduction try. | M | 45 | 6 months | 3/14/2009 | 1 | high cholesterol | I have been taking zocor for about 8 years. All of a sudden I began experiencing severe pain in my knees and spasams in the calves of my legs. Could hardly walk. Also had pain in two of my fingers and received cortisone shots to relieve pain. Took myself off zocor about 1 month ago. Pain got better, but now it is back. I feel is has damaged my muscles. My doctor was not so concerned and just told me to stop taking it and that is all he said. I will see my primary doctor soon and have some blood work done. Pain is so severe in my legs. Keeps me up most of the night. I never thought after taking this drug for such a long time this would happen. I will never take it again. | Now I am wondering if all the hip pain and leg pains I have had through the years are because of Zocor. Also recently had an MRI of my right knee because it was swollen and painful. Was told I had arthritis. I would definitely take part in a class action suit against the drug company. This website was so helpful. After reading all the comments I feel so much better. I just hope the damage is not permanent. | F | 64 | 8 years | 3/13/2009 | 1 | Mini Stroke followed by PFO closure | Foot cramps, lethargy, palpatations, no appetite, impaired distance vision. | I was given no warnings about side effects and was told to take 40mg a day for the rest of my life even though my cholestrol was only slightly above normal, but I'd had a mini stroke which was attributed to a hole in my heart. I've had an op to close the hole and I'm not happy about being on the statins now - will stop them tomorrow. Will continue on an aspirin a day and watch my diet instead | F | 47 | 4 months | 3/8/2009 | 1 | High Cholesterol | Extremly leg pain could hardly walk for 2 days, started bleeding urine my liver count was 15427 my liver and kidneys were failing was hospitalized with iv for a week very scary | The worst experience of my life when you have 4 children at home waiting and you dont know if you will see them again now im wondering how long is my body going to feel weak and everything seems like it takes alot of effort | F | 35 | 3 weeks | 2/28/2009 | 3 | Moderate Chol Levels | Extreme Fatigue and Exhaustion. Heart Palpatations | I read many other people having heart palpatations. I always from time to time have them but on Zocor, it was more frequent and worse. Doctor also said it was not Zocor, but after stopping the drug, it has subsided. So has the extreme fatigue and muscle weakness. It did lower my numbers and my liver function after 3 weeks was great, but my cholesterol was not so bad that it's worth the side effects. I am very active and have a good diet so I'm stopping. | M | 44 | 4 months | 2/26/2009 | 1 | high cholesterol | Tingling in both hands and feet... 24/7 | F | 56 | 3 weeks | 2/26/2009 | 1 | High LDL & Triglycerides | Chronic heel pain, possible reduction in sex drive. | The effect of Zocor/simvastatin on my cholesterol levels has been amazing. 10mg of brand name Zocor daily, I was UNDER the recommended level for LDL-C. I did not achieve similar performance w/comparable dosage of generic simvastatin. However, after taking brand name Zocor for 6 months, I began to notice pain in my left heel during daily 2+ mile walks. Visited a podiatrist. Arch supports and steroid shots temporarily remedied the pain. I also noticed that, moving from brand name Zocor to generic, this pain subsided as well. Fast forward to mid 2008, and I was not getting good readings from equal dosage of generic simvastatin, my MD put me back on Zocor. Readings dropped below minimums once again. My heel pain returned, and became so painful I had to return to the podiatrist for more shots and a set of orthotics. It was at this point that I stopped all statin therapy for a few months, while trying to allow the orthotics to cure my heel issue. Also during this time, I noticed s | M | 51 | 3 years | 2/24/2009 | 1 | High cholesterol | Nausea,muscle aches,fatigue,headache- I felt like I had the flu- absolutely awful. | I felt so much better, like myself again after stopping the medication. Not sure what I'll do next- there is mounting evidence out there that statins do not reduce heart attack significantly in women and many say women should not even bother with them. Statins are serious medications and should not be taken without a lot of thought! | F | 51 | 4 weeks | 2/23/2009 | 1 | High Cholesterol | After taking Zocor for about 6 weeks I started experiencing severe lower back pain, right hip and knee pain, very fatigued, and severe flu like symptoms | Within 3-4 days of quitting Zocor all the side effects that I had experienced went away. This is a nasty med | F | 39 | 8 weeks | 2/19/2009 | 5 | High Cholesterol | None and I found this site the day I filled the scrip, so I have been acutely paying attention. | I am getting older so I figured it`s time to start looking after myself better. I had been watching my total Cholesterol results each time I would donate blood(3 or 4 times per year) and I knew I was high going in. Went to the Doc for the first time ever in my adult life and came back at 268 total cholesterol with 183LDL & 46HDL. When he called with the news that he was going to put me on a generic statin, I mentioned I get Zocor free from my Ins plan so he called in a 6 month scrip at 20mg per day to the pharmacy. I gave blood 2/4/2009 and the results came today 2/17/2009 it shows my total is down to 173. At the time of my most recent donation I had only been taking it for 6 weeks. Quick results and no ill side effects. | M | 51 | 2 months | 2/17/2009 | 1 | High Cholesterol | Hip joint and big toe joint started hurting first. Then about 3 days later, severe cramping in both feet, hands, shoulders and very fatigued. Muscle ache in most of my body. I am stopping the drug after 5 weeks. | F | 53 | 5 weeks | 2/15/2009 | 1 | high cholesterol | severe leg and foot cramps | started taking zocor 1 1/2 months ago -had mild leg cramps on and off-2 days ago woke up out of a sound sleep with the most excruciating pain I have ever had! cramps were from my rt.hip down my thigh and to my ankle then foot. I have never experienced anything so painful! it took about 20min.for the pain to slowly subside. that was 2 days ago and now I am having milder cramps in my rt.ankle and foot. I stopped taking this med right after the first occurence. I have taken Lipitor and Crestor in the past without any problems but I asked my doctor to change it to something with a generic to save some money-that was a very bad idea! | F | 54 | 45 days | 2/13/2009 | 1 | High Cholosterol | After 60 days on Simvastatin 20MG (generic Zocor), I suddenly experienced extremely tired legs, dizziness, no appetite - only wanted to lay down and take a nap. Could only work about 10% of the time. | Stopped taking the drug 5 days after the terrible side effects started - feeling a lot better. Legs are getting back to normal. I'm off statins for good. | M | 60 | 2 months | 2/10/2009 | 1 | High Cholesterol | Early one evening my entire thighs (both of them) felt like they were on fire and tingly and very painful. I went to bed early but couldn't find any comfortable position in which to sleep...the pain kept me up all night and I just read a book to try to get my mind off the pain. When I got up out of bed in the morning, I walked to the bathroom and passed out on the way. Ended up in the emergency room because my primary care physician was convinced a heart problem caused the passing out; I was convinced I passed out because of no sleep and a lot of pain. To make a long story short, after a full and half day in the emergency room and hospital and lots of heart tests, my heart was found to be normal and I was told to go off the Zocor. Two days later I was pain free...unbelieveable and wonderful. Looking back I think the thigh and butt pain started two weeks earlier but because I injured my back two months ago and still had some pain from that, I was attributing the earlier pains to m | I have family and friends who take Zocor and have not yet experienced any bad side-effects, so the drug may work for many but not all. But after I went through what I did with this drug I am not going to consider taking any other statin drugs. If I die early because of it, so be it. It just isn't worth the risk of ending up with such pain or possibly permanent muscular damage. I was lucky that my bad side-effects occurred reasonably early so I could attribute them to the drug; I recovered fully within 3 days of stopping the medication so I am very thankful for that. Am sorry to hear some of you have had permanent muscle damage as a result of this medication. | F | 66 | 24 days | 2/6/2009 | 1 | High cholesterol. | 58 years old. One dose simvastin , twelve hours later muscle cramps, tendonitis , chest and stomach ache. I felt so tired and achy I was sure I had the flu. I had not expected any side effects. My legs and arms were weak , I woke up that afternoon with a numb hand. | The drug was meant to rescue me from high cholesterol . I plan on losing weight and exercising. My blood pressure , kidney and liver functions are all good and normal. I have an Hba1c of 6.8 on an uncontrolled diet and 5.8 if I lose weight. I discontinued this drug , I run a woodworking shop , I need to have hands that are strong and I am om my feet for eight hours a day minimum. | M | 58 | 1 days | 2/4/2009 |