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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR ZOCOR | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | High Cholesterol - 318 | At first, intermittent itching of hands and feet which progressed to daily then several times a day. Itching got worse and worse and then feet began burning. Finally broke out in huge hives down only one side of my body. Stopped taking the Zocor several days ago and still experiencing some itching, but not as intense. Probably will take a couple days for my body to completely clear the med. | This is the first adverse reaction I've ever had to a medication. | F | 52 | 40 days | 10/16/2006 | 1 | high chloresterol | Numbness of the right side of head. Numbness in right arm, Pain in legs. Memory loss. HIGH blood pressure dizzy. Had ER visits CT scans blood work all OK, I am a healthy 37 Year old Active Duty Military in great health, Had 210 chloresterol started taking ZOCOR within months everything went down hill fast. The only thing I take or have taken in the past is ZOCOR any connection? you tell me. | Class action Law suite? I am converting to Flax seed oil. NOT working for me. | M | 37 | | 10/13/2006 | 1 | cholesterol reduction | horrible muscle pain and muscle-memory loss | F | 57 | 6 weeks | 10/7/2006 | 2 | High LDL | Hot fashes, irritability and trouble sleeping -- and I'm on the lowest dose. I'm going to go to a nutritionist because I have to get some sleep. | F | 43 | 2 months | 9/29/2006 | 2 | High chol prescribed | loss of sex drive severely decreased semen, muscle aches and pains, memory problems affecting work...my ALT blood test results jumped significantly | "no, sir don't like it!" I'm going to drop it regardless of what my docotor says and even if my chol has dropped | M | 47 | 6 months | 9/29/2006 | 2 | hypercholesteremia | i know this might sound premature, but i just started taking zocor four days ago and i am very nauseous and light headed. i cannot imagine it is due to anything but the zocor.....no one in the house is sick....i feel terrible. but, then, i also ran out of ambien last night, which i have become dependent on for sleep due to chronic pain, and i didn't sleep a wink...well, okay, maybe a wink or two: long enough to have weird dreams! uh, was THAT because of the zocor too? just kidding. | F | 54 | 4 days | 9/25/2006 | 1 | High cholestrol | Started with neck and shoulder pain about 5 yrs ago now every part of body aches. Eye disturbances similar to onset of migraine. Loss of libido,EXTREME TIREDNESS, Leg cramps. Memory.., most days cannot remember taking medication and other memory issues. dont have a social life anymore havent got the energy!! | Iam on 40mg and 10mg ezetimibe for 10 years after triple bypass, my TC is 274. but about 3 years ago i was taking 1000 mg of vit C and 400iu vit E to prevent colds and my tc came down to 195. i am now taking those 2 vits fish oils 1000mg a B complex and will be taking 100mg of COQ10. I havent come off the zocor yet I am trying to convince my doc that they are to blame, as i respect her and would prefer if she was in agreement, if it falls on deaf ears then i will take my chances and come off it, will post back when I have seen the doc. | F | 55 | 10 years | 9/24/2006 | 1 | High cholestrol | Started with neck and shoulder pain about 5 yrs ago now every part of body aches. Eye disturbances similar to onset of migraine. Loss of libido,EXTREME TIREDNESS, Leg cramps. Memory.., most days cannot remember taking medication and other memory issues. dont have a social life anymore havent got the energy!! | Iam on 40mg and 10mg ezetimibe for 10 years after triple bypass, my TC is 274. but about 3 years ago i was taking 1000 mg of vit C and 400iu vit E to prevent colds and my tc came down to 195. i am now taking those 2 vits fish oils 1000mg a B complex and will be taking 100mg of COQ10. I havent come off the zocor yet I am trying to convince my doc that they are to blame, as i respect her and would prefer if she was in agreement, if it falls on deaf ears then i will take my chances and come off it, will post back when I have seen the doc. | F | 55 | 10 years | 9/24/2006 | 5 | high chloresterol | None | I have been taking simvastatin (Zocor) for 2 1/2 months and my chloresterol level has dropped from 280 to 176. I take 20 mg. per day | M | 67 | 2.5 months | 9/18/2006 | 3 | cholestorol about 240 | No noticeable troubles at first with small dose, but was shifted to 40 mg 9 months ago. Began to have very sore muscles below knee and down toward ankle, and muscles behind the knees so "tight" that they burned when I straightened my legs. Sore feet: thought I had plantar fasciatis and tendonitis caused by excessive walking as tourist. My fingers also began to hurt more than normal for my osteoarthritis. Almost all discomfort would go away when I took Arthrotec for arthritis, so I assumed that was the problem. But then I began to feel weak and tired on walks -- very unlike me. At last it dawned on me: the Zocor! Doctor told me to stop and see what happens, and within 48 hours I felt almost back to normal. | Even with a very careful diet, Zocor never got me lower than 200, even with the increased dosage. | F | 73 | 3 years | 9/15/2006 | 4 | high chloresterol | none | M | 67 | 2 months | 9/14/2006 | 1 | mildly elevated cholesterol | I was on lovastatin for two weeks and developed horrible joint aches and felt like I had the flu. My doctor had me take a two week vacation from it and try it again, same symptoms after being back on it for only two days. Three weeks later was swithed to Zocor (simvastatin) after a few days developed a low back ache that I thought was from doing sit-ups. Then a few days later the back of my legs ached with charleyhorses. Now I have developed a terrible muscle twitch all over my body, lower legs worse and at night it feels like my legs are crawling. I have now been off simvastatin for 7 days and still have the muscle fasciculations, the bodyaches feel a little better, but still present. I am so frustrated. Has anybody head of this? | F | 46 | 3.5 weeks | 9/12/2006 | 1 | High Cholesterol/Have PVD | Muscle cramps that increasingly worsened in thighs, below knee, calves, feet, and lower back. I have always exercised regularly and lately have cramp trouble in early AM, late evening, aches during the night, and yesterday, just getting up from a seat. | My cardiologist pooh-poohed my remarks a few weeks ago but it got so bad that I called today and his nurse told me to stop Zocor at once. Lucky me, the doctor won't be back for two weeks. I have been on almost every statin that resulted in a wide variety of side effects. I keep a list of each of the statins and their side effects. | F | 70 | 3 months | 9/5/2006 | 1 | high cholesterol | WOULD SOMEONE PLEASE ANSWER IF THEY KNOW LIPTOR WAS BETTER FOR THEM THAN ZOCOR THANKS | I just went through a major problem with Allegra so wasn't dwelling on the Zocor we just started, but I did stop it for awhile since last week just in case it was the zocor and not the allegra pushing my pressure up 100 points. I became sure that problem was the allegra after talking to docs and reading this site. BUT my husband is dizzy and has severe leg aches, already needs two knee relacements but says this is different and WORSE ! Now that I think of it, I've had bad muscle twinges in my arm and upper back and severe foot cramping. WE were on lipitor for years, didn't seem to do this. I can hardly believe I could be having a problem with another NEW MED IN THE SAME WEEK!!!!!!!!!!!!!! All this because BLue Cross tripled the price of my former meds which were Zyrtec for allergies (Not horrible Allegra) and Lipitor ( not horrible Zocor) I will, no matter the cost, return to these better meds. | F | 58 | 30 days | 9/2/2006 | 3 | Cholesterol 321 | Wow, now I know its not age. My dosage was increased about a year ago from 20 mg to 40 mg. I had been on 20 mg for 2 years with no noticeable side effects. In the last year after it being increased to 40 mg I have had so many problems with my feet, one has plantars fasciitis and the other is numb on the bottom. Both hurt when standing long periods. I have such heaviness in my legs, aches in hips overall sense of weakness. I usually walk 4 miles each day on weekend but in the last 6 months it feels like each time I walk it is the first time. Shin splints that never go away, heavy legs, achy hips. Lately I can't sleep at night for the achiness in my legs and hips. Restless legs. I am going back to doctor to at least try and lower the dose and see if I can get my walking back up to par. I feel like I am 90 and am only 47. People around me who do not exercise at all are not in the shape I am in. I suspected the Zocor when I went off it for about 3 weeks with a bad cold and was ta | Might work good for cholesterol but I feel like it is aging me way beyond my years. | F | 47 | 1 years | 8/23/2006 | 3 | high cholesterol | I've experienced a complete loss of libido, pain in left foot, knees extremely painful, exhaustion even after swimming daily for a month, tingling in legs and left arm, forgetfulness (my wife says I'm almost senile at times...I'm only 58) with trouble concentrating; socially withdrawing...most everything you've read on this site. I'm going off myself to see if any of this improves. | Very disturbed by what's happening to my body and mind...I feel like I'm falling apart. Going to stick to fish oil et al instead for time being. | M | 58 | 5 years | 8/22/2006 | 4 | Cholesterol at 250 | Some transient muscle pain. Constipation. | 10 mg dose lowered LDL from 160 to 130; raised HDL from 65 to 78 and triglycerides lowered from 130 to 58. My MD increased my dose to 20 mg 3 weeks ago. I am concerned about my liver because I like wine with dinner so we will see what the next blood test says about liver function. | F | 51 | 7 weeks | 8/21/2006 | 5 | High LDL | None...... LDL in check....but have noticed the (very distinct) steady return of my hair color from white/gray to a salt/pepper look..... Was unsure why and found on a website this same effect experienced by some zocor users...... (Phamacy Q/A website - www.peoplespharmacy.org/archives/pharmacy_qa/will_drug_make_gray_hair_turn_black.asp). According to the website report...color recovery is black in spite of previous hair color. | M | 72 | 5 years | 8/4/2006 | 1 | reduce cholesterol | I was prescribed 40 mg of ZOCOR daily following stent placement in my right coronary artery in May 2006. I did not note any side effects which I ascribed to the Zocor, although I did start to experience rather frequent low level headaches, and a nagging pain in my right shoulder, for which I took an NSAID, etodolac, from 2 to 5-7 times a week. After 2 months on the 40 mg I had a follow-up cholesterol panel taken, which indicated a significant reduction in lipids, a reduction in HDL from 40 to 25 (the wrong direction), and LDL reduced from 97 to 93. The Heart Clinic of Medford called me up last Friday (July 28,2006) and told me to double up on the ZOCOR, and go to 80 mg, and they would send me an Rx for the increased dosage for me to send to my mail-in pharmacy. I took the 80 mg on Sat, Sun, and Mon AM, and I felt so terrible and out of sorts I called the Heart Clinic back Monday, and said that I was exhausted, gassy, constipated, short of temper, and out-of-sorts, and asked if it cou | I was told by a staff nurse that it was unlikey it was the ZOCOR and that I should continue taking the increased dose for at least another week and could make an appointment with my primary care doctor to see if he could diagnose the cause of the problem if it persisted. On Tuesday I dropped back to 40 mg, and was feeling better later in the day, and on Wednesday I decided to try the 80 mg again. BIG MISTAKE !! I could not sleep that night with the increased right shoulder pain, as though I had dislocated it, and the gassiness, malaise and ill-temper. Oh yes, I received another call from the Heart Clinic Wednesday, after I had taken the 80 mg, and my original complaint had gone on to further review, and another nurse advised me to stop taking the ZOCOR entirely for a week to see if the side effects stopped. I will follow up here in a week to post the results of stopping the ZOCOR. I am absolutely amazed at the number of respondents here who describe my symptoms, right down to the S | M | 61 | 60 days | 8/3/2006 | 1 | high cholestral | I was having a few back problems which is not totally unusual for me. I started having twinges in my shoulder which got progressively worse. I could hardly lift my right shoulder to put on clothers. After many weeks of physical therapy the pain in my shoulder got worse and worse. The pain would begin in my ankle and progress up to my hip and then all up my arm. The pain would migrate sometimes to the left side. My whole right side was just burning at times. I stopped taking Zocor on my own and most of the pain has gone away after 2-4 weeks. | stopping the zocor made me feel better right away. It has taken 3 weeks for the pains to gradually go away. I still have a little pain in some of my joints. I can raise my right arm without hardly any pain and the physical therapy was not the cure. My doctor is going to try me on Zetia | F | 60 | 8 months | 7/23/2006 |