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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR ZOCOR | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | high cholestrol | extreme pain all over my body, hurt to be touched, no appetite, no energy, hurt to walk, pain in knees, constipation, to touch the fiber of body at any place except the tip of my nose and ears was painful! | Was shorted on the number of pills in my last refill, so I skipped taking for a few days and then stopped until I could get my prescription refilled---have to drive 75 miles to get meds. Amazingly, in three days time, my friends could hug me and I felt no pain. I could rub my shoulder and I felt no pain. Still can't believe this. No constipation after three days. Legs don't jump during my sleeping hours, I even feel like cooking and preparing meals again. Have more energy and I want to do things...marvelous! | F | 84 | 6 years 40 mg 1X day | 7/30/2011 | 3 | High cholesterol | In the past 5 years I have had a rotator tear right shoulder, frozen shoulder, same shoulder, tarsal tunnel surgery on my ankle for sever pain, and now frozen shoulder in my other shoulder. I am very lethargic, and went from playing tennis many times a week to no tennis at all. | F | 51 | 5 years 40 mg 1X day | 7/18/2011 | 5 | High cholesterol | No side effects. | I was on Lipitor, but it was quite expensive. At my request, my MD switched me to Zocor (generic is Simvastatin). It is inexpensive and does the job well with no problems. | M | 66 | 5 years 50mg 1X day | 7/9/2011 | 1 | high cholesterol | Knee pain and stiffness,lower back pain, insomnia about 8 wks.Knees felt like they were dislocating and had to wear a brace on left. Severe depression and tired,fluid on the knees just didn't feel good in about wk 9. Caused me to be a different person. | I never thought about my knees or depression being related to this drug. After stopping for 2 days the depression lifted and in 5 days my knees were better. I am still not right and have popping in my knees and legs I am guessing due to muscle damage. I didn't tell the Dr yet because I wanted to make sure it was Zocor..I have never had depression & don't ever want to feel that way again. There was a dramatic drop in my Cholesterol levels by wk 9. but what good is that when you are too unstable to leave the house.? This drug should be taken off the market.. | F | 56 | 11 weeks 20mg 1X day | 6/28/2011 | 1 | for borderline high cholesterol | pain in hips, abdomen, nerve pain (felt like when you get excited in center of chest), pain in upper right abdomen, back/kidney pain, joint and muscle pain, knee pain to the point that it is painful to walk up and down stairs, pain in pelvis and lower abdomen, constipation, tiredness | F | 46 | 6 months 10 mg 1X day | 6/27/2011 | 3 | High Cholesterol | I have had severe back and hip pain for some time. Six months ago I had the muscles in my lower back tie up so badly that I went through two months of three times a week physical therapy. Unfortunately, it did not help. Then while listening to National Public Radio I heard the comments about the dosage of 80 mg Zocor and how it appeared to cause severe lower back and hip pain. When I looked it up on the internet, it was like I was reading my description of how bad I felt. I have been off of it for about ten days and I think that it is getting better; but, then it was never the same from day to day. I hope the pain will go away. | I have been on 80 mg Zocor for about ten years. I never thought about the Zocor being the cause of my pain because I had had two spinal fusion operations in the early 2000's. When I read all of the side effects that some people say they have had; I realize that the reason I feel so bad is... it may not be my age. | M | 76 | 900 days 80 1X day | 6/20/2011 | 1 | High cholesterol | Swollen glands, sciatica-like symtoms: excruciating pain on the left side of my body, feet, thigh, buttock and b. ack, headache, depression, fatigue, feelings of being very old--which I generally do not have, blurred vision in one eye, stomach upset severe itching after I stoped taking the medcine. How do I make it stop with out taking something else dangerous? | F | 55 | 65 days 40 1X day | 6/5/2011 | 1 | High Cholesterol | Involuntary muscle twitching in both upper and lower extremities, (mostly lower) tingling in hands and feet, cramping in legs and feet, muscle aches and random unexplained soreness in left elbow and other joints. Difficulty walking up or down stairs. Severe aggravation of a pre-existing arthritic right knee. | I began taking Simvastatin the middle of July 2010. Since then, I have experienced numerous aches & pains, cramps and severe pain in my right knee. I never would have suspected Simvastatin to be the cause of these symptoms! I have the beginning stages of arthritis in my right knee and I went to see my Orthopedic surgeon sometime in August or September of 2010 because my knee was hurting more than ever. The pain got so bad, it made going down stairs very painful. Plus, this must explain why I have been experiencing foot cramps and muscle twitching in my lower extremities for no reason. I am an active person who exercises regularly. In the past few months I have been limited in my exercise activities due to the amount of pain. I even started to walk with a severe limp! My last 40mg tablet was taken on May 31st, 2011 and I am already feeling better and less achy. I'm sorry, but the long-term side effects of this drug are simply not worth it! I am grateful to have found this site where a multitude of people have similar symptoms. Why would we ever suspect that our cholesterol medication could cause these serious issues? Listen to the commercials for these drugs that are being pushed. It's all about the money folks. They spend 80% of the entire commercial announcing the possible side-effects. Sorry, but I'm not going to pay money for extra pain and health complications any longer. I would much rather try to manage my cholesterol on my own than to go through this again. | M | 38 | 10 months 40mg 1X day | 6/2/2011 | 3 | High cholesterol | Muscle pain, particularly my legs and chest (sternum). | Zocor has lowered my cholesterol significantly. However, I am taking a supplement called Ubiquinol to counteract the side effects. Ubiquinol is the active ingredient in CoQ10...statins deplete CoQ10 from the body so it needs replaced. In Europe, they almost always prescribe a statin along with Ubiquinol. After seven days on Ubiquinol, most of the pain was gone. I occasionally have some minor pain but not like before. Ubiquinol can be purchased at health food stores but is kind of pricey. | F | 43 | 4 months 20 mg 1X day | 6/1/2011 | 1 | Dr. prescribed it for high cholestr | Swollen glands, sciatica-like symtomns: excruciating pain on the left side of my body, feet, thigh, buttock and b. ack, headache, depression, fatigue, feelings of being very old--which I generally do not have, blurred vision in one eye, stomach upset. | Symptoms began to occur approimately 3 days after I began using the drug. My doctor had warned me that this drug might cause side effects, such as headache and muscle aches, but this was common. What he didn't tell me that I would begin to lose energy, ability to walk long distances, climb stairs, and would become depressed because I could not keep up my exercise routine, and lost motivation to do so, due to fatigue and muscle aches. He didn't mention blurred vision and depression, either. Two weeks ago, I was in so much pain, throughout the day, that I had to cut back on my work scheduled, substantially, and stay home. At first, I thought that the muscle pains were a result of lifting my grandson on a trip we took 3 weeks ago, until I read about another person on the web page that thought, erroneously, that she had lifted something too heavy, which caused her problem. After matching my symptoms with so many people on this web page, I now suspect that the Simvastatin is the culprit. I am normally a very strong, healthy person, lifting or not lifting. Incidentally, I can no longer go to the gym and work out, which I have done for years, due to fatigue and unbearable pain on the right side of my body. My doctor gave me two shots, one with something like Ibuproghen, and the other a steroid. The pain medication he had subscribed was not working at all, so I asked for shots. They did absolutely no good, if anything, they made the problem escalate. I would advise people | F | 60 | 1X day | 5/27/2011 | 1 | Cholestoral 200 LDL 32 | Blurry vision, headaches, muscle weakness, constant congestion in nose and chest, trouble walking up stairs, pain in lower back, joints, and in muscles | I will never take this drug or any statin for that matter again. They are poison and should be taken off of the market now. I stopped taking the drug 2 days ago and the symptoms have improved greatly and are almost gone. | M | 44 | 3 months 20 1X day | 5/23/2011 | 1 | Moderately high cholesterol | 1. Breathing Problems 2. Moving About 3. Ear Congestion, Aches infections 4. Joint Pain, No Swelling 5. Loss of Voice 6. Nasal Congestion 7. Chronic Sneezing 8. Unusual Tiredness and Weakness 9. Decreased Vision 10. Constipation 11. Heartburn 12. Morning Nausea 13. Diverticulitis 14. Itching Skin, All Over 15. Rash, Persistent on Left Thigh, Encrusted& Scaly 18. Statin induced Myopathy 19. Statin iduced Peripherial Neuropathy 20.Muscle wasting, lost right hand muscles 21.Cramps | The Drug or the doctors should be removed from the market!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Never mix it with Lopid (Gemfibrozil). | M | 75 | 11 years 80mg / day 1X day | 5/17/2011 | 1 | Lower Cholesterol | loss of strength in hands, headache's, blurred vision, some fatigue and more hair loss. | My cholesterol was at 190 when they put me on this medication. I have used reading glasses for several years, but in the past 3 years my vision has really suffered. I now have to keep my glasses on to see anything. I'm getting off of this medication before it can do me any more damage. I have lost alot of my hand strength. I'll wait and see if any of this will reverse its self. | M | 61 | 3 years 80 MG 1X day | 5/16/2011 | 2 | lower my cholesterol | I've discovered that this medication caused me to have anxiety and negative mood issues. | I thought all along that the anxiety I was experiencing was due to life stresses - my brother's death from cancer, the economy (and my income) tanking, and much more. - but since quitting the simvastatin it's just GONE. Completely! I feel like I'm back on my feet again emotionally. While on the simvastatin, I would feel a wave of darkness wash over me every morning as I opened my eyes and came awake, and spent almost every day mildly agitated at all times, and quite agitated sometimes. I've spent a lot of money on counseling, have permanently lost a friend, and strained a lot of other relationships due to the way this drug affected my moods. WATCH OUT for this side effect, as it's not listed as a prevalent one. | F | 58 | 4 years 20 mg 1X day | 5/14/2011 | 2 | High Cholesterol | Muscle aches in legs; swollen ankles; hair loss; rash; dizziness | Stopped taking Zocor less than a week. Waiting to see if this was the cause of the symptoms. I am sure it was the Zocor. | F | 57 | 6 weeks 10 MG 1X day | 5/10/2011 | 2 | High cholesterol | This is my 3rd, 4th, whatever time trying simvastatin. I have also tried lovastatin and atorvastatin. In all cases the symptoms are: after a week neck stiffens up like glass, is painful and causes headaches (every time I try this it takes less time), slight constipation, have noticed hair loss from top of head, loss of labido, loss of power in weight lifts, loss of endurance, dry eyes, sleep problems, tightness in back with general discomfort, loss of lust for life, my memory gets dull, little foggy headed, skin seems to age. All this because my cholesterol is 244 w/HDL 65. | It's insane I do this. I blindly follow what the med community says to do just because of a number (THC 244). My lineage lives to 80 without this stuff. Is that such a bad age? These statins really much up my life. I mean what life? Once I'm on them. I don't want women any more. I don't want to work ouot. I don't want to get out and do things. My hair is falling out. My skin is morphing before my eyes. Before I tried this stuff people regularly said I looked like forty. Now they don't blink an eye when I say I'm 52. Cholesterol is a major component in your body. It's more than just about arterial blockage. And the Dr's don't even have it right. Cholesterol is more than just THC, LDL & HDL. There are subfractions of these but they don't bother measuring at that level. Most of us probably don't need to be concerned with it. Plus recent eveidence shows its inflamation thats the big culptrit. Managing inflamation is the key. Even Alhzimers shows a connection to inflamation. I'll try this once more but really don't expect it to be differnt to previous attempts. Next I'll get real aerious about free radicals and inflamation. I'll get my % body fat to 8%. Concentrate on low glycemic/low insuline response foods. Balance my omega 3's & 6's. Make sure all trans fats / hydrogenated fats are out of the diet. Never heat any oils or fats. Do resistance & endurance exercises. Work on balance & flexibility. And do brain exercises. - And if I drop of a heart attack or stroke | M | 52 | 100 days 10 1X day | 5/5/2011 | 1 | high cholestrol | The first few days on zocor I felt like I was too weak and tired to exercise.Every day I had a pain somewhere on my body.I started getting the feeling of my lower thigh muscles wasting away.Approximately 2 weeks after I started taking zocor I woke up with the worst body aches I have ever felt in my life. The next day I woke up still sore but also my chest hurt so bad like the worst chest cold immaginable. When I would try to cough it was dry and nothing would come up and my whole chest area would ache so bad that I would double over. Also I became very nauseated and threw up twice.I started having a fever and it went on for 5 days 99.4- 101.2. The third day I was having trouble breathing and went to urgent care. My blood pressure went up to 158/90 (usually is avg.115/74). They took chest xray and sent me home with rx for inhaler. I quit taking the zocor that day on my own even though the dr. knew all about the zocor and the symptoms she never connected the possibility of adverse react | It has been 6 weeks since I started the zocor and 4 since I stopped.I am 49 years old.I am in great health except now I have a pulmonoligist for a doctor and I have to take an inhaler called Qvar 2x a day and on bad days take albuterol inhaler too. Please exercise, eat right and do not take Zocor! | F | 49 | 2 weeks 10mg 1X day | 4/19/2011 | 1 | High colestrol | after 3 weeks of taking simvastatin generic for Zocor, I could hardly walk to my car, my legs and muscles became so weak, and the joint pain was unbearable, I had no idea it was the medicine, I never bothered to read the side effects. So finally I went online I found out that many people were having the same side effects. | Also found out the many people on Simvastain also develop Rhabdomyolyis which causes kidney failure and even death.this is a wake up call for me, something that might help your health, can also destoy you. People please listen to your body and always READ the side of effects!! | F | 37 | 30 days 20mg 1X day | 4/19/2011 | 1 | High Cholesterol | Dizziness,Brief loss of memory while in the middle of a conversation,feeling of passing out,nausea | Felt fine before taking this medication. Started feeing these symptoms and went to ER. They did all the blood tests and chest xrays and ekg and said I was healthy as could be. The Dr. chalked it up as stress! I did some research and saw that a few people were expeirencing the same things. I have been off this for about 2 weeks now and feel alot better. I still have some dizzieness and feeling of faint but not as frequent. Hopefully this will completely dissapear over time. I WILL NEVER TAKE THIS STUFF AGAIN! I am trying natural remedies. | M | 32 | 3 weeks 20MG 1X day | 4/18/2011 | 1 | 65 | 1X day | 4/15/2011 |