ZOCOR Reviews (SIMVASTATIN)Average Rating: 1.8 (893 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare ZOCOR with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR ZOCOR | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | Moderate-hi cholesterol # (210) | Horrific joint/muscle pain, debilitating lassitude, imbalance, sleep problems, burning sensations in legs, digestive difficulties; all symptoms confusing to both Drs involved in the prescription and follow-up processes. I am still in pain and moderately incapacitated after nearly 5 yrs off this medication, and it has aged me dramatically. See Spacedoc.net FORUM for my (and others') full list of complaints. | M | 68 | 5 years 40 Mg 1X day | 11/18/2010 | 1 | High Level Bad Chol/ | Crippling Achilles Tendonitis, Facitias in both feet. 4 doctors and not one of them linked the meds.to my condition. | Simvastatin robbed me of well over 2+ years of my life. If it wasn't for my own research I would still be crippled. Within one week of stopping this medication I can stand up without holding on, walk almost without a limp and I dont cry in the morning. It is amazing. I can't understand how this has gone undetected by my doctors. I want to sue them. I was living a hell that no one but those on these pages can understand. | F | 46 | 3 years 40 1X day | 11/7/2010 | 1 | High Cholesterol | joint pain in right hip, tiredness, constipation, weight gain (8 lbs in 1 month), trouble getting back to sleep if I wake up during the night, feeling achy all over, mild headaches constantly, hot sweats in the night, lack of motivation, irritable. | I'm 39 years old and had a kidney transplant (thanks to my beautiful wife) 7 months ago. I was finally feeling awesome and over the side effects of all of the other drugs I am on. Last month my nephrologist prescribed simvastatin for high cholesterol (one of the side effects of anti-rejection drugs) and I started feeling like I was 10 years older. No energy, hip pain, etc. I read this board and saw a lot of the same stuff I was going through so I called my post transplant coordinator (a Nurse) and told her it was time to refill the prescription but I wasn't going to. She said it's fine to stop taking the Zocor and we can find something else. She told me to take fish oil instead for now to see how that works out. | M | 39 | 30 days 20 MG 1X day | 11/5/2010 | 1 | yes | Zocor caused my liver enzymes to rise to dangerous levels and my gall bladder to mis- function. | F | 58 | 1 years 10mg 1X day | 11/4/2010 | 1 | family history, CAD, 228 cholestero | very frequent urination, urinary retention, insomnia, anxiety, depression | I've only been off this medication for two days. I feel somewhat better but certainly not 100% back to normal. On my 15 minute walk to work this morning I had to find a bathroom twice! I'm wondering if and when I will ever return to normal urinary function. I will never take another statin drug again. | M | 58 | 5 weeks 20mg 1X day | 10/28/2010 | 1 | hypercholesterolemia | Side Effects: myalgia, neuralgia, insomnia, dementia, polyneuropathy, rhabdomyolisis, subdural hematoma, coma, and pain, pain pain. It has taken me 18 years to recover from what was started in 1992 by my doctor, may he and his tribe burn in Hell. Add these side effects: incontinence, severe joint pain, swollen fingers and throbbing hands, rheumatism, arthritis, difficulty swallowing, numbness, feet that feel as if they are on fire, hair loss, tinnitus and incontinence. | Comments: Before they go to Hell, the people at Merck and the doctors who shill for them should be sent to a very nasty prison. Merck and its doctor salesmen should be stripped of every asset including their medical licenses. They should be disgraced and totally destroyed. The proceeds of their financial liquidation should be distributed to their victims. These crooks sit on an astronomical fortune. According to Dr. Malcolm Kendrick (I recommend him highly), Merck bought lovastatin from the US Army, so the similarity of the side effects of all Statin drugs to various drugs used to torture victims is not coincidental. Why can I not rate Zocor lower than one? Zocor deserves a much lower rate than zero. I am extremely dissatisfied with Zocor and the idiots who prescribe it and then lie to cover up their crimes. I have made their destruction my life's work and I thank them for giving me something to do. | M | 63 | 6 years 20 MG 1X day | 10/26/2010 Patient History | 1 | high cholesterol | Muscle pain fatigue confusion irrational behaviour | disgusting poison pushed by ignorrant or criminal doctors. This has destroyed my health my family and my work. I took it for three years in which time i went back to doctors complaining of muscle weakness and bad pain but doctor did not associate it with this poison. I have been off of it now for two years. There has been some improvement in my legs and arms but then other areas have now popped up in pain!!! i hav etried and still take cq10 caritine and other vitamins but nothing really seems to definatly help. I am even concidering stem cell treatment!! Doctors now what is going on as do the pharmacutical companies but money comes before us but i do pity the next doc that dares to shake his head or roll his/her eyes when i mention statins. please any one who would like to make contact please feel free as i am sick of feeling alone with this. | M | 47 | 3 years 10 1X day | 10/25/2010 | 1 | High Cholestrol | Started about 6 months ago - joint pain in left ankle and then pain started in right ankle when walking. Then I started to have pain in the bottoms of my feet like a bruised feeling especially when I have been sitting for a while and get up to walk. Irregular heatbeat, chronic hair thinning, loss of libido. I did not connect these symptoms to Simvasatin at first. Before starting this drug I was very energetic and active felt good. Now I am tired all the time. I described my symptoms to my doctor and he did not think they were related to Simvastatin and prescribed a different type of statin. I have not started the new drug and have stopped Simvastatin "cold turkey" 2 weeks ago. Symptoms are still present but not quite as bad. I feel like I have aged 10 years. | I hope these symptoms go away as I cannot perform any type of aerobic activity due to the joint pain. Horrible drug. If I had known 6 months ago what would happen to my body I would have stopped then. | F | 56 | 9 months 40mg 1X day | 10/22/2010 | 2 | High Cholesterol | Exhaustion, weight gain and memory loss | I am going to stop taking it and try to control my cholesterol through diet and exercise. I DO NOT like the way I feel at all. | M | 50 | 6 months 40 MG 1X day | 10/14/2010 | 4 | Cholesterol | F | 60 | 5 years 10 1X day | 10/9/2010 | 1 | High Cholesterol | After three months I ended up with bruised ulnar nerve - I attribute this to a constant underlying muscle tightness keeping all of my faschia ridged. I noticed muscle pain about month 3 or 4 after going back to work after the summer off and put two and two together. I stopped simvastatin one day and started back on Lipitor the next and my arms completely freaked out with lots of muscle soreness at the end of the work day. I called my doc and he's taken me off of all lipids for 3 mos and we will revisit statin issue then. Almost back to normal after 3 weeks of no statins. Hopefully perfect soon... | Like many others on this board, my insurance no longer covered Lipitor and so I was forced to switch. Bad, bad mistake as this one's side effects crept up on me very, very slowly so much that I didn't draw side effect connections with simvastatin until the bruised nerve and arm pain set in. Be careful with all statins. You never know which one your body can/can't tolerate | M | 40 | 4 months 20 MG 1X day | 10/3/2010 | 2 | slighty elevated cholestorol | Loss of energy, hurts to move, pain in left shoulder, down arm, very, very sore!! Hand going to sleep and tingling, pain in right front chest area, poor sleep | F | 59 | 1 years 30 1X day | 9/28/2010 | 2 | to lower cholesterol | M | 71 | 10mg 1X day | 9/27/2010 Patient History | 1 | Moderate Cholesterol from PCOS | Severe heart palpitations, mental fuzziness and bad concentration, leg cramps, muscle pain and stiffness in neck, shoulders, and jaw, chronic headache, low level nausea and loss of appetite, occasional fevers, severe exhaustion, shaking hands, poor sleep, blurry vision, tightness in chest, dehydration | I've only been on this medication for two weeks and the side effects started slowly but got worse fast. I realized the muscle pains and headache were becoming an issue after about a week and the heart palpitations became frightening (almost went to the ER) about 4 days ago. I've been feeling so bad I thought I must be coming down with an illness, but I couldn't figure out what was wrong. Last night I accidentally missed my evening meds, including the Simvastatin, and this morning my head is clear and although my muscles are sore from being so tense, the stiffness is much better. I slept well and am not as tired. The heart palpitations are still happening but are less severe. My stomach feels better and I am more interested in food. After reading testimonials, it all makes sense. I am going to discontinue the meds and call my dr on Monday. | F | 32 | 2 weeks 20mg 1X day | 9/19/2010 | 1 | High cholesterol in 1998 and 2004 | Neuropathy, myopathy and sciatic nerve pain | I took Symvastatin until I found this website. I developed neuropathy after about three months. The myopathy came on gradually and my doctor told me that the Simvastatin depleted the protective sheating around the sciatic nerve. I am now on a regimen of 6 Vicadins a day and in constant pain. There seems to be no cure. Do not take the medicine if you can control your cholesterol by any other means. I never associated my problems with the medicine. | M | 74 | 17 months 40mg 1X day | 9/13/2010 | 3 | high cholesterol | Calf pain | Does anyone have sore calfs in the morning? | M | 60 | 365 days 20 1X day | 9/9/2010 | 1 | cholesterol, triglycerides | Dizzy, blurred vision, vomiting,tired, weak, could not sleep, forgetfulness, brain fog, after doubling the dose my throat was tight, one day it almost closed up and I almost died right after taking the new dose, had to force myself to breath. VERY high blood sugar after starting it after controlling my diabetes for years without meds. Gained 40lbs in 9 months! | I stopped cold turkey in June of this year and just started very moderate exercise and a low carb lifestyle and lost the 40lbs within 2 months of stopping the meds! Just got my blood work back and on my own lowered my triglycerides to 120, my cholesterol down 20 points (still 205 but working on it) and my A1C is 5.6. No diabetes meds, just diet. Two months after stopping my eyesight still isn't the same, I think its permanently effected. PLEASE trust what your body tells you, not what the dr tells you! I don't wish this drug on anyone. I go in for my physical soon and my doctor can suck it,she said it was all in my head and it doesn't have side effects. | F | 45 | 9 months 20-40mg 1X day | 9/1/2010 | 2 | high cholesterol | Leg cramps at night made sleep impossible. (thought it was restless leg syndrome or something) Moodiness, and trouble retrieving words and names. Then last week, a sore throat developed and my neck actually hurt to the touch on the outside. It became harder each day to swallow, and it scared me. (Thought I had a cancer or something.) | I didn't take the zocor last night, and already the sore throat/lump in throat is resolving, thank goodness! | F | 57 | 3 months 10 mg 1X day | 8/31/2010 | 1 | high cholesterol | Had previouslytaken 20mg. side effects ,bad leg pain,back pain,whole body feels older,stopped taking it myself and went back to the Dr. she asked "Did you quit taking it "? Yes i did ,she gave Gembibrozil 600,started taking Neurontin for nerve pain in my legs ,I am very sensitive to drugs,started taking muscle relaxer for leg pain ,I HATE these drugs,they absolutely ruin my quality of life ,have troublegeting around I'm 50 but feel 70. | If you have high cholesterol consider diet and excercise,it is a lifesyle disease,my Dr. said its not realistic to think I'm just gonna eat right ,but I'm thinking it would behove me to make the life change as opposed to this medicine. | F | 50 | 1 years 10 1X day | 8/21/2010 | 1 | memory loss, tiredness, muscle and joint pain all over | F | 62 | 6 months 80 mg 1X day | 8/18/2010 |