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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR CRESTOR | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 3 | I have hardening of two arteries | Im having pain in shoulder blade and under left breast. And just started down my left leg starting from butt cheek going to foot. | My friends have had bad side effects too. | F | 52 | 40 days 20mg | 3/17/2018 | 3 | 10 mg. | Increased/prolonged anxiety & depression | About 1.5 years ago, I started taking 10 mg./day. Had a period of extreme anxiety & breathing problems. Went off for 6 mos. & things improved a lot. But my cholesterol counts were great! Started again & have been on it 6 mos. Same depression, but no breathing issues. I'm going for a count tomorrow & if it looks good, I'll probably go off again for 6 mos. Seems like I can tolerate it for 6 mos. at a time. I have no muscle or joint pain. | F | 52 | 6 months | 10/25/2007 | 3 | high cholesterol level | uncharacteristic fatigue, muscle weakness and aches and pains; short term memory problems; and changes in sleep patterns. | Was on Lipitor 80 mg daily with marginal success. Doctor switched me to Crestor 10 mg daily and cholesterol levels dropped significantly (100 points) from 280+ levels. All blood work "normal" but I don't feel like myself anymore. | M | 52 | 5 years | 2/3/2009 | 3 | high Cholesetrol | I have taken for 3 days, I can not sleep. I skip one day, not taking Crestor, I slep like a baby. I will try a couple more days to see if my sleepless is because of Crestor. | F | 52 | 3 days | 6/1/2009 | 2 | chlorestral | Both knee joints were popping- sounded like I was fracturing my knees and leg bones down to the knees. Now just stiff all over. Shoulder, neck pain, arms go numb at night resulting in constant waking up. Here's a new one for you- sometimes the tip of my nose feels tingly or fuzzy. Feel like I am 85. I cant even bend at the knees as I feel a lot of pressure behind them- like my legs will pop like a balloon overinflated. Will be going off this stuff and trying to get back into walking. | F | 52 | 4 months | 12/5/2009 | 2 | High cholesterol | 1. Gained approx 10 lbs within 3 weeks of beginning Crestor despite beginning moderate daily exercise program (15 min walk every day) and making conscious effort to reduce sugars in diet by cutting out soft drinks. 2. noticable increase in fatigue. | After 6 weeks Dr. switched me to Lipidil Supra which I began yesterday. | M | 52 | 6 weeks | 1/15/2009 | 2 | Lower LDLs mainly | Can't sleep without sleeping pills. Flushing redness in face and neck from time to time. Numbness in hands at night sometimes. Verylow sex drive. | I am trying to determine if it's crestor, lisinopril, or HCTZ that's causing this. Crestor has lowered my ldls to a good level but trigs have risen since I went off tricor. I was taking zocor and tricor last year with no real side effects but LDLs were always high. My life changed when I told my doc of shortness of breath. He put me on metoprolol for HBP and my body was going crazy with flushing in faceand neck and spiking BP. Did a body scan and found out I had 50% blockage in a couple of arteries. So doc wanted to get my ldls lower by switching to crestor. I am still having flushing issues throughout day , not sleeping without pills, and very low sex drive. Although I am not married labido is still important at age 52. Does anyone else have these flushing problemswith Crestor? | M | 52 | 120 days 20 1X day | 5/25/2010 | 2 | Lower cholesterol | Cramps in feet and legs. | After 1-2 yrs on Lipitor I developed foot & leg cramps; Dr. took me off for several months & cramps subsided; started me on Crestor & after a week the cramps were back. | F | 52 | 7 days | 7/11/2006 | 2 | High Cholestorol | Lowers bad and raises good cholesterol. Side effects: joint tenderness & pain; intermittent muscle pain, joint fatigue, and perhaps sudden unexplained weight gain, bloating and gas. | I found this site while searching for the cause of an ankle problem and saw all these symptoms others are having. I'd begun to wonder whether I needed a check-up for some degenerative joint problem. I had not considered it to be related to Crestor. I took Crestor for several years with no apparent side effects. I stopped when my prescription ran out, and I just didn't get a new prescription. I've been back on it for a few of weeks, and suddenly, at times, my joints are very sore and my legs are heavy. A few weeks ago, while nearly standing still, my left ankle kind of "collapsed." After heat and ibuprofen, it got better, but the extreme pain recurs after a small amount of modest walking. The recurring pain from seemingly no real cause sent me on the Google search that brought me here. After looking at everyone else's posts, I see other things that seem to have suddenly appeared recently--like fatigue, occasional numbness in my arm, and red eyes--that others have mentioned here. | F | 52 | 10 mg 1X day | 9/13/2011 | 1 | high cholesterol | leg muscle pain and weakness, fatigue | This drug should be taken off the market!!! My doctor had me on this statin drug for over a year. I now have permanent leg muscle damage which causes pain and weakness in my legs and have to take pain medication every day for the rest of my life! I regret ever taking this horrendous drug! | F | 52 | 16 months 5 mg 1X day | 8/9/2011 | 1 | Cholestoral too high | Very sore legs, unexplained constant pain. Sore chest left side, right elbow so painful at night can't sleep, constantly waking up. Hips are starting to get very sore, can't sit without pain. | I never would have taken this medication if I read these comments from everyone first. Some one told me that instead of this same medication they were on they stopped and started taking Flax seed ground up in food. Levels dropped and stayed down. I went out and bought some yesterday. I will be contacting my doctor about stopping this med. I started cutting tablet in 1/2, will stop after 3-4 days then stop all together. | M | 52 | 4 months 20 1X day | 5/30/2011 | 1 | elevated cholesterol | Brain fog non stop, left knee, finger and arm numbness, skin crawling, depression, anxiety, cramps in both legs, toes locking up, flu symptons, cough, dark urine, recently back pain around kidneys, memory loss. No motivation. | Take this poison off the market. I am stopping this med today. | F | 52 | 45 days | 10/14/2007 | 1 | High Cholesterol | Muscle pain in all large muscles, and shoulders | M | 52 | 90 days | 3/26/2007 | 1 | High Cholesterol | Muscle weakness, fatigue, irregular heartbeat, palpitations, headache | F | 52 | 3 months 10 mg | 11/8/2012 | 1 | High Cholestrol | Muscle and joint pain was gradual. Muscles ached and skin was tender to the touch. weakness in ankles. Could hardly walk down the stairs and going up the stairs is becoming a challenge. Two days ago start to have lower back pain akin to the early stages of a kidney infection or menstrual cramps. Fatigue. I wake up tired. | Doctor wanted to see me in a month (next week). Will discontinue and ask doctor to recommend a less harsh perscription. | F | 52 | 3 weeks 10mg 1X day | 5/18/2010 | 1 | HDL/LDL ratio bad | Brain Fog, disorientation. | Scarey experience. Would like to know exact cause of side effects | M | 52 | 45 days 5 MG 1X day | 7/8/2010 | 1 | HDL too low, LDL too high | I've only been on this 6 days but have already experienced dizziness, can't complete sentences, saying different words than what I'm thinking, jittery, leg spasms, muscle cramps...mostly I feel like I've been poisoned. No matter how bad my HDL/LDL might be NOTHING is worth this. This feels lethal to my system. I can only imagine what happened PRIOR to "perfecting" this drug. My doctor wanted to prescribe me something else and I said I'm done with these drugs. I'm treating myself naturally (diet and exercise) and I'm taking my business and my body to a naturopath. If you love your body and yourself, you'd do the same. Don't even start this crap. Unfortunately I found this website after I started taking it. | If you like to play wack-a-mole then try crestor ... just be prepared for other things to pop up that are just as crazy as high/low/irregular cholesterol. This drug is poison. I've not taken it in 48 hours and I still feel all the symptoms but I am committed to detoxing from this pharmeceutical nightmare. | F | 52 | 6 days 1X day | 8/11/2010 | 1 | High cholesterol | Extreme pain from spasms in the buttocks, especially the left side. Increased weight when I had been losing weight, a total of over 50 lbs, then a sudden turnaround begining about 2 months after getting on Crestor. Increased back pain, neck and shoulder pain. Restless sleep so much so I would wake up in additional pain. Moodiness, high anxiety levels. I feel tired all of the time as well; probably from lack of sleep. Stomach and chest pains, and no, it's not my heart. | I stopped taking Crestor about 5 days ago and I am slowly seeing these side effects disappear. Now maybe the scale will stop going up and begin going back down. | F | 52 | 4 months 10mg 1X day | 11/21/2010 | 1 | Cholesterol was high | This is one of the most vile medications I've ever taken. First lets talk about the fact that the medication made me nearly suicidally depressed. Which I must comment on the fact that because it takes awhile for that side effect to manifest, it wasn't apparent that it was a result of the medication. It took me awhile to figure out that it was the Crestor that was responsible for the depression. I could have easily off'ed myself before figuring it out. BE AWARE! BE VERY AWARE. Thank god the effects diminished very fast after stopping the medication. However, it took a full month to completely rid myself of side effects. But that was one month of feeling better every single day. Thank god! Other side effects that I encountered were a frozen shoulder. This I'm not sure was created by the Crestor, but it's very likely, however for sure the Crestor was making to so that it would not get better! This is also improving steadily upon ceasing the Crestor. I also had the muscl | There is no question that far from extending my life, this medication was going to shorten it significantly. I'm off the Statins permanently! I'd rather die naturally at whatever age my body is capable of taking me to, rather than give my life over to big pharma for their self-serving profit agenda. What utter nonsense our medical system has become. The doctors are almost useless. All they do is write prescriptions for meds that need to be taken every day at a cost of $3+(sky's the limit) per pill. When I was growing up, unless you were diabetic, you took medication to make you well and then you discontinued it. Now, every medication that comes out is something they want you to take everyday. What's wrong with this picture? | M | 52 | 8 months 5 1X day | 12/8/2010 | 1 | high cholesterol | severe muscle pain and muscle wasting | I took crestor for 3 and a half yrs. Just over 2 yrs now had total knee replacements but never seemed to improve. I was taken 3 steps forward and two steps back and the overall muscle aching was unbelievable, felt like flu symptoms. A few mths back found out my muscles were wasting and found it very hard to walk of just get out of bed. I saw a specialist a couple of mths ago and was told to stop it immediately and now the severe pain is gone but it will take lots of walking and exercise for a yr or two before my muscles repair themselves so I would never advise anyone to take 'crestor' because you may suffer these severe side effects also. | F | 52 | 3 years 10 mg 1X day | 3/3/2011 |