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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR CRESTOR | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | High Cholesterol | Costochondritis for months, sometimes severe. VERY swollen left hand; puffy feet and eyelids. Major, major insomnia. Blurred vision. (I got a stronger glasses prescription a couple of months after starting Crestor and now another few months later, cannot see... again.) Tired, burning eyes. Fatigue so bad I feel 98 instead of 58. Gained about 10 lbs. in a flash when beginning this drug. Have NOT been able to get these pounds off. Depression. Fuzzy memory. Hard to concentrate. Loss of strength and greatly reduced stamina. Arthritis has been much worse since I started it. | When I started Crestor I was having a run of upper respiratory viruses and felt bad anyway, so I think that masked the fact that Crestor was making me feel lousy. The viruses finally stopped but the feeling lousy didn't and I just didn't put two and two together for nearly a year. Then to add to my misery, I started on Lisinopril last November, which has some of the same side effects as Crestor, notably swelling in the hands. (Since on both drugs I am now at the point where I often cannot close my left hand enough to make a fist, it is so swollen.) I stopped them both — cold-turkey — two days ago. I hope my body will heal from these nasty symptoms and I can begin to feel like myself again. I will NEVER let my doctor talk me into another statin or hypertension drug. Good food, exercise, weight loss and most of all, prayers, are what I am going for now! | F | 58 | 1 years | 3/6/2009 | 1 | High cholesterol | Pain in arm muscles,difficulty standing in the morning due to sore feet, shooting pains in fingers, toes, arms, joints, lower back, and feeling like something crawling under my skin on my leg and ankle. | Crestor did lower my number by 100, but the quality of my life diminished while taking it. Now the doctor wants to put me on Lipitor 10,but I am afraid to try it. | F | 58 | 8 weeks | 7/22/2008 | 1 | hyperlipidemia | Tingling in my arms and legs, insomnia, muscle aches, joint pain, mental fogginess, aggression and general malaise. | This was not my first cholesterol medication (zocor, pravachol and zetia have been some that I've been placed on - all with side effects) but my doctor assured me that this one was different. Well, it was - the side effects came on FASTER! Tingling the first night, joint and muscle pains within a week and the mental fog and aggression after only two weeks. This is a nasty drug and the side effects can mimic those of aging. And on pravacol, my LDL actually went UP! I should mention that I have Hashimoto's Thyroiditis, colitis and asthma placing me in a high risk group for statin side effects, but even if you're not these drugs are pure poison! | F | 58 | 19 days | 4/24/2009 | 1 | high cholestorol | I have extreme pain in all of the following joints & muscles...fingers, wrists, hands, shoulders and knees. I have been having trouble with my short term memory and cannot sleep. I have been off of this horrible drug for almost 2 weeks now and still feel terrible! I have swelling in my thumbs and middle fingers of each hand. I can barely type this on the computer! I feel and have been feeling as if I have the flu. I was just recovering from a total knee replacement and this drug has been worse than the surgery! I am presently taking strong prescription pain killers that I had left over from my surgery. Without these pain killers, I cannot even walk, sleep, or move my hands. If anyone out there has experienced these symptoms...please e-mail me and tell me how long it takes to recover from the effects of this dangerous drug??!?? I have been to a doctor already. He tells me that it can take 2-3 weeks to get it out of my system--well...it has been almost 2 weeks and I seem to | I took Crstor, 20mgs, for approx. 30 days. Then I ran out and didn't re-fill the script for about 30 days because it was soooo expensive. I just started it again about 17 days ago..but stopped after I had taken it for just 4 days because I woke up on the 5th day with this horrible pain and swelling in my hand, fingers and shoulders. | F | 58 | | 8/4/2007 | 1 | hyperlipidemia | Within week and a half had severe muscle pain in left leg, followed in days by same pain in right leg, then arms, shoulders, etc. Doctor took me off Crestor after three weeks, at which point felt like 90 years old. Very scary experience. | I am one of the people my doctor calls statin intolerant, so unfortunately, until something else comes along, my hyperlipidemia is virtually untreatable. | F | 58 | 22 days | 9/9/2007 | 1 | Cholesterol 250/HDL 63/ LDL 162 | About 3 weeks on Crestor (10 mg), I started to have a lot of shoulder pain, tightness & tenderness mostly on one side. I went to my massage therapist and after a deep tissue massage I thought it was better. I normally get stress knots in my back and shoulders but this was different. The pain and tenderness did not go away. The next massage I had after 2 months on Crestor the massage therapist thought maybe I had fibromyalgia because her touch up and down my arm and around my shoulder was so tender. I went to the dr. last week and she thinks I have a strained rotator cuff and gave me muscle relaxers, antiflammatory meds and recommended physical therapy. I then reminded her of the Crestor, and she said, "oh, we better test your creatine kinase to see if it's elevated." Duh! Well I'm still waiting for the results. I decided to wean myself off the Crestor. I took it every other day and then skipped two days and took 1/2 dose the next. I had two good days (was it th | I am so glad to read all the comments here and that I'm not alone. If I don't get confirmation that my enzymes are elevated, I will be surprised. If anyone has gone off the meds, how long did it take for the pain to stop? | F | 58 | 5 months | 11/26/2009 | 1 | high cholesterol | Severe leg cramps, joint pain, left shoulder muscle pain. | Stopped after 3 days, cramps are gone however this was 6 mos ago and my left shoulder is still very painful and cannot place arm behind my back. Chiropractic visits now helping. DO NOT TAKE CRESTOR OR LIPITOR!! | F | 58 | 3 days | 1/11/2010 | 1 | high cholestrol & blood presure | pains in upper & lower back pain in legs & knees & feet right shoulder arms tingling sensation in arm's and hands at night not enough sleep depression and no energy | I've been taking 10 mg. crestor for 10 yrs these symtoms showed after taking crestor for a short time but my doctor told me it's from atrhrits I have lot's I'am 58 yrs old now and they keep sending me for test and blood work because he doesn't understand why nothing helps me I also have liver & kidney diesease after a long liver treatment my liver diesease is under control but I need to ask my self why my doctor would give me this stuff when he knows I have these problems tonight I stop taking crestor A use a more natural way to lower my cholestrol thanx for the info everyone you helped me out rockyj | M | 58 | 10 years | 1/12/2010 | 1 | Cholesterol | Took for 10 days, 11th day extreme lower body weakness(had to crawl to get around) 12th day weakness followed by left hip/buttock pain (10:10 on pain scale) | Doctor not have any suggestions to help get this out of my systme | M | 58 | 10 days | 7/26/2009 | 1 | high cholesterol | stomach pain, muscle pains, memory loss, speech problems, weight gain, itching, leg spasms, headaches | Started feeling blah about 5 months ago. Just attributed it to menopause. But 2 months ago my right shoulder started to hurt, I mean a burning pain right in the joint. I thought I just worked it too hard. The pain not only got worse, but it started to travel down into my wrist. My whole right arm is now extremely weak. That's when I started researching CRESTOR. I quit 4 days ago. I'm still waiting for my arm to recover. | F | 58 | 1 years | 7/10/2009 | 1 | high cholesterol | No energy. Ached all over. Felt like I was walking through mud. Depressed. | Thought it was just old age catching up on me. Ironically I was at my endocrinologist's diabetes seminar when I was nearly paralyzed, could barely walk. Had similar symptoms start w/ the Lipitor that I'd taken for years. Dr assured me Crestor would be better. Symptoms slammed me HARD and FAST. Symptoms stopped w/in 2 days of stopping Crestor. | F | 58 | 8 days 30mg 1X day | 3/17/2014 | 1 | High cholesterol | Severe lower back pain, shoulder pain, numb hands, some ringing in ears, tired, constipated , lack of sex drive! | This drug is so powerful at 5 mg with all the side effects I have experienced I can't imagine what I would feel like on a higher dose! I will call Dr., to let them know I will NOT be taking it anymore. I feel like I'm 90! I want a better quality of life ! | F | 58 | 4 months 5 mg | 10/19/2015 | 1 | high cholesterol | Joint and muscle pain and muscle spasms, heart palpitations. I have been in so much pain this past week I can hardly walk. Stopped taking Crestor last night. Hope it's not too late. | Zetia made my stomach hurt, but I can live with that better than I can live with this awful pain. Going to ask my doctor to try something else. Crestor makes me hurt the same way Lipitor did, only Lipitor didn't cause palpitations. | F | 58 | 3 weeks | 6/9/2006 | 1 | to lower bad cholestrol | Thought i had emphazema...severe pain under shoulder blades and between shoulders. Difficulty concentrating, weakness in arms and shoulders. I stopped it last night and already feel 90% better | It sucks. | M | 58 | 30 days | 1/27/2006 | 1 | Elevated cholesterol | Took the drug (5mg - lowest level) and quickly got good results (total cholesterol dropped from around 220 to around 170). Kept swallowing the daily pill with no apparent problem until 6 weeks ago. Muscles throughout my legs ached until the pain got so bad I couldn't sleep at night - however I positioned my legs I was in pain. Figured it was the bed, bought a beautiful new one - but still no sleep and the pain started in my lower back too. At the same time I was suffering terrible night sweats. One day my wife insisted it was Crestor - stopped the pill - after 24 hours 90% better, 48 hours later all these symptoms and more gone! Am now on natureopathics, cholesterol seems fine and NO poisons involved (turmeric, fiber, exercise etc). AVOID CRESTOR!! | M | 58 | 18 months | 9/19/2007 | 1 | high choloesterol 6.7 | General joint pain. Feel like I am walking on hot coals. Cant stand on tippy toes. Hands tight and skin feels as though it is stretched. Tired all the time. Feel like I am shivvering inside my body. Cold most of the time Severe GERD - thought I was having a heart attack. | Have decided that last night was my last dose - looking forward to positive results. Will maintain Cholesterol reducing diet and supplements. | F | 58 | 3 months 5mg 1X day | 10/15/2012 | 1 | high cholestrol & trigliserides | within 48hrs my thighs were weak, terrible joint pain. my knees had sharp strong pains, my ankles were unstable, could hear a crack sound some days in them. after 11 days i could no longer stand it, and stopped taking crestor. saw doctor next day she agreed stop it it causes muscle problems. but my main concern was it affected my left eye. I went and had an eye exam nothing wrong, but i told him on crestor, he was surprised as very few have eye muscle problems, my left eye was constantly contracting. Since stopping crestor (35 days) my eye problem has gone, but i still have great trouble going up stairs, i hope it will subside. I am now taking krill oil tablets and watching diet, my doctor said go back in 6 wks for a review. This crestor is really not good at all, I was shocked side effects can be permanent in some people. I will never take it again | before taking crestor talk about side effects with pharmacist. | F | 58 | 11 weeks 10 1X day | 8/28/2011 | 1 | high cholesteol | Got severe shoulder pain so bad I had to take pain killers.I cut the dowager to 10 milagrams after 4 days the pain was 70 % gone. I'm going to stop taking altogether and bet it will be gone. I didn't have that pain before I took crestor | M | 58 | 7 months 40 | 8/1/2012 | 1 | high cholesterol | trouble sleeping, waking up, bad dreams, trouble remembering things I should know immediately. | will continue to do fish oil, gugo lipo, diet and exercise. Do not need to be a part of the over medicating of America. | F | 58 | 28 days 5 mg 1X day | 10/10/2010 | 1 | High cholesterol | constent pain arms shoulder, sweats, cannot sleep day or night, pain in calves muscle, nightmares,cannot think clearly. | I have been off crestor one month not geting any better,pain and not sleeping seems to be killing me. Dr drew blood to see if I have Rhabdomyolysis. Question does anyone know how long this will go on.This drug is poison please do not take. I REALLY THINK IT HAS ME. | M | 58 | 2 months 20 mg 1X day | 10/7/2010 |