CRESTOR Reviews (ROSUVASTATIN)Average Rating: 1.7 (1262 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare CRESTOR with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR CRESTOR | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | High Cholesterol | Confusion, tiredness, forgetfulness,Transient Global Amnesia (TGA) episode confirmed in hospital, muscle pain | Changed diet and lowered my count naturally. The side effects aren't worth taking this drug. I lived in a fog for 4 years. | F | 63 | 4 years 5 1X day | 1/28/2014 | 1 | to lower colestoral levels | always very tired muscle spasms weakness in arms a rush of weakness with pain lasting 30-45 seconds hurts very much constipation weight gain aches and pains in muscles and joints can no longer walk 90 minutes a day too tired hip pain elevated blood sugars dispite a very healthy diet | after reading the comments I think I know why I think Im dying yes its that bad...I never feel well anymore and I blame this drug. My doctor does not even listen when i tell him how I feel so Im taking myself off this horrible drug and hoping to see a difference on how I feel | F | 63 | 5 years 10mg daily 1X day | 12/18/2014 | 1 | high cholesterol level | I have suffered from mid-thoracic back pain (bone) and muscle pain in the back for 5 years, about the time I was started on cholesterol lowering drugs. I thought this pain was work related and have had to retire early. I have had many treatments to relieve my pain such as steroid injections and even a very expensive Radio-frequency Neurotomy proceedure performed in six areas of my back. I am taking strong daily analgesics and Naproxen to help me cope. This can't be good for me! My concern though is that this has set up a viscous cycle that will be hard to reverse. I had gone off Crestor for a few weeks with only marginal relief. However my MD told me to go back on it at my last visit and things have gotten much worse. I exercise at a gym each day followed by a hot tub to maintain sanity. I would rather have a shorter life and higher lipid levels than fight with daily pain affecting all areas of my life. Sound familiar to anyone? | M | 63 | 12 months | 10/5/2009 | 1 | HIGH CHOLESTROL | SEVERE BACK PAIN, SO BAD I COULD HARDLY WALK. | DR. HAS TAKEN ME OFF THIS MED. | F | 63 | 3 years | 1/2/2010 | 1 | To lower cholesterol | Unbelieveable pain in both feet - Much like the pain experienced with gout only throughout the feet. Red, swollen and very difficult to walk. | Quit taking it and within 24 hours symptoms were almost gone. | M | 63 | 7 days | 12/4/2009 | 1 | high ldl | Cramping of leg and hand muscles. Pain in upper left quadrant of abdomen. Took it for 1 mth. Tests stated that it was eating away muscle tissue. Dr. wanted to lower it from 20mg to 10mg. I ceased taking it 4 days ago. Will go with diet and exercise. Still have some pain and lightheadedness. | M | 63 | 1 months | 12/15/2009 | 1 | high cholestrol | numbness in feet, muscles pains/cramps in arms, legs, neck, shoulder, & severe anxiety. Thought I was having a stroke. Have had MRI, CAT scan & heart scan - all normal. I quit taking after 3 years when I had a severe reaction. I felt like I was literally dying. A year later I am still suffering some side effects. | I have refused to take any statins for the past year despite Dr's warnings that the cholestrol will kill me. I just had a calcium test on arteries-O score. On 5/8/09, my cholestrol was 292. I began taking Mega Red fish oil & grape seed extract with resveratrol. On 6/13/09- my cholestrol was 233-59 pts lower in a little over a month!! My good cholestrol was up to 64. Try this combo if you can't tolerate statins & see if it helps. | F | 63 | 3 years | 6/16/2009 | 1 | high chloesterol | This is an update to my post of 10/25/08. I took Crestor for 3 yrs and experienced many of its worst side effects. One of the worst is the anxiety it left me with for the 1st time in my 63 yrs. I wanted to advise everyone that I discovered Sam-E Complete which has been a godsend in helping with the anxiety. | Many of the problems I thought were purely phyical - stroke like feelings, numbness in lips, feeling like something crawling on the skin-were manifestations of this anxiety brought on by this terrible drug. Hope the Sam-E Complete can help you too!! | F | 63 | 3 years | 2/20/2009 | 1 | cholesterol levels high | Lower back pain, legs get tired when walking - every day. Some days worst than others. | I am on Tricor which also has the same symptons as Crestor. Prior to Crestor my lower back pain was not as bad. Been on Crestor for about 6 months. I can see that Crestor significantly causes muscle pain in the majority of individuals posting here. | M | 63 | 6 months | 8/10/2008 | 1 | high cholesterol | First three weeks everything was normal, I was taking 10mg Crestor. Then, my right arm started to hurt, and my elbow was so swollen, I began to think I had broken my arm in my sleep or something, the arm was so weak, I could not do anything with it, I couldn't pick up anything...at first I thought it was arthritis, I didn't tie it to the medicine, until I started reading this blog. After a week of pain, I was leaving on a company trip to Italy, I stopped taking the Crestor...it has now been 10 days off, pain is reduced, but still there. I have still not been to my Doctor, (only three days home)I don't know if it helped the cholesteral or not, but it just ruined my trip to Italy, I was in so much pain. I will not take it again. | F | 63 | 3 days | 3/21/2008 | 1 | To lower cholestoral | Extreme mussle pain. Back pain so bad I couldn't walk. Kneck pain which prevented any movement of my head. Couldn't sleep because of the pain caused by the medication. | It lowered my cholestoral ... but the side effects were worse than having a heart attack. NOT WORTH THE SIDE EFFECTS! | F | 63 | 15 days | 4/12/2008 | 1 | High cholesterol | Joint pain, severe burning muscle pain - I feel like I've been beaten up! Feel weak, bruised, very sore, difficulty walking. Palpitations, tire very easily. Stomach problems, nausea. | Never had such miserable side effects. My Dr switched me from Pravachol to Crestor because of muscle pain. This is worse! Would never recommend this to anyone. Lucky are those few who never have side effects. Better to watch what I eat and concentrate on exercise. Hope that discontinuing drug will improve symptoms. | F | 63 | 4 months | 9/2/2007 | 1 | Cholesterol | Severe vulval painful itching- not at first linked to my being prescribed this drug - so I was treated for fungal and other conditions over three awful months . I was in agony unnecessarily as a result. An excellent female Skin specialist diagnosed problem andCrestor was ceased and problem abated and stopped some weeks later. Another specialist was concerned Re cholesterol and asked me to try resumption on a limited dose basis. Within a few weeks the vulval irritation resumed. So I do not now take this medication. | Crestor should make it very clear on its side effects list that a small percentage of women will suffer this reaction. My skin specialist was aware of some findings and released me from one of the worst medical episodes imaginable for a female. MD websites online are still telling women they cannot get vulval irritation from Crestor. This is unacceptable. Some women become suicidal with this symptom and I was close to understanding why. ....so if it happens to you see your Dr and ask to stop taking it to eliminate it as the source. That way you will not have to suffer long if it is the culprit. | F | 63 | 4 months | 12/19/2018 | 1 | Ldl was high | Foot swelling pain hips, elbows back leg cramps. Depression fatigue | Never take again stopped two days ago still in bed cant function want my life back | F | 63 | 2 months 5 1X day | 4/15/2021 | 5 | high cholestrol | calf ache? | Normalized and regularized my bowels, shrunk my prostate and lowered my PSA, relieved my sciatica, elevated my good cholestrol and lowerd my bad cholestrol. Indeed a wonder drug! This is the only medication I am taking. | M | 64 | 2 years 5 1X day | 12/9/2011 | 4 | High Cholesterol | Had severe muscle soreness the first time I took it. Sore to the point i could barely walk. Had to stop the drug. However, was watching Dr. Oz on TV, who recommended taking 200mg of CoQ10. Apparently Crestor depletes the CoQ10 in the muscles causing problems. I started taking the CoQ10, went back on the Crestor and have been pain free. It works!!!!! | F | 64 | 90 days 10mg 1X day | 8/4/2010 | 3 | Elevated cholestrol | Increasing joint pain { right hip, right knee; always had back pain so can't say if related }fairly recent neck stiffness, pain; over the years went to Chiropractics, several different Internist | A week ago, stopped on my own of taking Crestor to see if any relation; been reading these reports and realize of the possibility; substituted Phytosterols and Metamucil...maybe it's my imagination, but feeling bettor every day; especially with more energy. | M | 64 | 1.5 years 20mg 1X day | 3/21/2011 | 3 | yes | pain in my arms and legs, stomach cramps so bad that you could not touch my lower stomach without the pain shooting though my body | my sister is who 67 and myself both take 5mg of crestor and experince stomach cramps and bleeding. reported the bleeding to our obgyn who took tests and could not find the cause of the bleeding.I stop taking crestor and the bleeding stopped. want to know if anyone else has had this experince? | F | 64 | 12 months | 5/6/2008 | 2 | I have very high cholesterol | I have been experiencing leg and foot cramps and a sore shoulder since I started taking the drug in 1/09. Initially, I had some gastro side effects which eventually went away. | I have had muscle issues with Lipitor so was taken off of that several years ago after a short time of usage. My doctor recommended I have a heart scan and I got a score of zero which seemed to indicate that though I had high cholesterol my arteries were clear of plaque. But a recent carotid scan showed a very minimal buildup of plaque so again my doctor said let's try Crestor which is water soluable instead of fat soluable like the other statins. He has now taken me off of the drug to see if my muscle spasms and cramping go away and we can blame the drug. I also have hypothroidism and the information about Crestor says the drug should be administered very carefully to people with this condition. I as a general rule am very anti-drug. I know for every benefit their is a downside...a side effect and maybe a few years from now they come out and tell you how unsafe it actually is. The drug companies want all of us on statins. But with my cholesterol so high, I just don't know what to do. | F | 64 | 4 months | 5/6/2009 | 2 | i have super high cholesterol - 600 | After three weeks on 10 mgm crestor, my cholesterol dropped to half of what it had been [about 300 in your system] then i went to 20 mgm and it went to just above normal - but i failed the first liver function test taken 12 weeks after i started on crestor. | My sister got muscle problems after some years on lipitor and she switched to crestor - she's on 40mgm which is a real lot - so far so good but i expect she'll get more problems. I have stopped taking crestor while I think about what to do next. I think i'll try Dr Linus Pauling's advice - vitamin C and L-proline and L-lysine. They are natural stuff. If Crestor gives you muscle aches, that can kill you! | F | 64 | 12 weeks | 1/19/2010 |