CRESTOR Reviews (ROSUVASTATIN)Average Rating: 1.7 (1262 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare CRESTOR with similar:
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| 1 | my triglicerites were 20 over norma | For all those suffering the severe muscle damage & pain caused by the use of crestor I have found a great deal of relief from a procedure known as prolotherapy! it is a natural method but has worked amazing. Im back to work & has improved my life so much!! I was very sceptical at first but works immediately & is amazing. who would have thaught that medical sugar water could do this. good luck! | M | 48 | 10 1X day | 5/3/2012 Patient History | 1 | husband for cholesterol | He has violent out rages and mood swings. Lost weight. Almost a personality change. Always angry and in a rage. Doc keep just giving repeat scripts without proper checking up. He does not believe me that it could be the crestor | M | 50 | 1 years 5 mg | 4/23/2012 | 1 | High LDL | Severe inflammation in sacroiliac region since Day 1. Also general malaise and feeling a bit 'off'. All tolerable until tonight, when I took a 6 hour flight and experienced acute chest pain throughout. The drama in me thought 'heart attack' but rationally it feels muscular. Stopping Crestor immediately and looking for alternatives to statins. | F | 44 | 6 days 5mg 1X day | 4/17/2012 | 1 | Prescribed after a double by pass | Excruciating pains in the calfs and thighs; anemia, shortness of breath, fever, panic attacks | The doctor also felt his cholesterol at 200 was too high, and was happy that his cholesterol dropped to 101. The leg pains haven't gone away even though he immediately stopped taking Crestor; the blood tests showed hemoglobin count of 11 instead of 14, white blood cells went up and the sedimentation rate, which indicates infection somewhere in the body, was 108 instead of 0 to 20. He is presently in the hospital so they could run a battery of tests sooner rather than late. I would love to hear from Crestor users who also experienced severe pains of the calfs and thighs, fever, shortness of breath, panic attacks, etc. | M | 83 | 4 months 5 1X day | 4/12/2012 | 1 | High Cholesterol | severe pain in feet, legs, chest, arms, hands, neck and lower back. blurred vision, dizziness, extreme fatigue, bloat, weight gain | I am stopping my dosage as of today. I want to make sure that this is the drug causing the problems. I am also on a daily dose of effient. | M | 50 | 4 months 20 1X day | 4/5/2012 | 1 | High cholesterol | Bad pain in hamstring all the time. I would love to be included in a class action lawsuit I was fine before this crap. Never take this it will ruin your life. 44 years old and can't run with my grandson thanks a lot you poison pushers. Stopped taking 2 months ago pain does not go away. Will speak to lawyers hope to have a lawsuit someday. | M | 44 | 3 months 10 mg | 4/4/2012 | 1 | Hi LDL | Pain all over my body, Back, Knee. | M | 67 | 2 years 40mg 1X day | 3/13/2012 | 1 | To lower chlosterol | All of a sudden this fall my muscles are aching like hell, I've got unexplained brusing in my muscles, I can hardly walk, leg muscles tingling, etc, etc..... I got off it and all went away within 4 days.... I will NEVER go back on that crap. | M | 64 | 6 years 10mg 1X day | 3/6/2012 | 1 | High Colesterol | Pain in lower back, knees, calves and feet. | I'm diabetic. Dr first had me on 10mg(3 months) but LDL was 126. He said for diabetics it should be below 100. He then put me on 20mg(3 months) and in 2nd month started having pain in lower back radiating all the way down to bottom of feet. Went to Dr and he said sciatica. I saw commercial on TV stating side effects so I plan on going back to Dr and asking him why didn't he think to correlate it to medicine. Think he has deal with Pharmaceutical company because he recently prescribed 40mg and told me to cut it in half. Was pretty pricey at walgreens. | M | 73 | 6 months 20mg 1X day | 3/3/2012 | 1 | This stuff is dangerous...there's no way heart palpitations, tendonitis (feet and elbow) are acceptable trade-offs...god knows what it's doing to my liver/kidneys. I'm going off it and trying something else. Kinda P.O.d at the doctor for giving it to me...the simvastatin was worse on the joint pain...and the niaspan raised my sugar. Jeesh. | F | 59 | 60 days 10 mg 1X day | 2/28/2012 | 1 | High LDL -arterialsclorosis | Muscle tightness, very tight feeling in head. Felt like my brain was in a fog. Very tired, always felt slightly depressed, hard to concentrate. Complete loss of libido, unable to get an erection even with Viagra. Thought it was aging. Finally decided to try getting off the crestor 5 days ago. Libido returning, able to get normal erections , other problems seem to be getting better. Will not take statins again as I realize I have had the same problems to a lesser extent on other statins | M | 63 | 7 months 40mg 1X day | 2/21/2012 | 1 | High cholesterol | This drug is awful! I have horrible muscle pains, ankles hurt all the time, lots of bloating and constipation. I went jogging one summer night and almost died! Everything hurt so bad, I could not take another step...I am 49, 5ft 5, 149 lbs, always been in good health (except for heredity, blood pressure and cholesterol). Since taking Crestor, I also have been having increased aggression and anger, feelings of hatred, and bad moods. Hips hurt too all the time! I am getting off of this crap, and resorting to natural ways to stay healthy. I DO NOT RECOMMEND THIS DRUG FOR ANYTHING (UNLESS YOU WANT TO DIE). | It's a loser. | M | 49 | 7 months 10 1X day | 2/19/2012 | 1 | high cholesterol | FATTY LIVER, insomnia with my mind racing, fatigue, memory loss, disoriented and out of it - mind wasn't clear, muscle pain in legs so bad at times I hated to walk, diarrhea, stiff neck, wrists ached | WARNING,THIS IS A COSTLY, DANGEROUS DRUG! I'm reporting these side effects to the FDA. The only reason I'm writting this is to maybe help someone else, who may be struggling as I have from using this drug. I'm angry that my doctor kept telling me, the drug was the best on the market and wouldn't take me off of it for 8 mos. Through a recent CT scan it showed I had developed fatty liver. I went off Crestor on Feb. 1, 2012, and told my doctor that I will never take Crestor or any other statin again! I'm a 67 year old female, who just prior to taking it felt and looked 10 years younger. Once I took it I was hardly functioning and felt like 97. I am working with my doctor to lower my cholesterol with diet and a more natural way. I'm feeling better already with less fatigue in just a week. Hopefully I don't have any permanent damage to my body. It's the quality of life that's important! | F | 67 | 8 months 5mg. 1X day | 2/10/2012 | 1 | ELEVATED CHOLESTEROL | Started taking Crestor 10 mg 2009 noted some muscle weakness,chest and shoulder pain with memory problems in the first year. My dosage was increased to 20 mg and this is when things got really bad. Extreme fatique, thigh, groin. arm, neck, pain in my rib cage. Problems with my memory increased. Unable to think clearly at times, saying the wrong words all the time. Thinking I was developing early alzheimers or something. Was unable to tolerate long periods of standing. Unable to do yardwork anymore due to easily exhausted. Difficulty sleeping due to the pain. Saw many doctors that tried to diagnose me with arthritis, fibromyalgia. even sent me to Duke thinking it could be MS. I decided to stop in on my own, being a nurse and knowing that statins can cause myalgias. Was also told by pharmacist that you don't have to have elevated liver function tests to have this drug cause Myalgias. After being off of the med for over a year now. I have regained my memory, not nearly as fatiqued but lef | F | 47 | 2 years 20MG 1X day | 2/3/2012 | 1 | cholesterol | primarily developed with back pain,in couple of months first time i passed bloody urine and doc said it was infection. Taken antibiotic again with in 15days the same problem. consulted urologist underwent all tests found nothing and no complication. So upset with with this medicine, stopped for the past 3 weeks and do know how log it will take to over come from this problem. | M | 49 | 10 months 5mg 1X day | 1/28/2012 | 1 | Cholesterol | Muscle pain upper right side of body | F | 76 | 2 months 10mg | 1/27/2012 | 1 | Elevated Cholesterol | Excrutiating shoulder pain, back pain and kidney pain. Severe stomach flu like symptoms, severe joint and muscle pain, stiff neck, tingling hands, sharp pain in right palm, dizzy, jittery, disorientated, swelling of hands and feet, heart palpitations, insomnia, tired and sleepy but cannot sleep. | When my GP prescribed Crestor 10mg I asked about the side effects but she told me that there are minimal to no side effects so I commenced treatment. Two weeks later I thought I had a kidney infection so my GP gave me antibiotics. A week later there was still no change so I got a second course of antibiotics. I then started doing research and immediately discontinued treatment when I saw how toxic it was. Two weeks after discontinuing medication I still have the side effects is bit better in the morning and then worsens during the day until evening when I have to take something for pain. I am trying to establish the duration of the side effects and if some could be permanent. | F | 39 | 14 days 10mg 1X day | 1/24/2012 | 1 | High cholesterol | Severe Muscle/joint pain. Quit taking after Achilles tendon inflamed with insertional tendonitis. Calcification on x-rays. took 6 months of physical therapy just now able to walk without pain. Heel drop stretches daily and new shoes seem to be the final fix. | M | 50 | 24 months 80mg 1X day | 1/17/2012 | 1 | high cholesterol | major lower back muscle ache, severe constipation | M | 66 | 3 months 10 mg | 1/12/2012 | 1 | yes | started at 1/2 5 mg for 1 week, then daily at 5 mg. 3 days after daily 5 mg, horrible thigh pains. reported to doctor actually and she said to go 1/2 tablet every other day....NOT! The pain is still there 3 days after stopping. These statins decrease quality of life! | M | 66 | 10 days 5 mg 1X day | 1/5/2012 |