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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR CRESTOR | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | high cholesterol | I was originally put on 10 mg and the leg and feet cramps were unbearable. These were made worse after exercising. I finally cut my dose in half and only took it every other night but I still had problems. I have a job working on a computer and have had prior carpal and cubital tunnel surgery. Even after the surgery, my wrists and elbows would ache and the numbness would go down my fingers. I thought it was coming back until I stopped taking Crestor and realized my pain was coming from the drug. | I have also tried Pravachol,Lipitorand Zocor. They have all done the same thing to me. | F | 50 | 1 years 5 mg 1X day | 6/12/2011 | 1 | to regulate my cholesterol level | excruciating pains in my right leg, back muscole pain, swelling of my wrist & pain in my arm | Crestor reduced my bad cholesterol level, but provoked muscle pain, which has been very hard to bear. If I had the choice now of taking or not taking Crestor, I would have chosen not to have taken it. | F | 62 | 2 years 1X day | 6/10/2011 | 1 | High Cholesterol | In February 2011 my doctor convinced me to up my dosage to 10 mg even though my numbers were good. He wanted to see them improve. Within 3 weeks I had severe leg pain from hip to knee. I went back to 5mg. As of today I still have discomfort in my left hip and have a noticeable limp most of the time. I had a bad experience with Zocarr 20mg about 10 years ago. I was only in my forties and I ached terribly. I finally realized from a tv commercial that muscle ache was a side affect and stopped the Zocarr. After a few years my doctor at the time convinced me to try Crestor 5 mg. It did a great job lowering my numbers but I never really felt as good physically. As the FDA finally shares this important information I decided no more statins for me. The doctors and the drug companies are done using me as a science experiment. Eat right, exercise and enjoy life to its fullest. | M | 54 | 5 years 5mg 1X day | 6/9/2011 | 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 | cholestrol | muscle pain ...breathing problems...swelling throat and tongue...numbness lips ..slurring speech...have been off 6 wks ..feeling much better | M | 63 | 8 months 5mg 1X W | 5/29/2011 | 1 | High Cholesterol | Server pain in my left side chest area, lower back pain, painful feet can hardly walk at times, hurts to raise my shoulders, left elbow hurts all the time, all my fingers feel num. | Even though I have high cholesterol, I eat a healthy diet, and exercise, I did not want to take statins, until my GP insisted on it. My chest pain is so server that i think I'm having an heart attach, my feet are so painful to put them on the floor, this has now stopped me exercising, and with all the other problems, I would rather have high cholesterol, than all this. I feel that I have put 20 years on my life. I don't recommend these to anyone. | F | 55 | 1 months 5 1X day | 5/27/2011 | 1 | for cholesterol | M | 55 | 20 mg 1X day | 5/26/2011 | 1 | High Cholesterol | weakness in hands and feet, can't walk without crutches or help, can't do normal activities, no strength in arms or legs | Stopped taking on May 16, still feel the same hopefully get better soon and walk again | M | 43 | 7 months 5mg 1X day | 5/24/2011 | 1 | high colestrol | at 1st shoulder pains , then terrible groin and stomach, headaches , chest pains and lump in the throat | change my diet and get off this drug asap | M | 46 | 3 months 1X day | 5/18/2011 | 1 | Very dizzy, mucscle aches and severe depression - don't want to see anyone or go outside - just feel like crying. think I should stop taking this drug. | F | 63 | 2 months 30 1X day | 5/16/2011 | 1 | cholesterol | Muscle and joint pain, neuropathy | Finally put 2+2 together and realized that the Crestor is slowly making me crippled. Have felt like a 100 yr old woman getting up and down out of chairs and my couch. Started getting numbness in feet, hands and arms during sleep which has now gotten worse. i've stopped taking crestor and are taking some vitamins in hope to reverse the neuropathy. Going to tell my doctor at my next visit in a couple weeks that I'm not going back on any statins. Hopefully I feel a difference soon. | F | 51 | 10 years 20 mg 1X day | 5/13/2011 | 1 | HIGH CHOLESTEROL | Anxiety and depression I have stopped the drug allready | This is the third one I have tried to take. I obviously can not take them | F | 45 | 5 1X day | 5/11/2011 | 1 | high cholesterol | Overall aches and pains, especially in my upper legs | I was on Zocor for about 9 months first. It really helped my cholesterol numbers, but I was in agony. My doctor told me to stop taking it, lose some weight and we'd recheck the numbers in a few months. I felt so much better but the numbers went up again. He insisted I should try Crestor. Within weeks, I was back to pain - couldn't walk, get up from sitting, do stairs. After a year, I said that was it. I found a supplement that had red yeast rice in it that was supposed to lower cholesterol without the painful side effects. I've been off Crestor for two months and feel like a new person again. I am exercising a lot more, watching what I eat and will be checking the numbers in another month. I don't ever want to go on any statin again. | F | 57 | 1 years 10 mg 1X day | 5/11/2011 | 1 | High Cholesterol | Joint pain, gout, pain in the ball of my feet, fatigue. | My cardiologist has tried me on several cholesterol meds, but they have all had a negative affect on my kidneys, thus I was switched to a different med. Crestor has lowered my cholesterol and doesn't show any kidney problems in my blood work. HOWEVER, I have never been in such pain in my life. It started with hip and knee pain. Then the ball of my foot and toes have hurt to walk on for 2 months. Now my shoulder hurts so badly I can't lift anything. Just this week, I have 2 knuckles in my fingers swelled with gout. I finally googled Crestor pain and found this website and many others with similar problems. I have stopped Crestor and will not go back on. Hopefully the joint problems will go away with time. It's gotten to the point I feel like a 90 year old. By the end of the day I can barely walk up a flight of stairs my pain is so bad. It's gotten to the point that I am sitting on a heating pad for hip pain, icing my shoulder, I wrapped 2 toes because I thought maybe I had somehow broken them (but I am confident now it's pain in the ball of the foot as it is now hurting in both feet), I have been eating cherries for the gout and ibuprofen by the handful each day. What a mess and I'm only 43. My parents are getting around far better than I am. I am determined to stay off the cholesterol meds and figure out a natural remedy or supplement. I will live with the high cholesterol rather than all this pain even if it does take a few years off. Quality of life should | F | 43 | 4 months 10 1X day | 5/6/2011 | 1 | high cholesterol | general fatigue, crippling joint pain, back pain | I was on crestor for 3 months. generally felt lousy. had tennis elbow for whole time that wouldn't go away, trouble sleeping. i would take 1800mg advil at night and wake up in middle of night to take more. I accidentally forgot to take meds for 4 days on a trip and everything disappeared. I stopped for 2 weeks and told my doctor I was not taking it again. He said i was in 5% of population who couldn't metabolize it and tried to put me on another drug. i refused. DO NOT TAKE THIS DRUG. I continue to have joint pain 1 month later and am afraid of permanent damage. Also, i became very forgetful towards end of 3 months. I will never touch this again. | M | 42 | 90 days 10 1X day | 5/5/2011 | 1 | HIGH CRP LEVEL | After only being on Crestor x 3 wks, I had begun to develop what felt like brain fog and fatigue...just could not think clearly at all and all I wanted to do was lay on the couch. Meanwhile, my ankles began to be extremely painful, and swelling to the point of not being able to see my ankle bone, then came the hip, knee and wrist pain and stiffness. Somehow through all the brain fog, I realized this all came on me since I had been taking the Crestor. After the 3rd week I stopped taking it. It has been 3 wks since I have been off it and still the ankle swelling and stiff joints. My GP has done blood work to check for muscle damage, but was nl. Pain and swelling was so bad, I ended up at an urgent care, thought I had gout in my ankles, doc said it could be an effect from Crestor, gave me 2 wk rx of prednisone in hopes it would reduce my swelling, which it did. Uric acid level came back nl. Swelling and pain came back soon after taking all prednisone. Back to GP this wk, ds | THIS DRUG WILL CRIPPLE YOU, DO NOT..I REPEAT..DO NOT TAKE THIS ****!!!! | F | 38 | 2 weeks 5 MG 1X day | 5/1/2011 | 1 | high cholestrol | had to completely stop this and other statins that i tried. Made it so that I couldn't walk! Thought I was going to be in a wheelchair. Problems in legs, knees went away after stopping the medication. | F | 54 | 3 months 10 1X day | 4/27/2011 | 1 | High LDL | Sore ankles, muscles at hip joints, neck, back, along with numbness in toes. Memory loss, decreased muscle strength, no energy, no desire to exercise due to sore muscles and weakness. Constant muscle ache, especially at night. Must sleep to get relief. | Crestor will bring blood LDLs etc. into line, but the side effects are very hard to deal with. In this case the cure may be more harmful than the disease itself. | M | 68 | 4 months 10 mg 1X day | 4/18/2011 | 1 | statins | Ok i wrote a thread on 3/3/2011 regarding the severe pain in my ancles / legs and arm which basicaly reduced me to a criple i needed a stick for support as the pains in my feet were so bad..had xrays but all proved normal ..doctor said it could be a chipped bone yep could be!!!!!..i said to my doc well if its a chipped bone in my left foot then how come i now got the same pains apearing in my right foot .......could be inflamation etc etc etc no way could it be the statins anyway to cut to the chace i have stopped taking these statins as an experiment and up to date now 15/04/2011 (took about 8 weeks to get e'm out of my system) I can walk again without any discomfort - I dont need a stick for support anymore and life is back to normal and i can now walk arround normally...will i take this tablet from hell again - no way i will try keeping my cholesteral down by normal means if it exeeds the limit then tough its better that a life of pain and being crippled..sorry for being so blunt but thats what they did to me. | M | 71 | 5 years 20 1X day | 4/15/2011 | 1 | high choleterol | Slight headache, terrible weakness in legs and arms, arms and hands tingle sensation, Muscle spasms and cramps in the legs and lower back. | I was on 10 MG for some time, Doctor increased the dosage to 20 MG about 2 months ago, since then I have the headaches, never had a history or headache before. I have been for blood tests and Doctor said every thing is normal. I have gained 60 LBS. because of inability to do anything due to the sever pains in legs and arms and back. It seems like a vicious circle I am in , Doctor says I need to exercise, How if I can't move ? I am at a lose ! | M | 57 | 2 years 20 MG 1X day | 4/12/2011 |