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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR CRESTOR | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | To lower Cholorsetrol | Fatigue- Muscle soreness, apathy | M | 60 | 8 months 10MG 1X day | 7/22/2010 | 1 | Cholesterol level was 297 | I was taking another medication but my level only went down to 273. The first month my cholesterol went from 273 to 155 on Crestor. The doctor wanted me to continue and wrote a script for a few months at the end of March. I have been having trouble losing weight even though I have been exercising and eating less. I have been having headaches recently as well, last night was bad. Brain fog, definitely. Last weekend I experienced flu like symptoms, my back ached all over and I was very sensitive to the touch. I did not have the flu. Woke up the next morning and I was fine. I called the doctor's office this morning to advise and when they called back I was told to quit taking crestor for the next 3-4 weeks and then schedule a visit. | F | 50 | 6 months 20 mg 1X day | 7/16/2010 | 1 | High cholesteral | Believe me,when I say, the pain is UNBELIEVEABLE !I have ALL of the following.......Severe leg cramps, the whole leg, in both, spasms.Swollen legs.Can't walk, stand, lay or sit down for long, as the muscles spasms, are just to severe.Can not bend over, most of the time, as the muscles just lock up.They feel like they are tearing.Right leg swelled to double its size. Hard to rise from a chair or bed.Skin tender to the touch. Severe lower back pain.Atrophy.Sunken,shoulder muscles. Poor balance.Feel like I am going to fall, if I turn.Weakness. Insomnia.Mild nausea.Poor memory.Trouble concentrating. Have a hard time, finishing sentences.My thinking just goes blank.Cold, most of the time.Hard to climb stairs.Thinning hair. Vision is worse and blurry at times.I have seen the eye doctor. Gagging in my throat at times, when I try to talk, it's getting worse | Slowly I have become more and more weak.There have been so many things,creep up on me, I just thought, that it might be old age.I had the TV on the other day and I heard someone mention, that if you were on a cholesterol lowering medication and your legs were bothering you, that you should have it checked out by a doctor.I would rather live with high cholesterol, than take Crestor !I just hope it has not damaged my liver,kidneys or legs permanently | F | 61 | 2 years low dose 1X day | 7/15/2010 Patient History | 1 | High cholesterol | You might as well take a cyanide pill if you take Crestor. I took it for one night and work up feeling like I had been run over by a Mac truck. I only took 1/2 tablet of a 10 mg because I was nervous about taking it. I barely slept all night, had frequent urination on the hour and woke up with severe muscle aches. I still ache after 3 days. I have tried Simvastatin 20 mg and after a month on that, had peripheral neuropathy so bad I could barely sit still with my feet just buzzing away like a million pins were in them. Also, increased GERD and mouth sores. I am ready to give up on statins. I wasted $65 copay on Crestor while Simvastatin is $10.00. I wish you could return pills to the pharmacy when they don't work out. | F | 53 | 1 days 10 mg 1X day | 7/15/2010 | 1 | high cholestrol | Severe knee pain. I could hardly get up the stairs after two weeks. Pain in the lower right side. Trembling thumb | My doctor prescribed Crestor after I had muscle and confusion side effects from Zocor. I tolerated Zocor for 10 months. I can no longer tolerate the pain that has come from Crestor. | F | 50 | 2 weeks 5mg 1X day | 7/14/2010 | 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 | High cholesterol | Who needs death panels when we have Crestor? Just a few weeks on this stuff nearly killed my 83 year old mother. She became so weak that she could not lift herself up from a chair. After rolling off of her bed, she became trapped in her comforter and almost died from heat and dehydration. Thank God I found her and called 911. After 2 days in the hospital, she is still too weak to even crawl onto her bed. Before Crestor, she was walking to the market by herself. | F | 83 | 22 days 10 mg 1X day | 7/6/2010 | 1 | To increase hdl | Severe pain in both knees & right shoulder pain. Weakness. | M | 41 | 2 months 40mg 1X day | 6/14/2010 | 1 | high cholesterol | insomnia, muscle aches uper arms, burping, mild nausea, mild headache, unexplained depression feelings,muscle weakness | tested ldl went from 4.1 down to 1.7, hdl from 1.0 to 1.45. stopped crestor, everything went back to normal within 4 days,excpet the nausea which took another week to subside. stayed off statins for 2 weeks, started again 5mg per day...its been 3 days and I have insomnia AGAIN and burping, and a mid headache. I am perfectly health otherwise bp 100/60, bmi 21, resting heart rate 40 bla bla low GI diet, plenty exercise cannot go on like this. | M | 46 | 23 days 20mg 1X day | 6/5/2010 | 1 | lower cholesterol | After being taken off Lipitor due to muscle pain in both shoulders I was switched to Crestor 5mg about a year ago. Then 4 months ago dosage was upped to 10mg and gradually developed muscle pain in both calves,culminating in intense pain and severe cramping. | Otherwise very healthy and active, and run once a week four to five miles and weights once a week. Only muscles affected on Crestor were calf muscles, and only after dosage increase. | M | 50 | 1 years 10mg 1X day | 5/29/2010 | 1 | High Cholesterol | Started with 5 mg which did not lower my cholesterol level. Dr. doubled the dose to 10 MG and shortly thereafter I started experiencing symptoms including: stomach pain, diarrhea, arm pain, nausea, weakness, fatigue, dehydration, shaking, dark brown urine, pale stool, bloating. Ended up in intensive care to rehydrate and get oxygen. Liver function tests have improved slightly, but it is still swollen. | This is a horrible drug. If your doctor tries to prescribe it to you, just say "NO". | F | 46 | 14 days 10 MG 1X day | 5/28/2010 | 1 | High Cholesterol (not extreme) | I'm a healthy 25 year old apart from my cholesterol, which is a hereditary condition, not one caused by circumstances. Ever since Crestor I've had Weakness in muscles, fatigue, can't think straight, pain in the lower right part of my abdomen, mood swings, depression and more. | Was on Lipitor before but it was doing slight liver damage so doctor prescribed Crestor instead. I don't recall ever feeling like this on Lipitor. | M | 25 | 4 weeks 20MG 1X day | 5/26/2010 | 1 | familial cholesterimia | I've had extremely high liver enzymes for 2 months. I stopped taking Crestor when the first lab results came back. After a month, I underwent a liver biopsy. The pathologist says that it is "drug induced hepatitis" with lesions commonly seen with Crestor. My enzymes are slow to fall but are coming down from 900 to 550. Normal for me was 24 before Crestor. I am absolutely livid at what I've gone through the past few months. Major discomfort due to a swollen liver, extreme fatigue, fuzzy headed in the morning, and fear as the enzymes climbed. Still going through tests as the liver is still inflamed but getting better. My husband took Crestor a couple of years ago and was involved in a study. He had to stop as he had extreme muscle pain and fatigue. | F | 65 | 8 months 20 1X day | 5/25/2010 | 1 | Type 2 Diabetic/High Chol & Trig | After 6 months, developed severe pain in both knees. Pain woke me from a sound sleep; could not walk. Went to several knee docs. Diagnosed with "pseudo-gout." No doc ever diagnosed the pain could be from Crestor! Last month, needed to be taken to ER. Thought I was having a stroke. Couldn't move my legs or lift my right arm without severe pain. Again, said it "could" be arthritis. Nothing ever shows up on MRI or x-rays. I'm going off Crestor! | F | 55 | 1 years 10mg 1X day | 5/25/2010 | 1 | I became very moody, irritable and suffered from anxiety. I had frequent headaches and became dizzy when bending down. My lower extremeties were always numb, tingling and feld cold. My began to have frequent back soreness and muscle spasms. I have stopped taking this medication and hope my symptoms will subside although I have been told that the side effects may be permanent. | M | 56 | 3 months 10 mg 1X day | 5/23/2010 | 1 | High LDL and high cholesterol | Nausea, loss of appetite, burping, feel cold, headache, dizziness, exhausted, trouble concentrating, feel much older, fogginess --just feel really unwell and I never have these issues. | A high starting dose, I have read. Even at a lower dose, I am not sure I want to take Crestor. | F | 50 | 1 weeks 20 mg 1X day | 5/19/2010 | 1 | high cholestrol | well its 1.30 in the morningand i cant get back to sleep i awoke in a panic which i beleive thesetablets have caused, also joint pain sweating and stomach ache, was prescribed 20mg first four weeks after which then rises to 40mg but feel so ill on them im gonna go back to my gp and get something else.... i agree with the comments on here saying it feels like you have been poisoned because thats really just how you feel | M | 50 | 4 weeks 20mg 1X day | 5/19/2010 | 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 | Heavy legs, sore muscles everywhere, knee pain, calf pain, throat swelling, fatigue, dizziness, nightly sleep disturbances, and finally a severe lung infection and pneumonia. | I felt as I had aged considerably while taking Crestor. Before Crestor, I was 100% healthy, didn't have a sick day at work for 25 years! I walked 2 miles a day almost everyday. I did 30 minutes weight lifting 2 times a week, and stretched daily. This was my routine for 12 years. After taking Crestor for 7 months, I stopped my daily walking and other exercise workouts. I was too tired to do any of it. I became a couch potato. Walking steps was becoming impossible. The last straw was a severe lung infection that turned into pneumonia in April 2010. I'm still battling with that even after 4 weeks. If I had stayed on Crestor, I would have become completely sedentary and probably become wheel chair bound. All the benefits of lower cholesterol would be negated by a sedenary lifestyle and I would probably have died from inactivity which contributes to heart diesease and stroke. I have many female family members who are living way into their 90s and who take zero prescriptions. I told my Doctor I will no longer take any prescriptions and hope to resume my exercise routine. I will take high doses of vitamins, drink lots of water and move everyday. I hope this will help me to resume living a more active and pain free lifestyle and make it to age 100. Cholesterol drugs are very dangerous and should not be used by anyone. They are way over-prescribed. The whole high cholesterol thing is a scam made up by the prescription drug companies in order to get every person in | F | 63 | 7 months 5 mg 1X day | 5/16/2010 | 1 | High LDL | muscle pain and stiffness; hot flashes; urinary problems; sleeplessness; IBS; stomach pains; back pain. | I've tried various statins and Lovasa. I experienced terrible side effects with all of them. My doctor was not aware that these side effects were caused by these statins and attributed them to various other things. I stopped Crestor and immediately started feeling better. I have no more back or muscle pain, etc. I am trying red yeast rice with KOQ10 with no side effects so far. | F | 68 | 45 days 5 1X day | 5/15/2010 |