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| 2 | hereditary high cholesterol | Fortunately, none of the painful muscle effects I have read in the other postings....some constipation, but unexplained weight gain of 20 POUNDS!!!!This totally SUCKS!! I have been a healthy person who works out (not a fanatic, but I always try to keep reasonably fit, 3-4 times per week),non-smoker, healthy eater, I normally dont drink b/c I don't want the extra "empty"calories. No matter what I do, I can't drop a single ounce. I may be able to get 4-5 lbs off, comes right back on. I even tried Jenny Craig, same thing. I have had other testing done & my rmr (resting metabolic rate) is above average. On the JC diet, they start you off at 1200 calories. I never made it past that level & lost 6 lbs that came right back on. I did the diet for at least 3-4m onths. MY workout program includes cardio-kickboxing, low weights, walking, and other cardio. I also feel like my muscles are not firming up like they should...I read in a previous post that the muscles just | F | 40 | 4 years | 5/6/2008 | 2 | High Cholesterol | 20mg daily. Severe, I mean severe, knee joint pain. Left knee worse. Could not sleep. Ringing in left ear, tinitis, and loss of libido. Sugar and binge eating cravings in evenings. | PCP said it was the onset of bursitis and tried to prescribe another med. THANKFULLY I found this site and 2 weeks off it now the knee joint pain and ringing in ear has subsided. Hopefully with my strict diet, exercise and Lavaza,(WORKS GREAT), for LDL I can manage the High Cholesterol. | M | 47 | 5 months | 5/2/2008 | 2 | High Triglycerides and Low HDL | Muscle pain mainly in my legs (which was better when I remembered to take 100mg of CoQ10), memory problems, headaches, became more and more irritable as time went on (to the point that my wife didn't know what would make me mad), but finally quit taking it when my blood sugar hit the 400's. It took two to three weeks after quitting the 10mg Crestor for my blood sugar to come back down under 120 (doctor didn't think it was connected). He just started me on Niaspan. | After the original blood tests the doctor gave me 3 months to try diet and supplements, started taking 900mg of pantethine a day. My triglycerides went from 444 to 354. A year and a half taking 10mg Crestor (I did quit taking the pantethine every day) triglycerides went from 354 to 219. Total cholesterol went from 204 to a low of 117. My HDL actually went down from 27 to 22. Hopefully the Niaspan will help. | M | 43 | 1.5 years | 4/30/2008 | 2 | is this possible??/ I was on Simvastatin for high cholesterol (around 200mg) but was put onto Crestor to try to hget it lower, as I have hard 2 stents fitted. I started on 5mg/day for 2 weeks then upped to the correct dose 0f 10mg. Have only taken 10 3 times and today went out for a short walk and i thought my legs were going to stop working, pains in thighs and calfs, really as if i had run for 100 mtrs. Is this possible so quickly??? No side effects of simvastatin | M | 59 | 4 days | 3/29/2008 | 2 | high bad cholesterol | Severe stomach pain and headache | M | 53 | 2 years | 3/8/2008 | 2 | Dr Recommended that I switch to it | Just an overwhelming sense of despair. | Hard to tell what part the drug caused in side effect. I must admit I have not felt that depressed since. | M | 44 | 45 days | 3/8/2008 | 2 | Heart Bypass | Unable to Breath - I switched from Zocor to Crestor 10mg a few months ago and noticed I no longer had muscle pain. My lipid profile was getting better, LDL 3.7mmo/L (143mg/dL), HDL 1mmo/L (39mg/dL), but I noticed what I thought was a continous continous acid reflux (but wider, not just in the center of the chest), and occassionally woke up gasping for air. My Cardioligist then increased the dose to 20mg. During the days that followed I found it difficult to breath, and after 3 days woke up unable to get enough air. I walked to the hospital and noticed I could regain my breath whilst active, but when I relaxed in the waiting room it returned. Chest X-Ray, ECG and blood tests later, it seemed I was not short on oxygen in the blood, and it wasn't a heart attack. They couldn't say what was causing it, but suggested I sleep with two pillows under my head. Switched back to 10mg the next day and it hasn't returned. I'm thinking now that the continious stomache ache is actually a lung ache! | I had my bypass in 1997. And have in the past tried Lipitor, Pravocol, Simvahexal and Zocor. Think I'll switch to 5mg Crestor + Ezetrol 10mg (as well as Plavix 10mg + 4g Salmon Oil which I'm on now), and see how that goes. Plavix is much better for me than 81mg asprin was (it used to give me intestine pain). Hoping that D-4F or something similar will come to the rescue in the near future. | M | 46 | 4 months | 3/2/2008 | 2 | high LDC | Calf muscle pain, pins and needles in feet, sore arms, numb fingers, abdominal pain, anxiety. Arthritis pain much worse. | I had mild paresthesias in my left hand before, but only while sleeping, it got much worse, now is in both hands and feet (never had on feet before) during the day. My arm and shoulder hurt pretty bad. Unexplainable stomaches. | F | 44 | 15 days | 1/16/2008 | 2 | high cholestrol/ high triglycerides | The first year it helped with no problems but then gradually I began to feel tired all the time. Then I had flu like semptoms, I could not rest with out the need to cough, almost like a smokers cough. All my muscles began to ache, nightly leg cramps, sever constipation, night sweats and all the while my doctors are not even considering that the meds have anything to do with the way i feel. 2 monthsagomy hart started jumping as if it were trying it get out of my body,I sat for five minutes trying to figure out the name of the fruit that was sitting right in front of me one day, my memory was getting worse. I just overall felt like a young woman of 35 stuck in the body of an elderly person. I had enough, so i dedcided to see if the medication was the problem, been off of crestor for a week and now have another doctor and most of the semptoms have almost gone away, feeling like me again. | they say the side effects from the drugs far out risk the health benifits, i say not | F | 35 | 2 years | 1/8/2008 | 2 | High chloresterol | Flue symptoms. Low grade fever, pain, weakness, and numbness in feet and lower legs up to the knee. General malaise. Symptoms started after about two weeks. | M | 65 | 20 days | 12/22/2007 | 2 | high cholersterol | Memory loss and inability to concentrate. Vision problems with reading, weight gain, muscle soreness, vagueness. I have had sharp pain from my upper outer thigh near the hip and calf muscle soreness also. This is combined with a sometimes excruciating pain between my left shoulder blade and spine that cant even be releived through vigorous massage.I've been on Cresot 20mg after doc took me off lipitor after I complained about above symptoms including loss of libido. My family physician had me on anti depressants for about 12 months before I got onto Spacdoc.com which first alerted me to side effects from taking these drugs to help with cholesterol and high blood pressure. I didnt know they would lead me to think I had depression! I stopped taking these after an in depth conversation with my Doc who can really only advise on what has been thoroughly tested so for that I cant blame him, however I do hold him resposible for NOT alerting me to the side effects.This has all been the result | I am looking for natural alternative to this drug in the hope that my life will return to normal. | M | 48 | 90 days | 11/3/2007 | 2 | high cholestral | Initially, I was on Lipitor for about 3 years - experienced muscle pain/soreness. Changed to Zocor for about 3 years. Same results. Now I am on 10 mg Crestor (has been close to 3 years), and began experiencing tendon problems. Tendonitis in left forearm,both hands, and left foot. No explaination as to pain. Recently begun taking CoQ10 and Gloucosamine/Condroitin to try to improve conditions. Not too much improvement yet. I feel that statin drugs in general affect muscles/tendons in the long run. It may take a while, but they seem to begin chipping away at them and eventually they break them down. I plan on reducing my intake to 5 mg for a few weeks to see if that helps. Before Crestor my cholestral count was 226. Now it is 129. IMPRESSIVE RESULTS BUT MANY HIDDEN, AND SOME NOT SO HIDDEN, SIDE EFFECTS. | M | 62 | 3 years | 9/30/2007 | 2 | high cholesterol, high LDL, low HDL | Severe numbness and tingling in fingers, face, and many other areas on my body...severe muscle weakness in legs. | F | 58 | 4 months | 9/5/2007 | 2 | high cholesterol | extreme pain in my heels and hips that made walking and bending over very painful | I had first attributed the symptoms to some very strenuous physical work that I had been doing. It never dawned on me that it could be a side effect until reading about it. I have quit taking the med 2 days ago and symptoms are already subsiding. I will have to call the doctor to try something different. | F | 41 | 30 days | 8/4/2007 | 2 | elevated cholesterol | Very effective in lowering LDL but after taking 10mg Crestor for 4 months I began to experience various severe muscle pains, especially in right calf and foot. Mild to severe muscle pain between my shoulder blades and spine occassionally wakes me up and is only relieved during medium to heavy resistance training. After one year on this dosage I had begun to experience pain in my sacro-iliac joints and some sharp pain in my left hip. | I have discontinued use. Surely there are effective alternatives to these statins. Using them just substitutes one bad situation for another. Who wants to live like this? At least I could sleep with elevated cholesterol. | M | 57 | 13 days | 7/26/2007 | 2 | high colesterol | I started taking crestor 2/15/07 and even though it has done wonders to bring my colesterol down to an excellent level it has made me loose over 20 pounds in the last 5 months, recently I started to fell very week at times, extremely tired and depressed. My job envolves a lot of physical work, I read somewhere tht maybe it is not a good idea to take this because of this. I have stopped taking for the last 4 days and are slowly starting to feel better, anyone else out there with similar problems? pls email | M | 47 | 5 months | 7/6/2007 | 2 | High cholesterol | Memory loss after being on med for a year. Couldn't think of names, words, everyday conversation became issue. Didn't realize Crestor might effect memory. Was on Crestor 5mg for 1+ year. Had other side effects that came about same time, pain in back, right side, lower legs. Doctor advised to stop taking. It's been 2 months, memory is back to normal. Took about 6 weeks before memory recovered. | Crestor did lower my cholesterol to normal levels. Previously 265 or higher. But no where in literature I'd found did it mention problems with memory (until I checked askapatient). | M | 45 | 14 months | 7/2/2007 | 2 | Foot pain! Seems to move around from toes to ankle to top off the foot to heel. Not sure if it's the Crestor but seems like many others have similar symptoms. Have not checked cholestoral levels yet to see if it's down but even if it is, I'd rather be able to walk! | M | 51 | 4 months | 6/28/2007 | 2 | high cholesterol | Severe fatigue, depression and apathy, memory problems, loss of mental acuity. | I had been on 10 mgs. of Crestor for at least 2 years without problems. My cholesterol levels climbed again and my Dr. raised the Crestor to 20 mgs. Since then I have been so tired I don't want to get out of bed, nearly fall asleep driving to and from work, and am so depressed I have suicidal thoughts. I am thinking about reducing my dosage myself to see if the side effects lesson. My cholesterol is sky high-over 300-but I have no signs of heart disease or blockages and my blood pressure is fine. | F | 53 | 3 years | 6/22/2007 | 2 | high cholesterol level | Stuffiness in ears. Felt like blood would rush to my head when I got up from a sitting position. Had a bad spell of vertigo that lasted the whole day. Also have experienced jittery feeling like on speed. I stopped taking it two nights ago, but still experience a moving sensation like walking on an airplane. Hoping it will end soon. | Cholesterol level dropped tremendously from 281 to 152 and LDL from 196 to 70 after only two months. I was pleased, but realize even on 5mg, the medicine must be too potent to make such a drastic change in so little time. | F | 56 | 3 months | 6/12/2007 |