TRICOR (MICRONIZED) Reviews (FENOFIBRATE)

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TRICOR (MICRONIZED)  (FENOFIBRATE):  Fenofibrate is used along with a proper diet to help lower "bad" cholesterol and fats (such as LDL, triglycerides) and raise "good" cholesterol (HDL) in the blood. It works by increasing the natural substance (enzyme) that breaks down fats in the blood. Fenofibrate belongs to a group of drugs known as "fibrates." Lowering triglycerides in people with very high triglyceride blood levels may decrease the risk of pancreas disease (pancreatitis). However, fenofibrate might not lower your risk of a heart attack or stroke. Talk to your doctor about the risks and benefits of fenofibrate. In addition to eating a proper diet (such as a low-cholesterol/low-fat diet), other lifestyle changes that may help this medication work better include exercising, losing weight if overweight, and stopping smoking. Consult your doctor for more details.   FDA Approval Date: 1999-06-30 (Sources: U.S. Centers for Medicare Services, FDA)

  

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 1  elevated triglycerides pain and stiffness in wrists, hands, elbows, shoulders, lower back, hips, knees, burning sensation on bottoms of feet and tingling in toes, loss of strength, weight gain, elevated creatinine level, anemia triglyceride level dropped to normal level but I was virtually a cripple for two weeks. Pain has subsided since I stopped the Tricor three weeks ago but I still have problems with my hands, shoulders, and elbows and now I have to deal with anemia. The burning on the bottoms of my feet is not as intense nor is the tingling in my toes. M 60 2 years
11/30/2007
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 1  lower cholesterol & triglycerides muscle aches, rhabdomyolysis (muscle breakdown into myoglobulin resulting in orange to red urine that can lead to kidney damage), fatigue, headache, coughing, strange dreams Thought the muscle aches were from playing tennis, which I do at least 3 times a week. Can't take Lipitor or Vytorin either. Think I'll deal with diet & exercise to control cholesterol and triglycerides. The chance of kidney or liver damage is too great on these meds. F 51 17 days
11/21/2007
 1  High triglyderides Headaches, severe pain under left breast, twitching legs, lower and upper back pain I took for approximately 6 weeks, then found this site and quit taking it. Going to dr. tomorrow for blood test results and possibly different drug F 56 6 weeks
11/19/2007
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 1  Lower my cholesterol Severe swelling of my joints, legs/arms/shoulders heavy pain, sometimes unable to walk, use my hands. Went to emergency for shots unalbe to receive when these espisodes happen on the week-ends around eight times. Quite costly to me. First off I was never told of the side effects. Been on this drug for 2 1/2 years, now they think it is arthritis. Still taking lots of tests to determine the damage done. Also was taking 2000 mg of Niacin along with the tricor. Have stopped hoping my pain would end, my life go back to normal. Up to now I have been a very healthy woman, strong able to do lots of things. This all happened in just the last seven months of 2007. It is this website that has enabled me to find out how dangerous this drug is. I am praying this can be reversed. Patients should be told of side effects of drugs by their doctors to whom they rely are helping them. I first went to an orthropaedic doctor who told me he was baffled could not help me because all my ailments did not agree with his training, even though he knew I had been on tricor/niacin. Now another doctor who also knows about my medications tells me tricor takes a long time to work in the body of the side effects, yet will not say this is F 76 2 years
11/8/2007
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 1  tri's in the 500 range Doctor's office only this Friday reccommended that I start taking tricor. Decided to do a bit of research as I'd heard before that there were some side-effects; none of which I'd ever suffered from. Happily, I found this site prior to taking this drug. Thank you one and all for sharing what my physician of some 15 years overlooked to mention. I'll go the diet and and exercise route. M 52 0 days
11/4/2007
 1  high cholesterol frequent muscle spasms, tired all the time, muscle pain, joint pain..mostly in ankles,kneess and wrist. Doctor thinks symptoms are not related to this medicine. But all other testing (cat scan, neurologist testing & blood work (lots of it)) have all come back negative. I have been off tricor now for 3 weeks and have finally just started feeling better (within the past couple days). Altough the muscle twitching has not improved, everything else has. I am trying to be hopeful this will also improve. If anyone has experienced this, please email me. F 33 2 years
11/4/2007
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 4  High triglycerites Constipation M 70 1 years
11/2/2007
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 2  triglycerides 900, LDL way high All of the pains described elsewhere, plus the lack of sound sleep and subsequent irritability. I also had an appendix rupture two months after starting (see another post)Tricor 145. Hmmm. Very effective for me. Triglys went from 900 to 275, LDL went from high unmeasurable to 180. HDL went from 20 to 25. Can't say it is worth the side effects. M 54 2 years
10/30/2007
 1  Substitute for pain-causing Lipitor My left knee seized up, swelled, got hot, causing painful walking by day and inability to lie on my side at night. I have to lie on my back and seek comfort from the pain by moving my legs constantly. The pain runs up from my knee to my hip. It seems that every muscle in my right thigh is involved. I have no pain in any other limb or muscle. Today is day 10 and there is no sign of it to go away. This was not a gout attack; my uric acid level, clinically measured two weeks before the episode in question, was 5.5 mg/dl--that is, righ in the mid range of normal. But the pain in the left knee resembled a very severe gout attack nonetheless. I know what a gout attack is, having had gout for years. I now take Allopurinol for it. Analgesics seem to have little effect in relieving this pain. I've tried Ibuprofen, Acetaminophen and Naproxen. My doctor put me on Tricor in June of 2007 and, because of pain in my left thigh muscles, I had to give it up after a few days. I reported this to the doctor on my next visit and he put me back on pain-causing Lipitor (he had put me on Lipitor at an earlier date and I had to give that up too). I tried Lipitor for a few days second time round and got the same pains in my left thigh muscles. Gave it up. Told the doctor. He prescribed Tricor once more! This time, disaster struck. My advice: as soon as you feel any muscle or joint pain at all, following ingestion of Tricor, give it up and never allow your doctor to put you back on it. M 72 4 days
10/25/2007
 4  high triglycerides minor flu like symptoms, stuffy nose etc: Taking 145mg per day in the evening with food. also taking 10/40mg vitorin in the morning. I took niacin prreviously and it made me feel terrible, when I went back to the doctor he said "niacin is a brutal drug" my triglycerides went from 900 to around 200 I am going to lower my sugar intake and try to get off these drugs. M 59 1.5 years
10/17/2007
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 3  High Triglycerides Joint pain, muscle pain, memory problems, libido problems. Effectively lowered triglyceride levels (1,400 down to 225), but the side effects have been dibilitating. Doctor wants me to stay on it, but I am seriously considering alternatives. M 20 2 years
10/17/2007
 1  high trigs Pain legs, chest, back, weakened eyesight, cataracts, hernia, diabetes Just read an advertisement put out by Tricor where it listed side effects. Seeing as I had most of the side effects I went off the medicine and am feeling and seeing a lot better now. But while being on Tricor I became a diabetic which is odd as I do not do sugar. It will be interesting to see if the sugar numbers go down. I gave the Advertisement to my Dr. who was astounded at the report! F 60 2 years
10/17/2007
 1  High Triglycerides, Low HDL Significant Knee Pain As normal, Dr. says not the problem .... am now taking vitamin and herb remedy M 50 1 months
10/11/2007
 1  high tricgliceroides 1. racing thoughts, 90 per cent about sex, but this happens with the majority of these types of pills, so I don't know which one will help. Thoughts led to increase of sex (masturbation) which at 63 led to chest pain, the opposite of what these pills are supposed to do. 2. This pill reduced the effects of my lithium in the liver, which as a manic-depressive made me more manic. Literature confirmms this pill affects the liver. 3. Muscle in my right calf lost 50 % strength in the 5 weeks I've been taking the medicine. Literature confirms muscle loss is a side effect of this pill. M 63 35 days
10/11/2007
 1  high triglycerides Severe muscle pain, spasms from my neck to my toes; also severe cramping of stomach; felt jittery; unable to rest or relax; first pill just felt flu like; then by 3rd pill; severe reaction. I will not take another! I still have pain several days later after stopping the med and am hoping the muscle cramping/weakness will improve. F 46 3 days
10/3/2007
 1  To lower Triglycerides Sleeping non stop and fever. Doctor combined this drug with Vytorin for lowering Choleterol, and gave me samples for 6 weeks. Within two weeks I began being very sleepy and started running a temp. I'm supposed to have an Angiogram on Monday but it's iffy since I'm running the temp, 101.6. Can't find any other reason for it so I'm discontinuing both drugs! Egad! F 68 2 weeks
9/22/2007
 1  Lower cholesterol-mother heart prob Heaviness & swelling in legs. Pain in knees and lower back. Starting to experience some vertigo type feelings and blurred vision off and on. Also elevated liver enzymes. My doctor never once mentioned side effects even after I complained about the back, knees,& leg pain. Also, when my liver enzyme test came back elevated - only mentioned that I need to lose weight that I could be developing a "fatty liver". I just started researching today and you can be sure that I will stop taking the Tricor - my total chol was only 220 when I started taking. I will try harder with diet and exercise and natural alternatives. In reading about Tricor, I also saw that you should not take if you have hypothyroidism which I am being treated for (another thing my doctor didn't say anything about.) I think that I will also be shopping for a new doctor. F 50 2 years
9/22/2007
 2  high triglicerides constipation, bloating, severe back pain I started taking Cimbalta at the same time, which I should have spaced out for my fibromyalgia. The Cimbalta is supposed to be for muscle pain/aches, but it's not doing anything I believe because of the Tricor F 49
9/20/2007
 1  high triglycerides as many others have stated this drug has some nasty side effects, and I just realized that after many trips to other specialists that my problems are probably related to tricor use. Headaches almost daily, fatigue, muscle weakness, muscle twitching, nausea have all been a part of the last 2 months. I started tricor in late April and started noticing the more severe effects in late July. Have noticed that for some people symptoms have improved quickly after stopping and have lasted much longer for others. I was taking 145mg. day and stopped taking as of today. My tri's were at 190 in late August and the side effects seem to be far outweighing the benefits. Would like to hear about symptom recovery times after stopping from others. M 44 4 months
9/20/2007
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 1  Hi Triglycerides On the first day, about 4 hours after taking one pill, I could hardly walk due to hip, knee, and ankle pain. Took one on the second day and had the same results. I have stopped taking it and feel great. I will not take it again. I will adjust my diet and exercise more to try to treat the high Triglycerides. M 55 2 days
9/19/2007

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