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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR TRICOR (MICRONI | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 5 | High Triglycerides & Cholesterol | None. Some cramps and spasms, but I attribute them to my work out routine and dehydration. They are infrequent, and no more prevalent than before I started taking the medicine. I've noticed vitreous floaters lately, but I don't think I can peg that on the medicine. | Combined with a low fat diet and exercise three times a week, this drug is incredible. 3/9/05 TC = 226, HDL = 33 and TG = 1257. As of 5/9/05, TC = 142, HDL = 39 and TG = 133. The best I did without medication was TC = 179, HDL = 35 and TG = 383. I've tried Lipitor, Gemfibrizol and Niaspan, but Tricor is the only one that put a dent in my numbers. Also, Niaspan gave me mild gastritis and Lipitor gave me numbness in my chin. I am VERY happy with the results of Tricor. | M | 36 | 6 weeks | 5/10/2005 | 1 | High Triglycerides | I had quite a few side effects from this medication. I know they were caused by the medicine because I took myself off of it and within 72 hours most of the side effects either were gone or were improved. The main problems follow in no particular order: 1. Sun sensitivity which caused me to get sunburns on cloudy days -- being of Mediteranean ancestry, I've never burned before even in the mid-summer sun. 2. I gained 25 pounds in 5 months without changing my diet or my daily workout at the gym (all of it around my mid-section). 3. Extreme pain in my shoulders to the point where I could not lift my arm over my head without severe pain. 4. I constantly felt bloated, as though I had over-eatern. 5. Fatigue, both mental and physical. This started within a few days of being on the drug. 6. After a couple of weeks, I began having an inability to stay asleep despite the fatigue -- I would sleep for about 40 minutes, then wake up for 5 to 10 minutes before falling asleep again and repea | I started with triglycerides that were nearly 200 points too high. The medicine did lower the triglycerides by about 100 points in the 5 months I was on it, but the number was still over 100 points too high. I took myself off of the medicine 4 weeks ago and now most of the side effects are gone. The feelings of bloating and fullness went away after about 48 hours and the inability to lift my arm above my head went away in 72 hours. The sun sensitivity ended in around 72 hours as well. I have lost 12 pounds in the 4 weeks I’ve been off of the medicine, again without changing my diet or my workout routine. The headache pattern is back to normal now. I am able to stay asleep at night, though I am still feeling fatigued. My shoulder continues to have general achiness and pain, but full range of motion has returned and I can lift weights or my children without pain from these activities. The pain is dull and not constant, centered in my shoulder underneath my shoulder blade a | M | 36 | 5 months | 12/30/2007 | 1 | High Triglycerides | I have been taking Tricor 145 for about 18 months. Over the past year or so I have been waking up each morning the a very stiff and sore back. I asked my doctor about it and he does not think that the Tricor could be causing the problem. He thinks that I am starting to have symptoms of arthritis. Well the last week while on a trip for work, I didn't plan right and ran out of Tricor, and so I did not take it for 3 days while I will still on my trip. I have not refilled the prescription yet and I have now been off it for 10 days. I have noticed it that since not taking it every night that my back pain has stopped, and some of the other muscle and joint pains that I have been having also have seemed to stop or lessen. I will not go back to tricor. I will try and lower my triglycerides with by diet and excerise. | M | 36 | 18 months | 7/16/2009 | 5 | high tryglycerides and high cholest | slurred speech also taking gemfibrozil | My tryglycerides went from 1140 to 74 in less than five weeks I also exercised an average of 40 minutes per day and completely changed my diet no sodas no red meat and 1800 calories a day I hope this note will help others. Doctor cut dosage from 160 to 80 today | M | 37 | 5 weeks | 9/13/2004 | 5 | high triglyceride level | none | F | 37 | 2 years | 2/27/2004 | 5 | Elevated Triglycerides | No negative side effects. Pyschologically, it's been nice since I don't worry as much about my high triglyceride levels. | This is a six month follow-up to my earlier post after my test at 6-weeks. Still eating healthy and exercising three times a week, with light daily exercise. Readings as of 11/09/05: TC = 171, TG = 176, Direct LDL = 98, HDL = 38. Not as good as my first test results, but my appetite has increased due to gaining 5-7 pounds from working out; I am still very careful about what I eat, but not quite as discriminating due to the increase in appetite. I intentionally ate a fair amount of junk the day before the test, right up until I began fasting, to see how the drug worked under less than ideal dietary conditions. I think if I was as careful as with my first test, my numbers would have been as good. I remain very happy with Tricor | M | 37 | 7 months | 11/10/2005 | 5 | Familial hypertriglyceridemia | None. | One year follow-up; still eating healthy and exercising three to four times a week. Readings as of 03/30/06: TC = 158, TG = 148, Direct LDL = 83, HDL = 45. I am very happy with Tricor. | M | 37 | 1 years | 4/3/2006 | 4 | High Tri, LDL, | No major side effects. Came off of Zocor and had severe fatigue and leg cramps to name a few. Gave tricor a shot and cut all of my numbers in half. Also went on South Beach Diet and lost 25 lbs in 4 weeks. Not sure if it was the tricor or the diet and/or a combo of the both of them. | try to change your diet first and don't take with ANY statins as it will kill you - seriously. As with almost all of these drugs, we are all just a bunch of lab monkey's - as long as the lawyers don't start a lawsuit the doctors and the pharm reps willl keep on pushing stuff. | M | 37 | 4 months | 7/18/2005 | 3 | High triglicerides | I did have some periods of the vivid dreams, and some insomnia. however I am a shift worker and I don't have normal sleep paterns anyways. | After 6 weeks on the med . my triglygerides are down. But DR is going to increase the dosage. And he is adding a prescription for Crestor. Note: it took me lots of serching to find any web-info on this Med. Because here in Canada it is sold under the name "lipidil". | M | 37 | 6 weeks | 10/5/2006 | 3 | elevated triglycerides | I have been taking tricor for about two weeks now. my triglycerides are about 300. My doctor warned me about the muscle pain, but so far the only thing I've experience is the thrist, headaches,loss of apetite, nausea and some weakness in the hands. the migranes I already had, but now they are more frequent, the weakness and nausea are not significant enough to stop taking the medication and the loss of apetite has accually help me stay on track with my healthy eating. I'm to return to my doctor in about 2 months for labs and follow up. I will write again if anything changes. | F | 37 | 14 days | 4/16/2007 | 3 | High Cholesterol and Triglycerides | Have not experienced anything yet. When and what should I be expecting | I am on 60 mg Prozac a day and just started Tricor, 48 milligrams a day. The Prozac has made me more and more tired every week. Will this have a reaction with the Tricor? My tris were 1200 and I reduced to 600 by diet. Cholesterol was over 500 now around 300, so the Dr put me on Tricor....and I am just waiting for side effects. Is anyone else on this with Prozac? I am worried about the tiredness, as I just woke up from about 15 hrs sleeping off an on. | M | 37 | 5 days | 8/11/2007 | 3 | Elevated TG | No side effects | Somewhat satisfied since it didn't lower my TG as I hoped it would. No side effects on 48mg but my doctor raised the dosage to 145mg a week ago. I'll see what happens and keep you updated. | M | 37 | 3 months | 4/23/2008 | 2 | cholestrol (TC and LDL) | severe muscle pain/constant fatigue after taking the medicine (tricor 145 mg) for cholestrol (TC 235, LDL 153). Also feeling of bloatness in stomach area even without eating. Going for my blood tests to test for liver activity next week. Had similar problems with crestor when first started , turned out high liver activity (very high AST levels) were damaging so stopped that one. Let us see what comes out of this one | M | 37 | 2 months | 3/2/2008 | 2 | chol and tri | I am starting to see some side effects I think. When I wake in the am or after a nap/sleep, my body will not move. I can drift right back into a sleep. It feels almost surreal. Like one of these days I will not be able to push myself to actually get up. Coma like I guess. I am unsure if this is magnified by the Prozac or not. So far I think that it has only been about 3 weeks that I have been on it. Always have soreness in the back of the neck. But, the worst is trying to get up. One day I slept 12 hrs..was up an hr..felt sleepy and slept for the next 6. Seems to be alot of this. Makes me wonder if this is buiding up in my system and killing nerves or something. | advice? I am only 37...I am too young to want to sleep for weeks. | M | 37 | 20 days | 8/26/2007 | 1 | high triglycerides | chest pain, numb legs, numb spots in parts of my back. headache, felt flu like, insomnia, weight gain. visual anomalies. rash, break outs in skin, gerd was aggravated always thirsty, pain in left leg. | it may work for some but if you take it and start to feel bad just stop. don't continue like i did. i think i have an on going issue with my left leg and part of my back now. whatever parts of my body were numb like (or felt like they were in water) are now dead or in pain. left leg isn't doing very well i will wait and see if it improves. very day i stopped taking it i felt like conquering the world! | F | 37 | 9 months | 4/11/2007 | 1 | High Triglycerides (768) | About 30 days into the regimen Tricor 145Mg I started experiencing, what I thought was lower back (coccyx region) pain. At first I associated it with overextending myself with exercise or lifting even though I couldn't recall doing anything of the sort. Within 5 days of steadily increasing arthritic type pain in lower back and hip joints I got to the point that I (almost) couldn't walk. Within 3 days of stopping the medication I was 80% better. | It has been 4 months since stopping the Tricor and I refused to TRY anything else. I still have left hip joint pain 24 x 7 though it is not bad enough to keep me from activities. WHEN WILL THIS PAIN GO AWAY???? | M | 37 | 30 days | 9/7/2006 | 5 | High triglycerides | none | Triglycerides were above 500, but after taking tricor, now around 150. No side effects at all. | M | 38 | 1 years | 11/5/2004 | 5 | Familial Hypertriglyceridemia | No side effects to speak of. | After two years on Tricor, my results continue to be fantastic. My triglcerides have stayed consistently under 180 the entire time, with considerable improvement in my total cholesterol (150-160 range) and HDL (44-46 range). Sorry to all those who've experienced problems. With a proper diet and sufficient exercise, this medicine has been nothing short of a miracle for me. | M | 38 | 23 months | 3/30/2007 | 2 | fam hypertriglyeridemia/hi cholestr | severe pain like a truck hit me at full speed. Every muscle hurt, including my legs and feet which are the worst. Headaches, insomnia, itching, and tired. Can I work through the pain? If dose is dropped (I'm taking 145mg Tricor) | The pain at first I ignored as my fybromyalgia but it got so intense I thought I'd be in a will chair by the end of the day. Really want some medication that helps and that works with less side effects! Lopid is not helping enough. Is there anything safer out there that works well to bring down triglyerides and cholesterol by pharmancies and/or natural means you see of websites that aren't approved by the FDA? Help!! | F | 38 | 3 days | 4/18/2005 | 2 | High Triglycerides | None at first and my numbers went from 257 to 82 in about 6 months. HDL from 43 to 59 and LDL 188 to 120. Total is at 195. I attribute most of this to the South Beach Diet and not so much the Tricor. Over the past 30 days however, I have been experiencing pain in my right knee and the occasional vertigo. Fatigue seems to be creeping back up as it did when I took zocor, but not to that degree. My AST also went up from 30 to 99 which is a bad thing. I attribute this to the tricor but waiting for the results from my sonogram to verfify. | I think there are way too many uncertainties around tricor and the statins that will produce very serious longterm effects. I think I would try a diet approach to any problems before I began taking any of these meds until they get the bugs out. | M | 38 | 6 months | 10/24/2005 |