TRICOR (MICRONIZED) Reviews (FENOFIBRATE)Average Rating: 1.9 (325 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare TRICOR (MICRONIZED) with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR TRICOR (MICRONI | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | elevated triglycerides and choleser | muscle weakness and pain, joint pain especially knees and hands. Pain in left arm when lifting any object. Mood disorder, sleep disturbances. Nausea and vertigo | I am off the drug and see some improvement | F | 63 | 4 days | 3/23/2007 | 1 | High Cholesterol | swelling of feet and ankles, back pain, right shoulder pain, muscle weakness in arms and legs, bloating and stomach pain, constipation, weight gain | I have taken Tricor 48mg for over a year and it did lower my cholesterol to a very safe level but so did the other cholesterol medications and I have tried all of them. They all have about the same side effects and make you feel like your way older than you actually are. Lower back pain that is so bad you can hardly stand it and also the ankle and feet swelling that makes it difficult to walk. I have also gained weight with the cholesterol medications and also bloating and stomach pain. I am stopping all cholesterol meds and have started on Fish oil and Flax seed oil and Bayer Heart Advantage. I know this may be a little more expensive but I am fed up with all these meds that make you feel like hell. I have always been a very active person and since I have been taking the doctor recommended drugs my activity level has dropped to nothing. Hopefully I will get back on my feet and start enjoying my retirement without the FDA's and doctors recommended medications. | M | 63 | 12 days | 5/4/2009 | 3 | Elev'd Chole/Trigl's 46 | Pain in both knees, muscle pain in forearms, general "tired" feeling, awoke dizzy three days in a row. | Side effects came on very slowly,[ taken for approx six months ] which did not give me cause for alarm until the dizziness came on. At that time I began looking for others taking TRICOR, and what they may have to say. TRICOR was succesful in getting my high readings down, however, did not wish to continue feeling bad. Stopped the TRICOR and started feeling better within three days. Just completed a lab report, all the readings are w/n the ref limits. Along with beginning TRICOR, I also started watching the sugars in what I was eating. I also began to ride a bike for approx 30-45 min daily, have lost approx 30 lbs and feel great. Thanks for this sight and the comments of others. | M | 62 | 6 months | 10/3/2008 | 3 | Triglcerides | Muscle rigidity | At 145mg I had muscle rigidity. Cut the dose in 1/2 and side effects seemed to go away. | 62 | 3 years 75mg | 6/4/2018 | 1 | hypertriglyceridemia | Let me start by saying that before I took the TriCor, I was a very healthy and active individual, able to do about anything physically I wanted with a demanding job in a physician's office. After, I felt I had aged 100 years. My symptoms began shortly after taking the medication with aching in the joints. This was tolerable and truthfully, I thought it was just a sign of aging. However, these mild symptoms rapidly progressed to an unbearable pain in my legs so severe I could not walk at all. Despite reporting these symptoms to my physician, her answer was to run tests. All told, several visits to the emergency room, MRI, Doppler, CT scans, numerous blood studies later, the pain was more severe than ever. | On one of numberous trips to my physician, the light went on for her. She said to stop the Tricor, which I did immediately and though the pain stopped, I was left with residual weakness in my lower extremities that is with me to this day. I am happy for those for whom the drug works. However, on reading this board, it appears that the bad far outweighs the good. I don't believe at all, as one poster said, that these symptoms are a natural aging process. When one becomes immediately disabled simply by taking a medication, there is not one thing natural about that. It should be removed from the market, or, at the very least, dispensed with caution and strong warnings about its harmful side effects. | F | 62 | 4 months 145 1X day | 9/24/2010 | 1 | High triglycerides | I originally posted on here several years ago regarding my terrible experience with this drug. Since then, the medical community has started to realize how devastating statin drugs can be to some people. In my case, this drug permanently disabled my ability to walk any appreciable distance and it did this in a very short time period. Unfortunately, by the time my physician made the connection, the damage had been done. My Achilles tendons became so degenerated that I had to have both of them resected and grafts put in. For those of you experiencing severe muscle aches and pain in your extremities, I urge you to stop the medication IMMEDIATELY and see your physician and demand that he pay attention to your concerns. Mine did not until it was too late. The condition is known as statin myopathy. Please take the time to research this if you are having problems as I describe. For those with no side effects, you are fortunate. However, in my case, I was perfectly healthy and active and i | F | 62 | 4 months 145 mg 1X day | 4/21/2011 | 1 | Tricor | It Gives You So Much Pain In Your Legs And Lower Back You Can Barely Walk. | I Would Not Advise ANYONE To Take This Drug. Unless You Want To End Up With Kidney Failure Of Loss Of Your Leg Muscles. I Took The Med' For 4 Years And Now Off 3 Months And Still Have Problems With My Back And Walking Around. | F | 62 | 4 years | 5/27/2009 | 1 | High Triglycerides | Serious knee injury due to weak muscles. Hand pain and joint pain in hands so badly that I can't hold a cup of coffee in the morning. | Found this site when looking for clues and symptoms of TriCor. I am in so much pain and it keeps getting worse. I intend to stop taking it immediately. | F | 62 | 1 years | 7/16/2007 | 4 | high triglycerides | within one day of starting tricor had constipation | side effects were tolerable because of reduction of triglycerides and colesterol. Muscle and back pain but i don't think it is from the tricor | M | 61 | 4 months | 3/6/2007 | 3 | High Triglycerides | I've taken this drug for 10 years, along with Niaspan. It worked great. Triglyceride numbers were way down! Within the last 6 months I have developed fatigue, muscle aches and horrible nausea and indigestion. My doctor, after trying everything, wondered aloud whether it could be the Tricor or maybe the Niaspan. After enduring an upper GI endoscopy (which I had to pay for) and finding nothing...I decided to stop taking both drugs. Within 3 days I was feeling like the old me - and I could eat again! Last nite I took a tricor just to see...the first 8 hours were fine, then the nausea and gas returned. I'm off of this stuff. I'm now looking for other options. Thank you for this website. | It's hard to rate a drug that actually worked but made me sick! | F | 61 | 10 years | 1/29/2009 | 1 | cholesterol | after only 8 doses, I thought I was O.K. (having already experienced severe muscle pain w/Lipitor and bone pain with Zetia). As is my habit, I will park my car and walk to the 1st store I want to go to then make my way back (my version of extra exercise). Did fine until I started making my way back, then all of a sudden my legs felt like wet noodles. Could barely make it back to my car. Went off drug immediately and the wet noodles went away. However, I still suffer some residual muscle pain in upper arms and back from the Lipitor and bone pain between knees and feet from the Zetia. | I have always been relatively healthy and not on medications for extended periods of time until I developed Diabetes Type 2 about 5 years ago. Since then, I have experienced at least 6 different episodes where medicine that seemed to be working for me was pulled by FDA b/c it was killing people or having to get off them b/c of terrible side effects. Thought FDA was suppose to check this stuff out BEFORE these things were put on the market! Also, I was started out on the 145 mg dosage - did not know there was a lower one. Maybe I should have been started on that first???? | F | 61 | 8 days | 5/9/2008 | 1 | Hi Triglicrides | Had SEVERE knee problems to which I paid over $1200 and 3 Dr's later found out that my problem was "not" my knee as one knee Dr said knee was bad. Also had SEVERE pain in chest and after pain for 2 weeks thought it might be heart related and Dr said no and sent me home. After my chest quit hurting the pain moved into my back and was so severe I could not raise my arm or even comb my hair without terrible pain. Finally after 3 months and no results as to "why" this was happening I decided to do my own checking as to my medication that Dr had given me concerning Triglicrides and to my horror I found that many mnay people experienced that same problems. I IMMEDIATELY stopped taking the Tricor medication and now 4 days later I am almost 90% back to normal. MY DR NEVER MENTIONED THE FACT THAT THERE MIGHT BE PROBLEMS WITH THIS MEDICATION and Thank God for the Internet and it's solving so many questions! I have never hurt so bad and suffered so bad and never ever would hav | M | 61 | 4 months | 2/19/2007 | 1 | "Severe" Pain in Joints, Chest, Back. Pain so bad kept me awake at night, could not hardly drive due to back pain. | I am the one that comitted about severe knee pain and so bad I went to 3 different knee Drs and to make matters worse they all had different opinions. The pain went from ankle to knee and so bad I could hardly walk without crutches. I have taken medication for over 5 months as I would have never realized it was so bad until I checked. Follow up to last message is that it has been almost 9 days since I COMPLETELY STOPPED taking Tricore and slowly slowly the pain is almost gone. I had considered cancer as the pain was so severe and only after wondering why pain had moved from front of chect to severe back pain did I considered it "might" be something other than 'artharitus?' as my Dr never did figure out what was causing it and wanted to give me a heart stress test! I have learned that in order to lower triglirides that it is up to me so I have purchased excerise equipment and will faithfully watch my diet. I will post blood test results in a few weeks. I CANNOT BELIEVE HOW MU | M | 61 | 5 months | 2/25/2007 | 1 | High Triglicerides | Swollen hands and knuckles Roving joint pain in wrists shoulders and hands extream pain.fatigue. | Will someone please post how to start a class action against these S.O.B.s There has to be enough of us who are hurting to get one going. They make [Abbott] 1 Billion a year on just this med. Thank heavens for this site,Ive been to three differnt Dr.and found out myself whats wrong. | M | 61 | 6 months | 7/29/2009 | 1 | High Triglycerides | I started taking TRICOR (145 mg) every morning about a year ago. I was okay at first and could continue my two mile a day walk carrying two ten pounds weights. I would go to my office first, which was on the second floor of our building then do my walk. One day after my walk I started walking up to the second floor and my left knee went out. It felt like someone stabbed me with an ice pick. A week later my left hip did the same thing, then my left shoulder. I had to give up all exercise and could not sleep at night because of joint pain. I asked my Dr. if it could be the TRICOR having read this forum. He said no way and, that it was probably due to my weight. I’m 6’5” and weigh 245. I did not like his answer and went to see a sports medicine Dr. He took x-rays of my knees and said they looked to be in great shape with no damage. I also had an MRI of my shoulder and ditto. I then bought a new $3,000 mattress thinking maybe it was our bed. All along, I keep taking TRI | I went back to my doctor two or three more times and he still said it could not possibly be the TRICOR. I finally stopped taking it about a week ago and now I can at least walk around a flat block at a slow pace with minimal pain. My joint pains seems to be slowly going away, but I fear I have done some permanent damage as my back hurts more than ever. I’m sixty-one years old and TRICOR made me feel like I’m ninety-one. I hate my Dr. for doing this to me and will not go back. In my opinion TRICOR can cause very serious problems. The manufacturer says to see your doctor if you have serious side effects. My Dr. turned a deaf ear on my concerns. For some, I’m sure it works. For me it was debilitating and I wish I had taken myself of it sooner.I think doctors are afraid to say anything against this medicine and that to me is a crime! | M | 61 | 1 years | 6/19/2009 | 4 | high LDL | runny nose | M | 60 | 5 months | 9/30/2004 | 3 | Lower cholestrol & triglycerides | Muscle pain in legs. Increase in existing knee joint pain. Seem to have difficulty in concentrating | Within days after going off of Tricor, muscle pain went away. Knee joint pain decreased to level prior to taking Tricor.. | F | 60 | 4 months | 4/26/2004 | 1 | High Cholesterol | Knee pain and leg weakness; sleep disturbance; vivid dreams every night with very early awakening. In three months on Tricor (145 mg) I have gone from easy ambulation to being a near-invalid, seldom leaving home due to knee pain and leg weakness. Have also experienced unexplained dizziness and constipation. Have leg and foor spasms that also awaken me. | My doctor gave me samples for 3 months. This week he called in a prescription. Pharmacist caught a drug interaction with Lipitor I was taking. Doctor never mentioned potential problem. | M | 60 | 3 months | 5/27/2006 | 1 | Elavated Triglycerides | Dabilitating fatigue, Extreme Pain in back, Legs & Hips and Tail Bone, anxiety, Depression, Very Bad Stomach pain! | I am setting here writing this at 2:00 A.M. having severe stomach pain and after reading Post on this site I am really ticked off at my Drs. I have a severe heart condition with two triple by passes. The first was 1989 the second 2006 Family history of High Cholesterol & Triglycerides. Started having pain in legs back and hips shortly after starting Tricor. I complained to the Dr. and was told it was not the Zocor or Tricor! The pain in my legs became so bad they operated on my back. This did nothing! They said I needed to see a "pain" Dr. After a short period of time and a spinal block he could not help much. I was getting weaker and pain was unbearable. So he said I needed a Morphine Pump. That was four years ago. I had to have the pump replaced in 12/06 due to low battery (another operation)I take 20mg of Morphine a day and still suffer pain in Legs, Hips and Back.So I have taken Tricor for at least 6 years now and have had 3 operations due to the effects of this medi | M | 60 | 6 years | 1/24/2007 | 1 | Triglycerides | I am the same person who wrote the post below this one. I forgot to mention that I acn no longer get around and have to use a Power Chair for mobility. | M | 60 | 6 years | 1/24/2007 |