CRESTOR Reviews (ROSUVASTATIN)Average Rating: 1.7 (1262 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare CRESTOR with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR CRESTOR | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | High level cholestorol | Pains all over body, fatigue, extreme mood changes, feeling of weakness and inability to function, anxiety | Took a week for symptoms to show, then pains and confusion hit. I suffer from Bipolar disorder, and after years of being fairly stable, I found that this drug sent me in to an emotional spin. I was anxious, angry, upset to the point of crying constantly and felt like a complete failure because my body just would not work and would not stop hurting. Stop using this drug straight away and talk to your doctor if you feel like this. There must be other drugs that the body can tolerate. | F | 39 | 9 days 1X day | 10/17/2010 | 1 | To lower cholesterol and raise | Upper back pain at top of my spine just below the neck. Also numbness in penis and difficulty in erections. | M | 51 | 5 months 2.5 mg 1X day | 10/14/2010 | 5 | High cholesterol | Had ache and pains all over. | Family physician prescribe me Crestor and after aches and pain, he told me to stop taking it. But my cholesterol was still high. Finally my heart doctor sent me to another physican that specialized in people have trouble with Crestor. This new doctor said people who have a reaction to Crestor have been found to have a very low vitamin D deficiency. He did lab work and found that my Vitamin D was very low. He prescribe me Vitamin D through my pharmacy and had me on it for a month, then started me on the Crestor again. And it works. I'm still taken Vitamin D and Crestor pain free. No more pain and my cholesterol is in the normal range. | M | 62 | 1 months 40 MG 1X day | 10/12/2010 | 4 | High Cholesterol | None | Lowered my cholesterol by 50%. Triglyicerides were 326 in the year 2005. Are now 114. Diet and exercise were also probably a factor. | M | 38 | 4 years 10 mg 1X day | 10/12/2010 | 1 | crestor | muscle aches, pain in legs, cramping in calves of legs at night, severe pain in hips and shoulders, weight gain, stomach problems, fatigue, chest pain, trouble sleeping... | I took Lipitor & had bad results with liver emzyme levels, and my Dr. switch me to Crestor. I have had symptoms or side effects for a long time, and attributed them to gettig older or arthritis. I have been having severe hip pain for the last 6 months. It takes me hours to get going in the am. I wake up tired everyday. I recently went on a cruise and skipped my crestor pill for a few days and noticed that I felt better. I thought it might just be the warm tropic air. Since I've returned home I contnued not taking Crestor. It has been 2 full weeks and I am feeling the best I have felt in months. I have an appt. with my Dr. in 1 week, and I am telling her I think I'm discontinuing taking it forever. I am also on synthyroid, and wonder if I ever should have been prescribled this medication. I happened on this site by accident and can't believe that so many people have the same symptoms that I have been experincing. My main regret is that I didn't check out the side effects on statin drugs before. | F | 64 | 3 years 10 mg 1X day | 10/12/2010 | 1 | High Chloresterol | Disturbing sleep patterns. Very vivid dreams. Scarey. Leg cramps. Especially when sleeping. Also cramps in my stomach when I bend over even trying to tie my shoes. Bad joint pain in my right hip. I can't walk up steps except by left leg and then right on same step. | I tired taking Liptor and had the bad dreams. My chloresterol is very high in spite of cutting down on high chlor foods, taking fish oil and eating a ton of oats. My family history is bad, so the doctor said that I really needed to take something. Since the Liptor caused the bad dreams, she suggested Crestor. This is worse !!!!! I'd rather live 10 years pain free and rested than 20 years like this. | F | 57 | 10 days 1X day | 10/11/2010 | 1 | high cholesterol | trouble sleeping, waking up, bad dreams, trouble remembering things I should know immediately. | will continue to do fish oil, gugo lipo, diet and exercise. Do not need to be a part of the over medicating of America. | F | 58 | 28 days 5 mg 1X day | 10/10/2010 | 1 | high cholesterol | severe pain in heart/chest/ back /and left arm | do not take this drug caused me extreme pain I cannot function at all I am hoping the symptoms go away or I do not know how I will go on with all this pain | F | 54 | 30 days 10mg 1X day | 10/8/2010 | 1 | High cholesterol | constent pain arms shoulder, sweats, cannot sleep day or night, pain in calves muscle, nightmares,cannot think clearly. | I have been off crestor one month not geting any better,pain and not sleeping seems to be killing me. Dr drew blood to see if I have Rhabdomyolysis. Question does anyone know how long this will go on.This drug is poison please do not take. I REALLY THINK IT HAS ME. | M | 58 | 2 months 20 mg 1X day | 10/7/2010 | 3 | high cholesterol | none | M | 49 | 30 days 20 1X day | 10/6/2010 | 3 | High Cholesterol | Painful erections lead to loss of interest in sex, headaches, migrains, back neck and head hurt a lot sometimes. Memory loss. Talking too much in real life, or typing too much on the Internet. Not able to focus or concentrate at times. Dizzy, confused, feel like throwng up at times, nightmares, sounds, music, tv shows, get on my nerves sometimes and I try to communicate but get cut off and forget what I was talking about. Used to be brilliant with computers in programming and fixing them. Now I can barely function problerly. If I talk to someone like that they walk away instead of helping me. Some even make fun of me nd mock me even my brothers and some friends. Some friends and family members avoid me and refuse to return email or phone calls and I do not know why. | Costs too much, I am on medicare and the coverage gap or doughnut hole forces me to pay as much as $800+ a month on medicine and disability does not pay me enough to afford that. So sometimes I have good hearted doctors give me samples until the doughtnut hole resets. Without this medicine I may die, but not like anyone cares about mentally ill people on disability whe medicine costs too much, and we either get samples from other doctors, charge it to credit cards, or go without them for a while. If it keeps up I will lose my house and my wife, son, and brother-in-law will suffer and forced to live in an apartment or trailer or cheaper house. I got many persciprtion assitance discount cards that are supposed to help. But pharmacists claim they are no good and refuse to accept or use them. | M | 42 | 6 months 20 MG 1X day | 10/4/2010 | 2 | sore throat, deep muscle pains, swollen ankles, knees | starting taking Crestor in July 20 mg, thngs were great feeling wonderful, increased energy, 2 weeks ago, in the evening started getting deep knee, ankle, hip pain, plus very hot joint pain, this got worse called family doctor, stopped medicine, but these effects are still very strong will see doctor this week | F | 49 | 3 months 20mg 1X day | 10/3/2010 | 2 | high cholestoral | severe headaches, fatigue , muscle soreness in neck, nausea | I thought I had the flu but it all started a few days after starting this medication. Tired all the time, severe migraines every day since taking this medication. Not worth it. | F | 53 | 8 weeks 10 mg 1X day | 10/1/2010 | 1 | high cholesterol | started with severe muscle cramps in calves and feet. Developed brain fog, back pain and muscle aches. Became so fatigued I could hardly get out of bed and felt faint. Had chills as though I had the flu. | When I confronted my doctor with my litany of ills and asked if she would report my symptoms to the FDA her response was," they already know it." If they already know it, why is this drug still being given out like candy when it's efficacy is questionable and its side effects are known to cause misery and even death. | F | 63 | 6 months 5mg 1X day | 9/30/2010 | 1 | High Cholesterol | Extreme muscle pain in back | I will never take this again. I tried it once before and did not associate the back pain with this until I tried it again. I had high triglycerides (over 300) and started eating salads and drinking pomegranate juice. I dropped to 150. Wow! My cholesterol did drop 40 points with this and diet change | F | 57 | 2 weeks 20 1X day | 9/24/2010 | 4 | High Cholesterol | some shoulder pain at times but nothing much more than that | I had a 5 way by pass 14 years ago due to hereditary heart conditions and have been on statin drugs off and on since 1994. Crestor has dropped my cholesterol levels from 466 to 164. The other statin drugs I couldn't tolerate. | M | 50 | 3 years 40 mg 1X day | 9/23/2010 | 2 | High Cholestrol | Muscle pain and weakness, particularly in me feet and legs. | I took this med for several months, being one that dosen't go to the doctor unless I absolutly have to and one that dosen't like taking meds. I decided on my own not to get more Crestor, since my doctor didn't order or feel the need to order follow up blood work for liver and kidney funtion. Well I had to go to the doctor for another issue, and decided to get on Crestor again (my doctor gives it free). Today my friend wanted me to look up Lisinopril for her and Crestor popped up so I decided to check it out. WOW...THANK GOODNESS...Now I know why my feet hurt and all the other things I felt that I didn't associate with this drug. I could not walk without pain, it was miserable. It's funny because I told my son a couple of days ago that we could start walking now that my feet and such quit hurting and, what did I do...took Crestor...(only once now) THANK GOODNESS FOR THIS SITE. Good luck to all. | F | 47 | 10mg 1X day | 9/22/2010 | 1 | Elevated Lipids | Progressively elevated CK- last test was 722 U/L- mildly elevated Urea 8.6 mmol/l & ALT 48 u/l | Given my significantly raised CK after taking Crestor for four months my doctor advised me to stop taking it. Ten days later I am experiencing joint / shoulder & arm pain and over body skin hypersensitvity. My gastroenterologist took me off Lipitor and put me on Crestor because he said it was a more effective drug - though it did reduce my HDL/ LDL levels the side effects / risks far outweigh the benefits and I am never going back on statins preferring diet & exercise in an effort to maintain a healthy lifestyle | M | 64 | 4 months 20MG 1X day | 9/19/2010 | 4 | Lowered LDL from 134 to 71 | Joint pain in hands and feet, some lower back pain, don't seem to have muscle pain as described by others. | Lowered overall cholesterol 230 to 160 | M | 59 | 3 months 10 1X day | 9/17/2010 | 1 | high chlorestl | severe joint/muscle pain could hardley walk have been in physical therapy for a month after stopping crestor for 2 month | no one can tell me what to do when your body cannot talerate statins | F | 57 | 60 days 10 1X day | 9/10/2010 |