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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR CRESTOR | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 2 | to lower LDL and raise HDL | I took this drug for 2 & 1/2 months. My doctor did not discuss any side effects to me I found out on my own never take and anti acid because it raised my blood pressure from 118/62 to 186/86. I quit taking over that weekend until I could see the Doctor. He said to remain on the drug within two weeks I was freezing all of the time with temp in our home at 76 I had to wear a sweater and still problems with stomach pain & nausea. Doctor did liver function and it was normal wanted me to remain on drug. Has any one had these side effects? | F | 61 | 10mg 1X day | 4/22/2010 | 3 | moderately high col. due to diabete | Severe lethargy, unable to walk across the room, chest pains not unlike pleurasy, shortness of breath, nasal congestion,back and neck pains,muscle weakness and loss of tone, short term memory loss. | Prescribed Crestor to assist lowering moderately high cholesterol levels due to diabetes, which it has done. BUT it has left me feeling twice my age almost overnight. Am too tired/weak to do most of my noromal household activities.Am now taking prednisone to treat asthma like symptoms which totally elevates my BSL readings. After reading all of these postings tonight it has confirmed to me what my 6th sense has been telling me for some time - TOSS IT !! | F | 61 | 9 months 10 1X day | 4/21/2010 | 1 | high chloresterol | Muscle pain, weakness - numbness in extremities - gums receding - memory loss - hair thinning | I reduced my dosage myself - surprised that muscle pain reduced immediately - did not associate other symptoms until recently due to peri-menopause. | F | 54 | 14 months 5 mg 1X day | 4/21/2010 | 1 | High Cholesterol | With Crestor I experienced severe knee and hip joint pain on right side. Pain started about 2 weeks after starting Crestor and gradually got worse. Pain was so severe I was almost unable to get in and out of my car or do other daily activities. Had taken Zocor (40 mg) for years with no adverse effects. Doctor was not satisfied with the total cholesterol being right at 200. I am also taking Zetia, Plavix and Metoprolol ER. Stopped Crestor 17 days ago and the pain has subsided considerably. Started taking Zocor again with no adverse effects. | M | 68 | 90 days 10 1X day | 4/21/2010 | 1 | high cholestrol | Unexplained burning foot pain, lethargic, difficult to walk, hips hurt, legs hurt, restless feet, leg cramps. | Doctor never ever mentioned side effects, even though i was seeing him for 4 months with pain especially the foot pain. | F | 47 | 5 months 10 mg 1X day | 4/20/2010 | 3 | HIGH CHOLESTEROL | AT 10 mg, both my achilles tendons got tendonitis, but no longer bothers me. Two months ago dosage was increase to 20 mg. After that, I had headaches, constipation, low libido, short term menory loss, irritability, weight gain, muscle tenderness, fatigue, and sore knees. I stopped taking the medicine, mainly due to not having enough money for the prescription, and have not experienced any of the side effects | The medicine does help reduce cholesterol levels, but the side effects are too many. I have felt better since I got off the medicine and will be asking my doctor for another option for treatment. A holistic approach hopefully will be the best. | M | 40 | 1 years 10 1X day | 4/19/2010 | 2 | colestrol | Had no side effects for 2 years, then on a Monday took Cialis an ED drug. No problems, then Wednesday noonish legs went weak, numbness and tingling in toes, general muscle pain from waist down, bottom of neck pain and severe stomach ache. Went to GP on Thursday had full body scan which showed no abnormalities.Friday went to hospital 7am after severe pains from waist down all night and no sleep.Blood tests showed everything ok.Very thorough Doctor immigrant from Bangladesh checked everything and said stop taking Crestor and prescribed Panadene Forte for the pain.Take every 6 hours when muscle pain returns. Stomach pain now gone and now 7.5 hours since last Panadene and legs now a little bit tingly, so hopefully no permanent muscle damage, but very scary stuff. | I am in Sydney Australia and do not think many Doctors here are aware of the possible side effects of this powerful drug. Until googling it yesterday I had no idea of the dangers | M | 65 | 2 years 10mg 1X day | 4/17/2010 | 1 | elevated colestrol | Cranky, weakness, fatigue, lack of ambition, headaches, cloudy memory, lack of good sleeping, frequent waking, severe pain in left knee to the point where I could not sleep at night due to the pain, and numbness in feet, deep nagging pain developed beneath the left shoulder blade, at the back. bottom of feet burn, ibuprofen 400mg every 4 hr helps some, wake up with tingling in my arms like they where asleep. Constipation, some shortness of breath | Quite taking Crestor on April 2, 2010, after 1 week pain in knee started to lessen, after 2nd week sleeping better, weakness gone, ambition returning, still have pain in knee, bottom of feet still burn but less, arms feel better still have some tingling but don’t seam to go to sleep anymore in the night, still tire easily. Constipation gone | M | 70 | 8 months 10mg 1X day | 4/16/2010 | 1 | Cholesterol | It has been 6 days since I stopped taking the Crestor, my pain is getting better. | I don't think these pills (or any of these statins that cause pain) should have even been APPROVED by the FDA. I mean my pain was disabilitating, I couldn't do anything. It was all I could do to get out of bed.. The FDA needs to RE TEST/STUDY these statins.. Will never take another statin again.EVER!!! | F | 45 | 20 mg 1X day | 4/14/2010 Patient History | 2 | To Lower Cholesterol | For the past 7 years I was taking Lipito 80MG. Prior to that I was taking Zocor. My Doctor at that time switched me from Zocor To Lipitor because he maintained that Lipitor was a better drug. About 7 weeks ago I started having severe muscle pains mostly in the legs but also in the neck. My Doctor told me to stop taking the Lipitor for a few days and then to resume it but taking a lower dosage 40mg instead of 80MG. After three days I had such severe cramps in my legs that the Doctor told me I should stay of it altogether and let my body just clean itself from this medication. After a wait of two weeks he recommended that I take CRESTOR in a low dosage (10MG) and to see how it agrees with me. I started taking it this past Thursday. On Friday I felt a pain in my neck but I still took it on Friday and Saturday. On Sunday I was in such severe pain that it was affecting my balance and I stopped taking it. My Doctor told me that I should stay away from it and all these medications. He is subs | M | 67 | 3 days 10MG 1X day | 4/13/2010 | 1 | high cholesterol | I have had hyperlipedemia for most of my life. Was on Lipitor, Zetia, Pravachol and then even though my levels were under 200 (I'm a diabetic as well) my doctor wanted to get aggressive and put me on 20 mg Crestor. Brought my level down to 175. She wasn't happy with that and wanted to get it closer to 100 so doubled the Crestor to 40 mg. I have always had muscle and joint pain but she wasn't concerned about that and always seemed to think it was something else like arthritis, degenerative joint disease...my imagination, etc. but after 2 months on the 40 mg Crestor my liver enzymes skyrocketed. She took me off of it completely and sent me to a gastroenterologist to search for liver disease. After running every test he could think of I was diagnosed with NAFLD and he said it had to be the Crestor because the enzyme levels had dropped significantly after keeping me off any statins for 60 days. So, she told me to go back on the lowest dose of Pravachol since I had the least amount of tr | F | 53 | 1 years 40 mg 1X day | 4/13/2010 | 1 | To Lower Cholesterol | Muscle Cramps, heart palpatations, muscle weakness, numbness and tingling in toes, shortness of breath. Tire very quickly | I have taken Lipitor, Zorcor and my doctor switched me to Crestor. There wasn't a particular reason. ( After reading some of the comments I suspect because of drug company and doctor) I have experienced these symptoms on all of these drugs but soldiered on because I thought that was what I should do. My doctor did mention that my kidney function was not up to par but just said we will have to watch that. I think this drug and others are very powerful and are relly not proven in the long term. After reading a lot of material I have quit taking them and already my leg cramps have subsided and my big toe is less numb. I also take a low dose aspirin daily. Some other things I have noticed is a feeling of being bloated plus a lot of gas. I have from time to time experienced symptons of Hypoglycemia where my blood sugar drops to about 3.2 and experience a severe weak feeling, shaking and general horrible feeling. Once I get my sugar back up I am fine. I'm scared as hell to take these drugs and equally scared not to. What does one do? | M | 68 | 2 years 10 1X day | 4/12/2010 | 1 | Cholesteral | SEVERE JOINT PAIN - HIPS AND ANKLE - GOUT LIKE SYMPTOMS | Lowered my Cholesteral but made me a crippled. 33yr old, good health except for high cholesteral. This med gave me joint pain that a vicoden could not handle. Unreal ankle pain and hip pain | M | 33 | 3 months 10mg 1X day | 4/12/2010 | 2 | cholesteral | once a month get upper front leg cramp, hurts like hell (use quinine to relieve) but now have had two calf cramps in two weeks PLUS burning under big toe. (Had the burning thing so bad a year ago that I could only sit and cool my foot.) I never dreamt all this was Crestor related. I have stopped today. | M | 69 | 2 years 10 1X day | 4/10/2010 | 1 | My doctor prescribed it . | I was using Vitorian because my doctor witch me to this medication. After five days of using this drug. I had leg cramps, stomach cramps and bloating.Was extremely tired and slept a lot then normal during the day, when night came I could not sleep at all. I am going back to my doctor in the morning and have him switch me back to Vitorian. I had no problems with the med. all my numbers was great. My HDL was low and he thought the crestor would bring it up. well I have changed my eating habit and is walking 45 min a day. I will see how that work for me and I will give another report on the out come. | I would not reconmend anyone to take this drug with so many complaints. My stomach really feel bad and right after taking the medication i experience chest discomfort. | F | 55 | 5 days 10 mg 1X day | 4/7/2010 | 5 | high cholesterol 240 | none | lowered cholesterol level by about 70 points | F | 50 | 12 months 5 mg 1X day | 4/6/2010 | 3 | high cholesterol | Immediate side effect was only one, but incredibly painful, was gout in both feet, ankles. The pain was excruciating and kept going for weeks, started soon after pills, never had before. | crestor lowered my cholesterol by a small amount, but the pain was very disabilitating, I can withstand a large amount of pain, I don't know how others can manage with this drug frankly if it causes this. Lowered my weight by 50 lbs, looking into other meds. | M | 50 | 60 days 10 mg 1X day | 4/6/2010 | 2 | Cholesterol | Severe shoulder & upper arm pain. It feels more like an ache than a muscle issue. | I plan to stop taking Crestor today (4/5/1010)I will report back with the results of my stopping this drug. | M | 59 | 45 days 10 1X day | 4/5/2010 | 1 | To lower cholestrol | No problems for the first month, then sore back, shoulders and arms. Was also terrified of everything and became even more hermit like. | Stopped taking them two months ago, arms still sore just as others have mentioned. Was on Lipitor previously which was just as evil and led to a needless hospital visit. No more statins for me even though my Doctor still believes the drugs are good. | M | 53 | 2 months 5mg 1X day | 4/5/2010 | 2 | Cholesterol 5.7 (UK) | Took this for about 9 months and cholesterol level reduced to 4. Felt OK for about 5 months then started feeling extremely tired and nauseous. Stopped last month for just one week and saw GP who took blood test. Cholesterol level soared in that week to 6.7 even though my diet is very low-fat. My liver test is giving cause for concern and I have to see GP again. Also have had one ultra-sound scan of pelvis three months ago and need a follow-up (this week) as something seen that "Just needs keeping an eye on" | I am coming off this tablet although GPs scare one about the possibility of strokes - even though they do not run in my family. I think patients should know before taking statins that if they stop them their cholesterol levels will rise higher than they were before they started the regime. | F | 72 | 250 days 10mg 1X day | 4/4/2010 |