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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR CRESTOR | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | cramps | M | 54 | 90 days 10 1X day | 2/8/2010 | 1 | high cholesterol | started with sore joints, hot flashes, overload of energy, stopped monthly cycle,weight loss extreme energy, anxiety. | I believe Crestor caused me to have hyperthyroid: I am still having MD's try to address all of symptoms. These all started within 3 weeks of this medicine. three months and still no monthly cycle. This is awful med. | F | 45 | 1 months 10 mg 1X day | 2/7/2010 | 1 | upper arms upper back | muscle spasm upper arm upper back | F | 41 | 2 weeks 5mg 1X day | 2/6/2010 | 2 | High LDL | Leg cramps. | Doc told me to stop taking it for a few days when it started causing cramps then start back up. That only worked for a little bit then it happened every time I took a pill. Did lower my LDL - but I was improving my diet too. | M | 28 | 30 days 10mg 1X day | 2/5/2010 | 1 | High cholesterol | I started to experience numbness in right arm and leg, dizziness, blurred vision. Could barely walk. Numbness lasts 3-5 minutes. Then numbness started on left side, arm and leg. I'm not sure if it is from Crestor, but beside that, I'm taking Azor for high blood pressure and chalk it up to one of these medicines. Stopped taking Crestor for two days and numbness is subsiding and not getting it as much. Was getting numb 4-5 times per day. I feel these symptoms are related to Crestor. | After reading other comments, I'm staying off Crestor and going to try alternative methods to drop cholestrol. My niece works for a doctor and has advised me to try RED YEAST RICE OR ARTICHOKE EXTRACT (pills) from Health Food Store. Ask you physician about this. | F | 56 | 8 days 1X day | 2/4/2010 | 1 | High LDL | Started on crestor six years ago, stopped three years ago due to pain in lower back,hips and thighs. I constantly feel hot to touch and wrongly thought it was menopause. Spent a fortune on pyhsio etc. with no help. Exercise doesn't help. Family doctor refuses to accept it may be crestor-related. Q10 doesn't help. Any solutions three years later? I am a nurse and can't find solutions to the dramatic change in my life...any scientific solutions? | The physicians are unable to keep out of the pockets of the pharmaceutical companies plus they are too busy to care. Be very aware of all meds taken, no one elae will. | F | 59 | 3 years | 2/1/2010 | 4 | high chloresterol | after taking it for about 6 months i got a sore shoulder, tingling sensation in right arm and hand. Dr prescribed Diclofenac, which i took for about 6 weeks. it might have helped the soreness but did not eliminate the tingling. some trouble sleeping and going back to sleep after waking. facial features seem to be bloated, though it may just be aging. havent stopped taking crestor, but will consult with my doctor soon. | after about 3 mos. crestor lowered my chloresterol by almost 50%. havent checked levels since then. | M | 70 | 315 days | 1/28/2010 | 4 | high LDL | Some cramping and muscle pain until I started taking CoQ10 | F | 53 | 2 months | 1/28/2010 | 3 | high cholesterol | can anyone tell me if they have experienced itchy scalp or skin while on this medication | I do not have dry or flakey scalp, just constant itching with no redness, seems to worsen at night | F | 49 | 1 years | 1/28/2010 | 1 | High Cholesterol | I took 5 mg for about 4 months. Developed neck pain. My Dr. took x-rays and nothing showed on them. Developed hip pain had x-rays nothing showed on them. Went off crestor and pain did not go away. Doctor put me on Diclofenac for inflammation did not budge the pain. Crestor worked, my number went from 250 down to 97. Went back on Crestor because the pain was there when I went off it. It has been 3 weeks and I feel like I am going to die. I have pain everywhere now. My neck, my shoulder, my arm and hip. I have spasms in my back and twitching in my fingers. I have no energy. I am off the meds and have a call into my Dr. If he orders another x-ray I am finding a new Dr. I have never had pain my whole life. I am a healthy 50 year old and weigh 115 lbs. I hope my pain goes away after time if not I am calling a lawyer. | Take the meds but if you have any type of pain get off it immediately. | F | 50 | 4 months | 1/27/2010 | 1 | High Cholesterol | Leg cramps, especially in calves; pain in between shoulder blades with pain migrating down left arm and triceps | My cardiologist suggested Crestor for elevated cholesterol.I've tried other statins for this but have not had this severe pain.Thinking the pain was not related, I went to my chiropractor for this extreme pain in my upper back and left arm.After his adjustment, I am still unable to sleep any longer than one hour at a time. Heat packs and Aleve don't even come close to giving me any relief. I'm calling the cardiologist tomorrow to get off this crap and will work on a more holistic approach to my cholesterol problem. | M | 57 | 21 days | 1/24/2010 | 2 | i have super high cholesterol - 600 | After three weeks on 10 mgm crestor, my cholesterol dropped to half of what it had been [about 300 in your system] then i went to 20 mgm and it went to just above normal - but i failed the first liver function test taken 12 weeks after i started on crestor. | My sister got muscle problems after some years on lipitor and she switched to crestor - she's on 40mgm which is a real lot - so far so good but i expect she'll get more problems. I have stopped taking crestor while I think about what to do next. I think i'll try Dr Linus Pauling's advice - vitamin C and L-proline and L-lysine. They are natural stuff. If Crestor gives you muscle aches, that can kill you! | F | 64 | 12 weeks | 1/19/2010 | 1 | High Cholesterol | Started on 5mg October of 09. Progressive joint pain with swelling in knees, fluid retention, acid reflux, general malaise and fatigue, horrible shoulder pain. These symptoms progressed to the point where I could not sleep at night due to the pain, also had leg cramps/spasms at night, and just generally felt like crap. Wrote it off to age/arthritis/wear and tear. (55 year old former firefighter/nurse/paramedic, still nursing/paramedic) I have a great doctor/patient relationship and tried different remedies for what I though was OA finally catching up with me. exercise, yoga, lots of Advil, etc...... I finally called the office in mid December and asked for pain killers (for what I then thought must be flare ups from old injuries) and took vicodin for a month and yet the pain just seemed to continue to grow. I've lived with some degree of pain for years, but this was different, the pain meds dulled it, but the pain never actually went away. Visit to the doc today, d | First: Run away as fast as you can if your doc prescribes this. Second: (And SHAME ON ME BECAUSE I KNOW BETTER! LOL) Read up the side effects BEFORE you start a drug. I could have saved myself a lot of pain. Third: Out of this world expensive (and I had the drug company "discount" card to boot!) and the side effects are not worth it. I can buy a lot of Cheerios and oatmeal for what a month of this junk cost. | F | 55 | 3 months | 1/18/2010 | 2 | high cholesterol/stroke | Leg pain and weakness. Flushing and sweating. | Got to point could not go all the way up a flight of stairs. Dr did blood test,muscle protin was neg. Kept taking it but got so bad hurting, I stopped one week ago and already much better. Interested in postings regarding feelings of being hot/sweating | F | 38 | 7 months | 1/17/2010 | 1 | Aching legs, muscle pain and lethargy. This on 5 mg. 5 times per week (my Doctor has gradually been weaning me onto this med and I was fine until I went from 4 days/week to 5 days/week). I have stopped it. | PEOPLE --- this is the strongest statin out there and it DOES work very well on lowering total cholesterol but the side effects are NOT worth the benefits of the drug. This CAN be a dangerous medication if you don't pay attention to what your body is telling you while you are taking it. | F | 71 | 3 months | 1/17/2010 | 1 | high cholesterol | i was taking crestor for 4 weeks, my lipids went from 275 to 213 but the muscle aches, mental confusion were so bad that i felt as if I were poisoned. I stopped in november and I am still suffering the side effects. how long does it take to get out of my system. | I am angry that the doctor recommended crestor. I told her that I had fibomyalgia and had trouble with statins before. she felt 5mg was a small amount. | F | 80 | 4 weeks | 1/17/2010 | 1 | Marginally high cholesterol | Progressive onset of leg pains ending with extreme leg weakness: could hardly walk up or down stairs, walking and standing was difficult. Upper body OK. | Took Centrum Silver at the same time as Crestor initially. Found out that was a No No by reading the small print and moved them apart by 12 hours. Symptoms began. First complaint to doctor was dismissed. 1 year later, second much stronger complaint was immediately accepted; stopped taking Crestor; ALL symptoms gone in 3 days. | M | 69 | 4 years | 1/16/2010 | 5 | high cholestrol | none | M | 63 | 2 months | 1/13/2010 | 1 | high cholestrol & blood presure | pains in upper & lower back pain in legs & knees & feet right shoulder arms tingling sensation in arm's and hands at night not enough sleep depression and no energy | I've been taking 10 mg. crestor for 10 yrs these symtoms showed after taking crestor for a short time but my doctor told me it's from atrhrits I have lot's I'am 58 yrs old now and they keep sending me for test and blood work because he doesn't understand why nothing helps me I also have liver & kidney diesease after a long liver treatment my liver diesease is under control but I need to ask my self why my doctor would give me this stuff when he knows I have these problems tonight I stop taking crestor A use a more natural way to lower my cholestrol thanx for the info everyone you helped me out rockyj | M | 58 | 10 years | 1/12/2010 | 1 | High Cholesterol | Pain in left hand, pain in right middle finger. | Taking 5mg of Crestor for about 6 months now. It did lower my cholesterol from 230 to about 170. Started noticing side effects about 3 months ago. I started getting pain in my right middle finger, almost like tendon soreness. Pain would come when I try to twist a bottle cap off. Now about a week now I noticed that my left hand hurts. Almost seems like carpal tunnel or tendonitis. Other than my cholesterol I am in great health. I am a bodybuilder and have been working out regularly since I was 17 years old. I am 44 now. A friend of mine is a drug rep for the company that makes Crestor and recommends that I stop the medication for two weeks to see if the problems go away. We shall see..... | M | 44 | 6 months | 1/12/2010 |