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 | over 250 | Severe joint pain in hands and wrist and feet. Exrays and blood work, found no arthritis, lupus, etc. Was taking only 5 mg once daily | Crestor brought my cholesterol down from 255 to 180. The joint pain was too severe to continue medication. After reviewing all of the comments listed, I am now sure it was due to Crestor. I will consult doctor for plan B. | M | 35 | 6 months | 3/27/2008 | 1 | Hyperlipidema | muscle and joint pain, involving shoulders, upper arms, chest wall, lower abdomen, both thighs. extreme tiredness. | I was started on Crestor after virtually the same side effects with Pravacol. I went off the Pravacol on my own, then call the physician who recommended Crestor. I waited until almost all of the pain was gone (approx. 1 week) prior to starting the Crestor. Within 72 hours all the symptoms had returned only worse. I again have stopped the medication on my own. I am not going to go back on another statin. From the research I have done, cholesterol numbers do not effect coronary artery disease in women as it does in males. I sure hope that is true. | F | 62 | 2 months | 3/24/2008 | 3 | Elevated cholesterol and CAD | Persistent stiff neck, lowered energy, 5 lb. otherwise unexplained weight gain. Lowered libido. | Taking Crestor for cholesterol level of 178, which is too high for someone with coronary artery disease compounded by high blood pressure. Lowered cholesterol to 117, but at the expense of 5 lb. weight gain, lowered energy, and libido. | M | 68 | 3 months | 3/22/2008 | 1 | high cholesterol | First three weeks everything was normal, I was taking 10mg Crestor. Then, my right arm started to hurt, and my elbow was so swollen, I began to think I had broken my arm in my sleep or something, the arm was so weak, I could not do anything with it, I couldn't pick up anything...at first I thought it was arthritis, I didn't tie it to the medicine, until I started reading this blog. After a week of pain, I was leaving on a company trip to Italy, I stopped taking the Crestor...it has now been 10 days off, pain is reduced, but still there. I have still not been to my Doctor, (only three days home)I don't know if it helped the cholesteral or not, but it just ruined my trip to Italy, I was in so much pain. I will not take it again. | F | 63 | 3 days | 3/21/2008 | 4 | high cholesterol | none | 5mg m/w/f lowered my total cholesterol from 247 to 202. (15mg per week). Doc recently suggested 5 days (25mg per week) to get it below 200. | M | 59 | 4 months | 3/19/2008 | 1 | high cholesteral | severe muscle aches & pains, including joints, achilles tendon & foot pain, hands, arms, legs, water retention | have been off Crestor about 2 weeks now and am not feeling better yet. worried that this won't go away, not sure how long it takes for Crestor to get out of my system, was on Lipitor before that for quite a while (2-3 years) | F | 50 | 1 years | 3/18/2008 | 1 | High cholesterol | Taking 10mg for 3 weeks (about 20 pills). Also taking it with aspirin, benzapril for high blood pressure, and some Vitamin E and C. Into the 4th week I had blood in my urine for almost a week, burning sensation with urination and now into the 5th week my urine is cloudy. My physician is testing me for kidney stones and doesn't think Crestor is the culprit. | M | 33 | 21 days | 3/12/2008 | 2 | high bad cholesterol | Severe stomach pain and headache | M | 53 | 2 years | 3/8/2008 | 2 | Dr Recommended that I switch to it | Just an overwhelming sense of despair. | Hard to tell what part the drug caused in side effect. I must admit I have not felt that depressed since. | M | 44 | 45 days | 3/8/2008 | 1 | cholesterol and a heart attack | Extreme joint and muscle pain. constant fatigue, some mental confusion, hives. | I feel like I have been beaten with a baseball bat and just want to get back to normal | F | 65 | 6 weeks | 3/7/2008 | 3 | To lower my bad Cholestrol | My Cholestrol and TriGL. were off the roof, Started taking this (10mg) for about 18 mons. Now getting calf muscle aches here and there, back aches. It feels more like fatigue due to running around etc. Did not notice memory issue. Although the numbers did come down to normal | I may ask my Doc to bring it down to 5mg, I just have to start living healthy stop on donuts, Cinamon Rolls etc. As all drugs have side affects. | M | 37 | 18 months | 3/5/2008 | 3 | high cholesterol | Muscle pain and weakness in shoulder and upper arms. | Did lower cholesterol by almost 50%, but am concerned about muscle pain and weakness | M | 53 | 2 months | 3/5/2008 | 2 | Heart Bypass | Unable to Breath - I switched from Zocor to Crestor 10mg a few months ago and noticed I no longer had muscle pain. My lipid profile was getting better, LDL 3.7mmo/L (143mg/dL), HDL 1mmo/L (39mg/dL), but I noticed what I thought was a continous continous acid reflux (but wider, not just in the center of the chest), and occassionally woke up gasping for air. My Cardioligist then increased the dose to 20mg. During the days that followed I found it difficult to breath, and after 3 days woke up unable to get enough air. I walked to the hospital and noticed I could regain my breath whilst active, but when I relaxed in the waiting room it returned. Chest X-Ray, ECG and blood tests later, it seemed I was not short on oxygen in the blood, and it wasn't a heart attack. They couldn't say what was causing it, but suggested I sleep with two pillows under my head. Switched back to 10mg the next day and it hasn't returned. I'm thinking now that the continious stomache ache is actually a lung ache! | I had my bypass in 1997. And have in the past tried Lipitor, Pravocol, Simvahexal and Zocor. Think I'll switch to 5mg Crestor + Ezetrol 10mg (as well as Plavix 10mg + 4g Salmon Oil which I'm on now), and see how that goes. Plavix is much better for me than 81mg asprin was (it used to give me intestine pain). Hoping that D-4F or something similar will come to the rescue in the near future. | M | 46 | 4 months | 3/2/2008 | 5 | Very high cholesterol levels | No side effects | I've had high cholesterol ever since it was first tested about 12 years ago. I already exercise daily (always have done) and have been in the normal weight range or slightly overweight all my adult life. I’ve never smoked or drunk alcohol excessively. I've tried Lipitor, and two other statins (simvastatin and some other I don't remember the name of) but had terrible side effects from them (muscle pains and flu-like symptoms). I then tried fibrates; which caused nausea and didn't lower my cholesterol at all. I tried niacin - didn't work, plant sterols - didn't work. So I forgot about my cholesterol seeing as there wasn't anything I could do about it. At the end of last year I had a check up and my cholesterol was higher than ever and the doctor prescribed me Crestor 10mg (rosuvastatin calcium). I didn't have any problems with this drug and it has worked well for me. These are my results after 2½ months of being on Crestor: Total cholesterol BEFORE 297 mg/dL NOW 142 mg/d | M | 47 | 75 days | 2/29/2008 | 1 | Cholesterol | terrible muscle pain, can't sleep | Do not take it! It is dangerous | M | 62 | 1 years | 2/27/2008 | 5 | High cholesterol | no known side effects | Crestor has lowered my total cholesterol to 150. Having taken most of the statins since Ive had high cholesterol all my life, this is the only one to bring me beneath the 200 mark..EVER. Insurance wants to pay only for generic, I pay extra for this one and do not mind. | F | 45 | 2 days | 2/26/2008 | 1 | familial chlosterol | weird spinning or falling dreams,dizziness and nausea, severe constipation,foot pain, weight gain,hip pain,fog in brain,large muscle pain in legs,night sweat.no its not all in my head.i am a healthy lady age 49. i feel better almost immediately when stopping dosage.i need to change my diet and stop this so called medicine. | M | 49 | 2 years | 2/26/2008 | 3 | High cholesterol | weight gain, craving sugar (if I skip the pill at night-no cravings next day), increased thirst, numbness & tingling in left arm and hand, find myself having difficulty making decisions over small matters, increased dreams | I also have a lot of neck pain, but I always have.Last few weeks I have started back serious gardening and I am more fatigued and sore than I have ever been--I was blaming it on "being a year older", but maybe not.On 10 mg of Crestor, my cholesterol dropped over 100 points in 2 months, and my ratio improved. | F | 58 | 3 months | 2/25/2008 | 1 | To lower cholesterol | Severe muscle (shoulder, elbow) pain, blurred vision, unpleasant breath (unknown rotten fruit, sleeplessness, day time drowsiness, depression and anxiety, restrictive physical movement (can not move the shoulder without excrusiating pain, elbow felt as if the bone was broken. | I was taking Lipidot without any side effects. Switched to Crestor at the advise of the physician. Didn't know that Asians are more affected by Crestor!!! I won't touch it again. | M | 60 | 1 months | 2/23/2008 | 4 | high LDL | Constipation (a couple prunes every few days works). Very bad at first but went away. Anxiety attacks are awful, but when I recognize the onset I try biofeedback to relax, drink something warm, soothing music..etc. Cut back on coffee. Brain fog quite worrisome- today I could not remember how to spell the end of my son's name...was the ending ...in or en??? That was disturbing. Got to stay sharp at work...I "chunk" job tasks and write everything down. Try singular multi-tasking. Sometimes over react-- out of character and very strange. Often feel like I am catching a cold (light headed and achy), but don't. | Red rice yeast, CoQ10 and fish oil really lowered LDL for me-149,(HDL 119) but Crestor dropped LDL to 86, HDL up to134. Very good number for someone with evidence of calcification in coronary arteries and family history of heart disease. | F | 54 | 13 months | 2/13/2008 |