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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR CRESTOR | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | high cholesterol | Almost immediately I began experiencing muscle aches so severe in my legs that I could not sit or stand comfortably, had about a twenty pound unexplainable weight gain. Fingers and feet swelled so that shoes and rings could not be worn. Fatigued to the point that by 11 AM my energy level was spent for the day. Had to lay down and nap. Could not sleep comfortably at night due to leg pain. | After I was taken off of Pravocol by my Doctor and put on Crestor, the effects were felt almost from the start. I attributed them to stress,and a case of the flu. They became so bad that I sought help not from my doctor but from the internet, and guess what...now I have the explanation. There are too many of us experiencing the same symptoms on this drug. I will take myself off of this drug immediately, and risk the high cholesterol. | F | 48 | 90 days | 9/4/2007 | 3 | High cholesterol | Was taking 10 mg. Crestor three times a week. In July it was upped to 10 mg. daily. Since then, I've had nausea but never attributed it to this medication. In the past week, I've had incredible right shoulder blade pain, which radiates to my chest. have no symptoms of gall bladder, or other digestive problems. In reading others comments, I'm wondering if the Crestor is behind these pains. I'm going to stop my medication as of tonight and see what happens. Even a massage hasn't helped this shoulder pain, and like someone else posted, I've taken so many Advils, who knows whats next! Anyone else feeling these symptoms? | Not sure about this. When taken three times a week, my levels did come down. Haven't been checked yet since taking daily. | F | 53 | 2 months | 9/3/2007 | 1 | high cholesterol | vertigo in the mornings after taking it for ten days | F | 66 | 10 days | 9/2/2007 | 1 | High cholesterol | Joint pain, severe burning muscle pain - I feel like I've been beaten up! Feel weak, bruised, very sore, difficulty walking. Palpitations, tire very easily. Stomach problems, nausea. | Never had such miserable side effects. My Dr switched me from Pravachol to Crestor because of muscle pain. This is worse! Would never recommend this to anyone. Lucky are those few who never have side effects. Better to watch what I eat and concentrate on exercise. Hope that discontinuing drug will improve symptoms. | F | 63 | 4 months | 9/2/2007 | 4 | High Cholestoral | Virtually none And all my lab tests are nomal except Havn't reached optimal goal for LDL | Was on Lipitor Had achey feelings and my teeth hurt.Asked Dr.for more samples but he was out.He had samples of 10mg of crestor.I started taking it and and the muscle and teeth pain subsided.Neither drug gets me to my targeted cholestoral level.and i will not take a higher dose.Dr added Zetia will have too see how this works | M | 51 | 2 years | 9/1/2007 | 5 | high cholesterol | None what so ever. | I switched to Crestor because my insurance quit paying for Zocor and I am glad I did. My total cholesterol went down about 30 points my good went up 10 points my bad went down 20 points and my triglycerides came down 20 points. I have been very happy with this drug. | M | 50 | 3 years | 8/31/2007 | 1 | cholesterol as high as 300 | Terrible pain in upper left thigh bone and muscle as well as calf muscle...no one advised me about syndrome associated with statins where there can be severe muscle damage. I stopped taking 5 mg of Crestor after 3 weeks and the extreme pain disappeared. We are researching other medicines. | F | 55 | 3 weeks | 8/30/2007 | 1 | high cholesterol | Extreme pain in left hip and lower back, abdominal pain, constipation, general rundown feeling. | Started taking Crestor and within a week developed extreme pain in my left hip and lower back. I have had lower back problems for many years and had just purchased a new vehicle so I attributed pain to getting used to the new seats and never considered the drug to be the cause of my latest problems. Took 4 or 5 Chiropractic treatments that seemed to help a bit but then suddenly after almost 2 months on Crestor the pain got worse and the treatments were doing nothing to help the situation. Then one morning I was getting out of bed and I suddenly dawned on me that the pain had started just about the time I started taking the Crestor. I contacted my Doctor who advised I stop taking it and within 2 days the pain was 90% gone and every day I feel a little better. I'm currently waiting for the results of blood tests to insure no permanent damage but I will not be going back on this drug! | M | 62 | 2 months | 8/28/2007 | 4 | Poor HDL/LDL Ratio | I was originally prescribed 10 mg dosage. Took the dose before going to bed. Had quesy stomach in the morning. | The Crestor lowered my total cholesterol from 205 to 117. My HDL remains at 34. Doctor recently cut my dosage to 5 mg and my stomach feels a whole lot better in the morning. | M | 51 | 20 months | 8/21/2007 | 1 | high cholesterol | Severe pain, swelling, throbbing in hands. Insomnia, memory problems. Neuropathy in legs and arms. | Doctor switched me from Lipitor 10mg/daily to Crestor 10mg/daily. Went from feeling fine to feeling terrible. I feel flulike all the time. Saw doc about pain in hands. Doc thought it was arthritis, x-rays showed nothing. I am stopping this drug TODAY. Wish I had done this research BEFORE I took this drug. Can only pray symptoms will reverse. | F | 55 | 5 months | 8/16/2007 | 1 | Cholesterol high | Back pain, kidney pain, hip pain, so bad I couldn't sleep of think of anything else. Totally debilitating drug | Stopped taking and began improvement within a day - after two weeks feel great. | M | 64 | 60 days | 8/15/2007 | 1 | High Cholesterol | 5 MG of Crestor started 20 days ago. Numbness all along my right side, especially in right leg and along the right side of my head. I have also been having difficulty sleeping, frequent bouts of diarrea, and the worst of all Panic Attacks. At first, I thought I developed a food allergy but the more we put everything together it all started 6 days after starting Crestor. I have had difficulty thinking clearly, memory loss and have felt a general sense of anxiety. My throat feels thick and constricted and I feel like a small child is sitting on my chest at the collar bone. I have visited the ER twice in the last 10 days for what I thought was an food allergic reaction. I'll still go get allergy tested but am hopeful this poison will be out of my system quickly. | Won't ever take it again and probably will avoid all statins. | M | 33 | 20 days | 8/15/2007 | 1 | High cholesterol | Muscles just so weak I could not get out of a chair and could not walk without a cane. | Took Crestor for 3 months and had muscle ache and after a year of not taking the pill am still having problems with my feet. My Dr. also had problems with Crestor and only takes it every other day because of the effect it had on his muscles. | M | 66 | 3 months | 8/11/2007 | 2 | high cholesterol | extreme pain in my heels and hips that made walking and bending over very painful | I had first attributed the symptoms to some very strenuous physical work that I had been doing. It never dawned on me that it could be a side effect until reading about it. I have quit taking the med 2 days ago and symptoms are already subsiding. I will have to call the doctor to try something different. | F | 41 | 30 days | 8/4/2007 | 1 | high cholestorol | I have extreme pain in all of the following joints & muscles...fingers, wrists, hands, shoulders and knees. I have been having trouble with my short term memory and cannot sleep. I have been off of this horrible drug for almost 2 weeks now and still feel terrible! I have swelling in my thumbs and middle fingers of each hand. I can barely type this on the computer! I feel and have been feeling as if I have the flu. I was just recovering from a total knee replacement and this drug has been worse than the surgery! I am presently taking strong prescription pain killers that I had left over from my surgery. Without these pain killers, I cannot even walk, sleep, or move my hands. If anyone out there has experienced these symptoms...please e-mail me and tell me how long it takes to recover from the effects of this dangerous drug??!?? I have been to a doctor already. He tells me that it can take 2-3 weeks to get it out of my system--well...it has been almost 2 weeks and I seem to | I took Crstor, 20mgs, for approx. 30 days. Then I ran out and didn't re-fill the script for about 30 days because it was soooo expensive. I just started it again about 17 days ago..but stopped after I had taken it for just 4 days because I woke up on the 5th day with this horrible pain and swelling in my hand, fingers and shoulders. | F | 58 | | 8/4/2007 | 1 | to lower my colesterol | Over a few months(no problem in the beginning), I slowly developed a lot of severe joint and muscle pain in my legs. My legs felt like lead weights, and going up a couple of flights of stairs left me breathing extremely hard, it felt like my heart was going to bust.The pain in my knees was so extreme,I was afraid of falling on my face with every step. I was having a hard time going to the bathroom(#2) and became a gas factory. I saw the orthopaedic surgeon about the joint pain and he was thinking back or arhtritis. Quiting the drug has cleared most of my problems up.I still have a limp in my left leg and some pain in the joints and muscles of both legs. It has only been a week and I hope the rest of the pain goes away soon. | This drug is dangerous for some people, extremely so because the problems appear late and are confused with another problem in the body. Especially when the prescribing doctor is not doing proper monitoring and is not educated enough on the effects of these statin drugs. | M | 54 | 4 months | 7/28/2007 | 2 | elevated cholesterol | Very effective in lowering LDL but after taking 10mg Crestor for 4 months I began to experience various severe muscle pains, especially in right calf and foot. Mild to severe muscle pain between my shoulder blades and spine occassionally wakes me up and is only relieved during medium to heavy resistance training. After one year on this dosage I had begun to experience pain in my sacro-iliac joints and some sharp pain in my left hip. | I have discontinued use. Surely there are effective alternatives to these statins. Using them just substitutes one bad situation for another. Who wants to live like this? At least I could sleep with elevated cholesterol. | M | 57 | 13 days | 7/26/2007 | 1 | high cholesterol | memory loss, and extreme muscle pain and fatigue | i do not recommend this drug at all | F | 50 | 2 years | 7/24/2007 | 1 | high cholesterol | Weight gain, confusion, bad dreams, pain in left chest, insomnia, irritable, hard to concentrate, out of breath, bad memmory, extreme anxiety, tired, airplane ears, depression | On crestor 10mg just over one year. I have gained 20 pounds with no diet change, actually eating less. Unexplained confusion and lack of concentration with tasks that I could normally do with no problems. Bad vivid dreams, in one dream I was kicking a witch that was under my bed and woke to my wife screaming for me to stop kicking her leg (this is not a joke). Pain on left side of chest that doctors could not explain. Extreme anxiety for which I am now taking medication for. Memmory at times is so bad that I have had arguments with family members about items that I had no recolection that I had moved or put away myself and thought that they put away without my knowing, leadng me to search the entire house (happens on regular basis). Sometimes out of breath especially when talking. Have been hospitalized due to extreme shortness in breath, anxiety and pain in chest, thought that it was a heart attack, had every cardio test done under the sun, all perfect. Cardiologists says heart is fin | M | 35 | 1 years | 7/21/2007 | 1 | High cholesterol | Many of the same side effects already posted. Thanks to everyone who took the time to post. | I was on 10mg for approximately 9 months when I started experiencing the same side effects as many others have already posted(diarrhea, tiredness, muscle aches, etc.). I eventually took myself off this medication and consulted with my doctor who strongly agreed. I documented the gradual decline of the symptoms I was experiencing. In my case, after discontinuing the use of Crestor 10mg, it took 76 days before I began to feel normal again and I have no more signs of the side effects of this drug. I have been prescribed 5mg of Simvastatin (Zocor) but I am very apprehensive about starting another statin drug. | M | 56 | 9 months | 7/16/2007 |