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Those include Crestor rhabdomylosis, which is a very serious muscular issue that can prove fatal. Crestor side effects include sore muscles anyway, so I’m monitoring my sore muscles like a hawk, together with the muscle spasms I never appeared to get before.What about Crestor diabetes? That’s another potential Crestor side effect that I worry about every time I pop a 25 mg pill into my mouth in the evening. I’m improving my diet, and I’m exercising more. I’m losing a bit of weight, too. I’d rather control my cholesterol naturally, without taking this stuff.
I know, a statin is one of the most common treatment options for any middle-aged person who may be at risk for cardiac events brought on by narrowed arteries plugged with plaque.
But it doesn’t help when you read stuff like this…
A woman wrote into a self-help syndicated column appearing in The Star-Ledger (5/21/13) about her husband. In spite of regular exercise, he needed a stent to correct a serious blockage in one of his arteries. Still, with a lifelong commitment to a serious exercise regimen, this was a man who had lots of energy to spare.
Well, now they have Crestor issues. “His cardiologist put him on Crestor, and he became an old man before his time,” the disgruntled wife writes. “Muscle cramps, muscle weakness to the point that he was unable to exercise and our sex life became nonexistent.
“He stopped taking the medication and returned to normal.”
While the author of the note is only identified as “D.S.,” the namesake to the syndicated column is Dr. Roach, who advocated there is something to be said for quality of life.
Turns out the man’s cardiologist put the fellow on a different statin, which appeared to preserve the man’s quality of life better than Crestor, but his LDL cholesterol levels went up. By increasing the dose on this new statin, the spouse was concerned her husband would suffer the same Crestor side effects as he experienced on Crestor.
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In this man’s case, he was better off taking a different statin and risking a slightly elevated LDL, than kissing good-bye his overall quality of life to preserve a preferred LDL level on Crestor, but also beset with Crestor issues.
So I look at this guy, and I look at myself, and I look at the potential for Crestor side effects, and I realize that I am just one of hundreds of thousands of people thinking the same thing…
Is this good for me? Can I get off it? And if I don’t, am I facing Crestor diabetes and other Crestor issues?
With every muscle ache, I wonder...
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chocko
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You go on line to find real advice and run into lawyer's propaganda.
Catherine Nichols Pogorzelski
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At one point in time, my docs had me on Baycol, Zelnorm and Vioxx, in addition to Elavil, Effexor, Paxil & Neurontin, for supposed, "FIBROMYALGIA," which was actually undiagnosed Lyme, as so for 20 years. most of the muscle pain I had could be attributed to rhabdomyolysis, only a muscle and nerve biopsy shall tell; but without benefit of the Internet at the time, I'd taken myself off all 3 drugs and within a short while all 3 were pulled from the market, with only Zelnorm returning with a Black Box Warning.
It seems my own body KNEW something was not quite right with the way I was feeling and removing ALL OF these drugs from my regimen literally saved me; I was now able to get up out of bed after 4 years of being a bedridden ZOMBIE, and start to exercise, losing the 80 packed on pounds from being an invalid. I had also developed thyroid disease, (toxic multinodular goiter).
I NOW have issues from the 10 contrast MRI's to diagnose the "white matter in frontal lobe consistent with Lyme or vasculitis," because doctors REFUSED to treat me for the Lyme Disease, with appropriate type and length of treatment instead telling me what was visually seen on imaging would, " go away with positive thoughts" These were mainstream neurologists and doctors in major medical centers, not so-called "quacks!"
While I had parasitic co-infections of Babesia and b. Burgdorferi, the medical community was busy filling up my body with toxic heavy metal poisons, causing bilateral carotid stenosis, fibrosis/stenosis of my bowel,yellowing of sclera, bilateral contractures of hands and feet, systemic sclerosis, etc.
Recently, an Interventional cardiologist, who has placed 10 drug-eluting stents in my husbands' arteries, had a fit of aploplexy at my outright REFUSAL to take a statin for a high cholesterol level (it runs between 10-30 points high)because of my experiences with Baycol. I do not feel that a slight elevation like this, is an issue, it relates to eating a few less eggs, adding some oatmeal. I do exercicse daily. I eat no meat, no fats, except for enjoying those eggs once in a while, thanks to the Sjogren's induced pancreatitis I suffer from, I had dropped to 92 lbs! but this insane doctor Wiedermann, literally grabbed at his face with his hands saying, "I WILL give you the SAME statin I am on (he neglected to tell me which one) and it will reduce your cholesterol. Then I asked, "at what expense? Are you going to run my household, I will be bedridden again, NO THANKS,!" besides, if a statin makes me act like an insane lunatic, NO WAY!
All I know is to stay away from something that caused me such severe IRREPARABLE body-wide damage, added to an already fragile health and immune system from Lyme, exacerbated by MRI Gadolinium and a few Fluoroquinolone antibiotics (Levaquin)thrown in during a sinus infection, but co-prescribed with steroids, within One month of the Black box warning to NOT prescribe these together.
So when it comes to my health, I NOW read everything I can and then make decisions accordingly; LISTEN to your body, doctors are NOT gods, your Body is you temple, sometimes you just have to close the door, when the room's full and say, "we're not taking anymore!
Healthcare being the Fifth largest GNP in the US, it's no wonder doctors continue to write prescriptions for unneeded medications, then oyu will need another to combat those side effects. The medical community needs to police itself better. I also have retained barum in my bowel form a aswallow test in 2008, discovered by accident in 2010 during a second bowel prolapse surgery and I have been to at least 6 surgeons ALL OF WHOM REFUSE TO TAKE IT OUT, one telling me that "I THINK ITS YOUR TAILBONE!" Dr Sommers is responsible for that fiasco; let's see who's going to be honest enough to take this out for me and do what's right