Yepper I take the generic Rosuvastatin. Watch for rheumetoid like symptoms, they will sneak up on you and bite you in the butt. It will feel like the morning after a workout sore joint kinda thing and then get progressively worse. If you don't cease taking the crestor at this point the symptoms become chronic and acute with a good chance of becoming permanent even when the medication is stopped. The efficacy is second to none in reducing the LDL component in your lipid profile but periodic liver function assessment is critical to determine long term effect of the statin.

Really,,,,,, now that you say this I was thinking what the heck is bugging my knees this week. I have used my tread mill alot so I was thinking maybe it was that even though this had not been a problems in the past. Thanks for your feedback Joe.

I tried it -- briefly. After a couple of weeks, my muscles were so sore all over I felt like I'd been in a car wreck. So I quit taking it, and after a couple of weeks I started to feel better.

Hey Challenger!

You should read the earlier thread "Statin drugs and CoQ10"- it's got some helpful related information. You can find it by using the search mechanism above. Hope it helps!

Hi Challenger,
I take 20mg of Crestor and I take Co-Q10. I've never had any problems with the Crestor, and my numbers are great. However, different meds affect everyone in different ways, so you just have to monitor how they affect you and then get with your MD to decide a course of action.

Pam

Also do not forget that certain things can alter the assimilation mechanism of statins and make them to concentrate in the blood increasing its toxicity.

Some of those are: grapefruit juice, pomegranate juice and concentrated, and the newest : Resveratrol anti-oxidant.

Jesus

Jesus - should we then stay away from the things you mentioned?

Don'i mean to hop in on Jesus Lee but absolutely. The natural items he mentioned allow the statins to remain staurated in our systems and build to a toxic level upon redosintg. Our bodies don't assimilate them, and actually reconstitute the statin by multipying efficacy and threshold amounts to a very serious concentration, which causes severe hepatic impairment as a precursor to compete kidney disfunction and liver failure. This is not an atypical reaction to many herbs and contraidicating substances which we may deem harmless when taken alone only to prove toxic when in combibation with a prescribed medication. That is a very good reason to have an open dialogue with the Phamacist and the prescribing Physician.

yup I take Crestor out of all of the other statins that is the only one that I didn't have bad side effects, believe it or not.

I don't remember the numbers the doctor told me but mine are sky high! My heart doctor told me that she thought mind might be inherted type.
So do you know if your Cholesterol might be also?

just food for thought.

Ruthie

I did not realize there was a generic for Crestor???

Joe - that is just amazing, I'm a Natural kind of girl. Natural herbs healed me before.
Resveratrol is something I started taking in the beginning and I even had my sister on it as well. That is like wine but better, in a sense.

Ladylee,

Yes, Resveratrol is "relatively" natural (the extraction process is not that natural) but remember EVERYTHING, I repeat EVERYTHING that we eat, drink or respire HAS SIDE EFFECTS.

I remember more than 20 years ago reading that chickens respiring only pure oxygen develop cancer in a few days.

Pure distiled water (that normally you do not drink) will dissolve your teeth in a couple of years. Even normal tap or mineral water, it is not advisable to drink it in large quantities because, the less that it can do if you are healthy, is to take important minerals out of your body.

And yes Resveratrol is a good "natural" Antioxidant but interfere with one of the metabolic processes in the organism and therefore can increase the toxicity of statins. In addition to that , like most antioxidants has blood thinner properties, so if you go for any operation, even small like a dentist work, you should stop it a few days in advance. Also to prevent possible bleeding in your stomach, I would advise to take it after the meals.

As a general rule, I do not take anything until I find the list of possible side effects. And if I do not find them, I consider that it is a product that has not been properly investigated.

Also be VERY aware of plants and natural infusions, normally they give no problems to healthy people, but depending how damage your heart is ... you should be careful with the side effects. The big problem with plants is that they have hundred of active components and that you never know its concentration since it depends of growth conditions and harvesting.

Jesus