Numbing hands - statin side effect - High Cholesterol Message Board

darock_sayz · 03-12-2006, 05:36 PM

Wanted to know if this could be a side effect of a statin - Zocar. Sometimes I am waking up and my hands are num and feel weak. COuld this be a side effect or am I perhaps just sleeping on them and being paranoid ?

Stumper · 03-12-2006, 06:02 PM

If ALL you have is numb hands?

Your just sleeping on them or have a pinched nerve. I used to wake up thinking I had no hands at all from sleeping on them LONG before I ever took a Statin.

darock_sayz · 03-23-2006, 05:09 PM

Off zocar for 2 weeks...no pain in hands

JJ · 03-23-2006, 05:22 PM

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Originally Posted by darock_sayz

Off zocar for 2 weeks...no pain in hands

Glad U got to the bottom of it, many folks have side effects, others do fine. Just be glad U found that particular drug doesn't agree with you now before U kept on with it.

JJ · 03-23-2006, 06:23 PM

..maybe what he was describing was like what hubby has. Although he has PN, which is basically numbness, it also throbs and causes pain. I guess the only way I can describe it is like when your hand or leg falls asleep, although it is "numb", it hurts too. I know I had a pinched nerve in my neck many years ago, and although it was sort of numb, it hurt like crazy at times. Just my guess, I could be wrong.......