High Cholesterol - Zocor

[roachbug]

Has anyone experienced bad side effects from taking Zocor such as pain/numbness in hands and feet?

[NHone]

That is a serious effect of cholesterol lowering with medication. If you're lucky the problem will go away if you stoop the cholesterol medication. The longer you stay on it, the higher the chance that the problem will be permanent.

[Bostonwnb]

Originally Posted by roachbug

Has anyone experienced bad side effects from taking Zocor such as pain/numbness in hands and feet?

I've been on 20mg Zocor for about a year now: zero side-effects. Don't believe everything you read on the 'net, and that goes doubly for the self-appointed statin nannies (one or two in particular) who repeat the same old bogus doom and gloom stories every day.

[CASSIEBEL]

I was on Zocor for several years (about 5 or 6) with no side effects at all. Then I started getting leg cramps. I stopped the Zocor and they went away.
Trouble is my cholesterol went from 171 to 283. My Doc then had me try a low dose of Crestor. after 1 month my cholesterol went back down to 170.

The leg cramps have come back now and I'm really upset. I believe in Cholesrol lowering meds. I believe they are life savers and I don't want to stop the Crestor. Diet and exercise don't help me much.

Does anyone know what the long term effects of leg cramps are? If they aren't life threating I will live with them and continue with Crestor.

I appreciate any feed back on this matter.

[Lulubells]

Bostonwnb.... I would be careful of who I am calling names as you could be joining us so called " self-appointed statin nannies " one day....... read their own web sights list of side effects or the one that came with your statin drug.. this one is called "Peripheral Neuropathy"... It is a common side effect that a lot of us have and rather you believe it or not, for some of us, quitting the drug does not end the problem and it IS listed as a side effect.

roachbug, yes, that is a very common side effect and as I said, it does not always go away when you quit the drug. I have been off of it since July of 2006 and my feet are constantly letting me know they are still effected although the real intense tingeling/itching seems to be letting up. the swelling/lumps are still there and haven't changed. My hands tingled like crazy but soon as I got off of the stuff, that stopped but it had just started doing it in my hands. I was in my 6th year of them when I got off and although I didn't realize it was the statin drug, I was having that swelling/lumps on my feet right away along with a whole lot of other problems.