Newark, NJFull disclosure: I am a Crestor man, but not without reservation. My doctor put me on Crestor last year due to high levels of LDL cholesterol, the so-called bad boy of the cholesterol world. I was on a generic version of Crestor briefly, but quickly went back to the actual Crestor brand after losing some gains in my good cholesterol levels while on the less-expensive alternative. Again, this wasn’t my idea. My doctor is insisting I take this stuff. I’d rather not. I’ve read all about the Crestor side effects.
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.
The pearl of wisdom stemming from the learned syndicated columnist, in general terms: a slight increase in LDL, which begat a slight increased risk for cardiovascular events but coupled with a very high capacity for exercise and good energy, then how bad is a slightly elevated LDL?
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?
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