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Q: Is there a statin medicine which would work as well as Crestor?
The price of prescription drugs is making a hole in my pocket. I heard there will not be a generic for Crestor until 2017. Does anyone know of a medicine which would have the same affect as Crestor ?
A: Crestor is a member of a class of drugs called statins aka HMG CoA reductase inhibitors. There are many statins on the market. They are all believed to be equally effective when used in equivalent doses. Pravastatin and Lovastatin are generic and currently on the $4 formulary at Walmart and Target. Higher doses will be required though to produce the same effect. For example, Crestor 5 mg is equivalent to 80 mg of Pravastatin and Lovastatin. Unfortunately the highest doses of these two is 80 mg, therefore if you are on more than 5 mg then you would need another type of statin. Other statins include Simvastatin (Zocor) and Atorvastatin (Lipitor), which are more potent. For example, Simvastatin 80 mg is equivalent to Crestor 10 mg. Neither is generic yet, but it may be cheaper for you. Discuss this with your doctor.
Q: What are the similarities and differences of Crestor and Lipitor?
My Doctor switched me to Crestor after an unsuccessful attempt to do without cholesterol medication. My latest cholesterol is 232 and the triglcerides are also unfavorable.
A: Crestor is a cholesterol-lowering medication that blocks the production of cholesterol (a type of fat) in the body. It works by reducing levels of “bad cholesterol (low-density lipoprotein, or LDL) and triglycerides in the blood, while increasing levels of “good cholesterol (high-density lipoprotein, or HDL).
Crestor is used to treat high cholesterol. Lowering your cholesterol can help prevent heart disease and hardening of the arteries, conditions that can lead to heart attack, stroke, and vascular disease.
Lipitor is used for lowering high cholesterol and triglycerides in certain patients. It also increases high-density lipoprotein (HDL, “good”) cholesterol levels. It is used along with an appropriate diet. It is also used in certain patients to reduce the risk of heart attack, stroke, blood vessel blockage, or chest pain caused by angina. It may be used to treat other conditions as determined by your doctor.
Lipitor is an HMG-CoA reductase inhibitor, also known as a “statin.” It works by reducing the production of certain fatty substances in the body, including cholesterol.
Q: How long should I stop Crestor before trying to fall pregnant?
I am taking Crestor 40mg for FH but would like to start a family. How long should I stop it for before we can try. Thanks
A: Crestor has a fairly short half life of 19 hours. Stop it the day or so before you start trying. Have a chat with your GP. Women should not get pregnant whilst taking Crestor and if you do become pregnant whilst taking it it, you must stop it immediately.
Q: Any one out there that takes crestor medication for cholesterol suffer any after effect?
I am taking crestor for my cholesterol and I have chest pains some times. I have been checked in and out of the hospital and am okey but still have this occuring chest pains. Stopped taking them for short periods of time and the pain gose away , I start again and there ther are again. Any one have the same problem?
A: Rosuvastatin calcium, Crestor has rather more side effects than the older statins and in my view though it is very potent I don’t think its risk/benefit or even cost is justified.
Your doctor should listen to you, however there are too many doctors who only listen to patients as a very last resort.
Changing to the longer established atorvastatin might solve the problem.
Q: Is it true that Crestor is more dangerous than lipitor both statin drugs?
I was reading about Crestor that it is more dangerous than Lipitor could this be true knowing that both are statins drugs?
A: Yes, it’s true. Here is an article about it:
http://www.medicationsense.com/articles/may_aug_05/crestor_headlines_053005.html
Q: What are the differences between Lipitor and Crestor?
Is it true that cholesterol is released in the urine of a patient taking Crestor?
A: Crestor is a bit harsher on the body than Lipitor (one reason my doctor won’t put me on Crestor)
Q: Can Crestor, Niaspan or Micardis cause problems in my sperm that could lead to birth defects?
My wife and I want to start trying to get pregnant but we don’t know if I should go off my prescription meds for a while before starting. And if I do go off of them, what would be a safe amount of time? I’m currently taking Crestor, Niaspan and Micardis.
A: Whoa. Before going off any of those meds you need to speak with your DR. I am assuming you are taking them for hypertension and cholesterol? If you stop these meds you are putting your own health at risk having uncontrolled hypertension.
I would really sit and have a meeting with your DR and discuss your concerns, and see if its safe for you to stop these meds.
You seem pretty smart that you are already thinking of the adverse effects that your meds could have. I’m sure your wife appreciates that…however Im sure she also wants a healthy hubby! Good luck and I hope you can find a solution with your DR.
Q: Is it dangerous to just stop using crestor?
I came off my birth control to have hormone tests done. Not even thinking, my husband and I forgot to use contraception. I am ovulating this week. Is it recommended that I stop taking Crestor immediately? I can’t believe we made such an irresponsible mistake.
A: What am I missing? As far as I know, Crestor doesn’t effect hormones.
Q: Why is Vitorin and Crestor still being sold when they do nothing to prevent a heart attack?
They do more to making a heart attack happen than to prevent it.
It has been all over the news for the last 2 weeks. It is something that everyone who is interested in good health would have read. Google Zetia Crestor dangers.
A: As I’ve asked in answer to your questions before, where’s the evidence?
What study showed that they:
1) Do nothing to prevent a heart attack.
– The ENHANCE study showed that the Zetia component of Vytorin didn’t do much. It said NOTHING about simvastatin or Crestor
2) “They do more to making a heart attack happen than to prevent it.”
To drag an old quote from the past, “Where’s the beef?”
>>addendum<<
The first THREE pages of the suggested Google reveal primarily opinion pieces & blogs. No scientific evidence.
Saying something doesn’t mean it’s true.
Q: What can I take for sinus/head cold if I’m on Crestor and Diovan?
I know you are not supposed to take certain medications if you are taking Diovan and Crestor. I have sinus congestion and a severe head cold. What can I take?
A: You can use any of the topical nasal decongestant drops or sprays that contain oxymetazoline or phenylephrine. Patients with high blood pressure should not take a systemic decongestant like Sudafed or Drixoral, they will raise your blood pressure.
EDIT: Coricidin HBP, an oral decongestant marketed to patients with high blood pressure, is safe to use but not very efficacious. I don’t recommend it.
Q: What do you think of FDA approval of Crestor?
for people with no health problems. Is this redefining pharmaceutical products as nutrition?
where are the “well designed studies” showing that a lack of crestor can lead to health problems?
Tony I
dbobo
good responses. where is the wolfpack?
This should be the area of greatest expertise for the group!
A: Unnatural compounds are not nutrition, though the argument could be made that the Crestor decision is treating it as a nutrient if it is to be prescribed to healthy people. No one ever became ill due to a deficiency in pharmaceutical drugs.
I think that the decision is one of the more blatant decisions among a great many wrong decisions that demonstrates that the FDA is merely the lackeys for Big Pharma and instead of serving the health of the citizens instead serves to protect and increase the profits of the drug companies at the expense of the rest of us. Using unnatural compounds with proven side effect which treat symptoms by forcing the body to function abnormally, which perfectly describes Crestor with its CoQ10 suppressing actions, is questionable in the first place. It is absurd when it comes to doing so with healthy people.
Now, I am sure we are going to hear about how the FDA wouldn’t approve it unless it were proven to be safe and that the benefits outweighed any risks and be told that studies vouched for its safety and effectiveness and blah, blah, blah . . . but weren’t we told the same thing about Vioxx? Why in Hades would anyone want to give a healthy person something with any risks to begin with?
I note that the maker of Crestor is none other than AstraZeneca, whose parent company, Imperial Chemicals, infamously started the Breast Cancer Awareness month deception to turn attention away from the cancer causing toxins they and others who joined the bandwagon produced.
For an eye-opening look at AstraZeneca, do a search for “AstraZeneca scandals”. My oh my – sex for studies and much more. What a band of happy thieves we have enriching themselves at the expense of our health.
I rank the Crestor decision right up there with the ones on Vioxx, Avandia, Fosamax and Aspartame and the decision of the FDA to go after Washington cherry growers for daring to imply that eating cherries might have health benefits. And I predict that just like Vioxx and other recalled drugs it will be one of several others which will ultimately be reversed or recalled after the body count has mounted sufficiently high – but not until many billions in profits has been raked in by one of the FDA’s true lords and masters.
“The FDA ‘protects’ the big drug companies and are subsequently rewarded, and using the government’s police powers they attack those who threaten the big drug companies. People think that the FDA is protecting them.
It isn’t.
What the FDA is doing and what the public thinks it is doing are as different as night and day.”
Dr. Herbert Ley
Former U.S. FDA Commissioner
Q: Any information concerning drama over prescription meds Paxil, Rofecoxib and Crestor?
I need to know for a paper if anybody has any information on how much money was made from selling the drugs Paxil, Rofecoxib and Crestor before 2004 and also how much money was paid out due to lawsuits and fines?? Any information would be greatly appreciated!!
A: Lawsuits and fines are hard to track, as out of court settlements with non-disclosure agreements keep the public in the dark.
The following Drug Topics link for brand drugs is not exactly what you are looking for, there is also a top 200 generic drug list they make as well,
http://drugtopics.modernmedicine.com/drugtopics/content/printContentPopup.jsp?id=109800
Q: How long before muscle side effects start after taking Crestor?
I feel stiff and achy, but I don’t know if it started a week ago, two weeks or even earlier.
A: I am on Crestor (my 3rd try of statins). I have a really bad rash from, what I believe is the Crestor. I stopped taking it for 2 days and the rash abated quickly. Then my heart doc said, since my quadruple bypass, that I have to be on a statin like Crestor…or Lipitor. As soon as I started back on the Crestor, the rash is getting worse now. So now I have to go see a dawg gone skin specialist to get tested. I believe side effects can appear very quickly. Go see your doctor and let me know what is going on. Good luck…
Q: What doses of statins were given in the recent Crestor study?
Statins were given to men over 50 and women over 60 who did not have high cholesterol, but high CRP levels. What dosage was found to prevent heart attacks and strokes?
A: It was Crestor 20mg vs placebo.
I’d bet that other statins will have the same effect.
Q: Side effects of Crestor? Have been getting stiff joints and feel like I ache all over. I stopped the medicine?
and it has been about 48 hours, the symptoms have greatly lessened. Had the same problem with Lipitor, so was put on Crestor, it was okay for a while. ANybody else experienced this with the cholesterol lowering meds?
A: You asked for the side effects of Crestor. Crestor – rosuvastatin calcium – you will find details at the following link
http://www.healthy-heart-guide.com/
crestor-side-effects.html
You are no doubt aware that crestor is a statin and that statins are used mainly for lowering cholesterol. This is a very debatable procedure, I add a link with details of this subject
http://qjmed.oxfordjournals.org/
cgi/content/full/96/12/927?ijkey=
172mwKXqzgmtE&keytype=ref
Hope this helps
matador 89
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