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Reviewer: frank1182, 65-74 Male on Treatment for 2 to less than 5 years (Patient)
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unsure if i should continue. My doctor says to stay on it indefinitely.If I lose some weight and eat right I don't think i will need it. I understand it depletes CO Q 10 and messes up memory among a lot more side effects
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Reviewer: aimeelou, 45-54 Female on Treatment for less than 1 month (Patient)
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Two weeks after starting this drug I got severe neck pain. The pain went in two directions; up the back of my head and down into my shoulders and upper back and chest. I was exhausted, living in a fog and I was losing the ability to simply comprehend things. Stopped taking it and in two days the pain traveling up my head stopped, the exhaustion left me and comprehension came back. It took a few mo
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Reviewer: joy, 55-64 Male on Treatment for 2 to less than 5 years (Caregiver)
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husband has been taking zocor with amlodpine together for quite a few years. doc retired and new doc took him off immediatly and put him on pravastatin and HCTZ. he had no problems whatsoever with the zocor and now after only 7 days with new meds...severe pain in ankles, hip legs and feet. he said it wss so bad that it felt like his ankles were broken!!! called doc and told him we were going b
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Reviewer: blessed, 75 or over Female on Treatment for less than 1 month
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I have only been on the simvastatin for two weeks and already noticed my hair falling out, terrible headaches and muscle pain in neck and shoulder. I will go back to red yeast rice and COQ10,which is a statin but I think it is safer, at least I still had all my hair.
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Reviewer: 45-54 Female on Treatment for 10 years or more (Patient)
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