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Charlie — Mon, 04 Jan 2016 14:58:41 -0000

I would to ive snapped 3 tendens after taking simvastsatian have damage for life i cant find a lawyer to take the case so sad............

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James Clark — Mon, 28 Oct 2013 12:15:26 -0000

I've been taking vytorin 10-80 for many years, and now I can hardly walk. How do I find out if vytorin did this to me?

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Susie Sapp — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 04:14:32 -0000

I also take 40 mg per day of Simvastatin. Been taking it for many years now. I notice some aching in my bones and muscles now and then and wonder what symptoms are for this rhabdomyalisis. My mother also took Simvastatin and she would ache so much they finally took her off of the meds. She can't take any of the statins. I don't have the aches like she did, but I've been taking it a long time and it could be that some of the things going on with me are signs of this and I don't even realize it. I know I've taken Simvastatin since at least 2005, might be a bit before. It's now 2013, so it's been quite awhile now.

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Peggygreene34 — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 03:31:19 -0000

My husband was taking 40MG but had continued his daily niacin of 500MG. Even after stopping the medication, he became so debilitated he could walk only a few steps. He was so anorexic that his body was devouring itself. He had chills and sweats; he stank even after showering, and he was in agony. His feet swelled so badly that even his sandals could not be worn. I saw the description of rhabdomyalisis but it terrified me so I tried everything I could think of to get him help. I didn't want to believe he was in muscular skeletal failure.

The doctors were confused because his thyroid and red blood counts were so low. They chased low thyroid, leukemia and pernicious anemia. I ripped out the new teflon coated stainmaster carpeting and installed tile. I looked into everything for mold or anything toxic or noxious. Frantically we tried to get him into see other specialists.

Finally, I talked him into stopping the medication when every symptom that I tracked on the internet pointed back to Merck and simvastatin. Convincing him was difficult; he thought he had arthritis, and he couldn't believe that simvastatin could be the problem. With our doctor's blessing, I found herbal anti-inflammatory capsules: Zyflamend, Cats Claw, etc. and the redness and swellings left his wrists and fingers. The agony in the rest of his body remained, and nothing I cooked could coax him to eat more than 3 or 4 bites. He was slipping away from me, confused and without the strength to talk or think. He was too weak to focus his eyes, and a recent MRI indicated a stroke at some point. After 50 years of marriage, I can imagine no other time for that stroke..

A year ago on July 4th, I took him to a Univeristy medical Center. It was that or Mayo Clinic in Phoenix. I was afraid he would not live to get there. We both knew he was dying. He was so depressed. The family was gathering. The diagnostic clinic there thought it to be polymalgia rheumatica. I had run across that as a possible simvastatin side effect, but for higher doses.of the medicine. I had long since taken away the niacin. Protein in his kidneys was mentioned. Prednisone was administered, and my husband began to eat again. Our primary doctor called to apologize on missing the diagnosis. None of the doctors would buy into simvastatin as a possible culprit.

This consumed a year and a half of our lives. I've spent a fortune on super nutrition to rebuild the protein he lost, and slowly he is still working his way back almost to where he was when he decided to try the drug to lower his cholesterol. Now we find that this polymyalgia can take up to 5 years or more to cure or however one terms it. Nobody really knows what it is yet, not even Mayo. It wasn't exactly what we had in mind for our golden years.

A pox on the house of Merck.

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68angela Lee — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 14:55:57 -0000

my husband was only taking 20mg of zocor and now has rhabdomyolysis he is already loosing all his muscles and no attorney will take his case just because it wasnt the 80mg

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Kassner — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 12:06:44 -0000

My father had ALL the systems and died May 15th due to kidney/liver failure.

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Joachim K. — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 07:45:50 -0000

I stopped 2 years ago when the pain and cramps in my legs were unbearable.

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Jack Weigel — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 21:17:42 -0000

I stoped taking Zocor 20 mil 5 years ago. I could not even smile,due to cramps. My liver was so far off that the numbers were off the chart. I had cramps in my ribs,legs,hands,and pain. After suffering for many years it's time someone help.

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Michael Eisert — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 11:38:47 -0000

I took zocor or simvastatin 40 mg tablets and developed spasms in my upper legs and charlie horses in my lower legs. I have now developed incontinence and have a preliminary diagnotious of als

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William O'Brien — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 08:31:10 -0000

I damn died from the effects of 80mg Zocor in July. Is any action being done to reimburse me for the loss of work and over 6000.00 I paid out of my pocket for medical care not to mention the stress this problem has caused me.

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William O'Brien — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 06:48:26 -0000

I almost died from the effects of Zocor. I spent 8 days on IV therapy to clear my problems with my liver and kidneys I also could not use my legs and started physical therapy on my 8th day of my hospital stay. Now I am starting to receive bills fom seven doctors and the hospital and dont know how I am going pay them.

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Edith — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 11:50:42 -0000

I would like compensation for all my side effects I lost 10 years off my life