Hand pain symptoms and conditions

wrist pain, hand pain

I have been taking simvastatin since June 28, 2008. I am 44 years old and have always been majorly active with my 17 year old daughter. Recently I have become chronically fatigued so much as to want to go back to bed within 2-3 hours after I get up in the morning, (definitely not me). I have felt spaced out,depressed to the point of wanting to cry all the time, have severe back, hip, knee, leg, and hand pain. I go to pain management for my back and hip problems (past surgery), but the usual pain has been intensified over the last 2 months and I wasn't sure why, until i decided to check out the Simvastatin to see if it has made me put on a few pounds, and boy have my eyes been opened!!!!!!!!! I AM STOPPING THE MEDICATION IMMEDIATELY!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks to all who have spoken up, I wish I would of checked on this sooner!!!!! I'm calling my Dr. first thing in the morning!!!!!!!!!!!

By exhausted in Canton

I started taking 10mg of simvastatin in April and experienced awful hand pain. The pain was mainly in the joints of my fingers, I thought I had arthritis. I stopped taking it and the pain subsided. I began the medication again last week to see if that was the reason I was in such pain and within a few days my hands are hurting and I can hardly hold anything in my fingers. When I told my Doctor about it she didn't take me seriously but she will at my next visit.

Happy to see this website...I had also knee...wrist and hand pain...
I use 25 mg Cozaar a day.....now I stopped...and feeling much better.

Even 139-79 bloodpressure..............much better as with the medicine,HOW COME?

Are you guys for real? In reading through the side effects blogs it really reads like it is all the same person writing, maybe someone trying to beat up on the competition or something. It did scare me out of letting my 24 year old son take it for severe sinus infections, however and I just hope that two days of a 750mg dose per day doesn't show forth the negative effects in the days to come!! Please tell me it's not as bad as it sounds!

Shortly after starting the lipitor I developed hand pain mostly my fingers and especially my thumbs. I stopped the Lipitor and the pain in my hands and finger went away except for my thumbs. I have a trigger thumb which I can bend with a great deal of pain on my right hand and my left hand has now developed a trigger thumb as well. I am wondering if anyone else has experienced this type of side effect as my doctor feels it is just coincidence and that I have developed arthritis. I have not had any arthritic pain in my hands until now.

I AM A 53 YEAR OLD WOMAN, I STARTED LIPITOR IN JUNE 2007, AS OF NOW I HAVE AS FOLLOWS.
HORRIBLE WRIST PAIN,
LOWER THUMB PAIN,
KNEE PAIN,
FOOT AND ANKLE PAIN,
SHOULDER AND NECK PAIN,
SCIATIC PAIN,
HEADACHES,
BLURRED VISION,
MEMORY LOSS,
PALM OF HAND PAIN,
TINGLY FEELING IN HEAD, SOMETIMES GOES INTO MY EYE.
I AM ON 20MG OF LIPITOR AND I AM NOT TAKING THEM AFTER THIS DAY, I HAD TRIED THEM IN THE PAST BUT AT THE SAME TIME I WAS ON ZETIA SO WAS NOT SURE WHAT CAUSED WHAT, NOW I KNOW, IS THERE ANY BAD WITHDRAWAL SYMPTOMS IF YOU QUIT COLD TURKEY?

i am also taking lipitor i have legs pain also back pain and hand pain and swelling in my hands and arm

I have had every side effect mentioned in the warning label, this is day #7 and I am not going to take my dose or any others, because I have had burning stomach pain, including gas, throat constriction and pain, inability to eat, nausea, vomiting, and now yesterday presented with the severe hand pain in the hollow of my palms. I am an artist, and a secretary, I rely entirely on the ability in my hands, and if i lose that, I am out of business. This is a nasty little drug, and I would advise anyone anywhere not to take it.

I have experienced several bladder infections in the past year, since starting Fosamax. Never had any previously. Also having a great deal of foot and hand pain (esp. in mornings).

stabbing eye pain, horrible feet and hand pain (i stopped taking this drug a month ago and have a dr appt today