Just started Welchol after trying Lipitor & others. Have now deve...

Unfortunately, I cannot help you with your question - if Welchol can cause dizziness and pain.

But maybe I can help you with some other issues.

Since 2003 I have been searching for information on different drugs.

Not because I, myself, has been prescribed them.

I have had people close to me who were on a lot of different medications and I realised that nothing good came out of it.

One of the medications that all 3 had was the statin Simvastatin (Zocor).

So therefore I know a lot of statins and it`s side effects.

It seems as if your new medication is of a completely different group.

But now I am going to tell you something which you don´t know.

There are doctors and researchers who disagree with the cholesterol hypotesis, but they have a hard time getting out their message.

I found it in 2004 when I was looking for information about Zocor (my mother).

Since then I have discovered a lot of webb sites and books and I think it`s a very good idea to educate your self on these issues.

It´s the pharmaceutical companies that have the money.

Most of the time they also perform the studies or pay for them.

So far, they have had the right to choose what parts to publish and so on.

A good book to start with to get an overview is "Overdosed America" by John Abramson.

Another interesting book is "The truth about the drug companies" by Marcia Angell.

These books are very different - both very intersting.

When it comes to the cholesterol issue:

The great cholesterol Con (Antony Colpo)

Book with the same title (Malcolm Kendrick)

The Cholesterol Myths (Uffe Ravnskov)

Lipitor - thief of memory (Duane Graveline)

He has also written another book.

Please visit:

www.ravnskov.nu

www.thincs.org

www.spacedoc.net

www.statinalert.org

Search for "Stopped our statins" on Google and you will find this site with lots of information.

I have absolutely nothing to do with the pharmaceutical, health or book industry.

I am a Swedish lady in her sixties who became very angry when I saw the suffering in people close to me and that made me turn to the Internet.

There I found a lot of information and got to know about all these books which I had no idea about.

Two of my relatives are dead but my mother is still alive. I would not be surprised if some medical problems that she has is from her Zocor-years!

I have read a lot on welchol and what it has done. I must say that I have been on welchol now for three yr.
The only thing I have seen it do is to lower my cholesterol from 200 to 135 along with zocor.
I do have some pain in my right foot and hands having numbness in my fingers plus not sleeping long enough.
I stopped taking welchol for 4 weeks hoping that something would change, well something did my cholesterol went up to 208.
My Dr says there are little side effects with welchol and for me I have to agree with that.
I can't get over so many people finding that welchol is having the side effects I read about.
Maybe it is true. I don't know. As for me I will continue to take welchol.
Good luck to you all
Wilbur
In SC

Today I googled the side effects of Welchor because I started to take this medication for the first time last night. I took 3 tablets then and 3 tablets this am.

Today is a very important day for me because it's Tuesday. I have the privilege of babysitting for my 15 month old grandson three days/week and today is first day of our week. I took him to the local park and playground at about 9:00am and by 9:45am, while leaning on and bouncing him on the rocking teeter-tooter, I became suddenly dizzy and disoriented. I could barely lift him down from the ride. The child immediately ran off to another climbing/sliding station and I stumbled along after him almost falling. I couldn't walk a straight line. I had to lean on the station to keep from falling. I had to ask another nanny to help me contain the child and get him to my car and car seat. She waited with me until the dizziness passed and I drove back to my son's house praying it wouldn't happen again. I can still feel the virtigo two hous later.

I see my experience as having disaster potential for both my grandson and myself! I have had no other such episodes before today or before Welchor.

My point is two fold.

1: Why wasn't I warned this could happen?
This was a sample bottle from the doctor's cabinet with no crimp, written instructions or warnings. Even though I usually google a new medication, I was told that this medication does not interact with any other meds I'm taking or effect the foods I eat. In fact, when he told me to start with 3 tabs/dose, I asked if I shouldn't start lower and work up to three. He said I could, but it wasn't neccessary and encouraged me to begin with three tabs.
So I did!

2: I do have high cholesterol and agree I need to bring my numbers down, preferably through weight loss and diet. In my medical past, I have had side effects get out of hand with other drugs and have decided that some are just to risky to take. I am an 8 year Breast Cancer survivor and have some minimal heart damage from the chemo drugs. I got severe migrains from Tamoxifen and had to be taken off Aromasin beause it affected my joints so much I needed assistance getting out of bed and walking in the morning.
So while dizziness it not so painful as some other effects, why in heaven's name, would I want to risk my safety or, more importantly, the safety of others such as my precious grandson?

I am 66 years old, a houswife and the mother of four grown boys. Three of whom were born Ceaserean. I have had several other surgeries since then. I am very careful about my lifestyle and diet. I jog or power walk 3-5 miles per day, three times a week. I weight train with dumbells and do warmup/stretching routines on those same days. I look and feel much younger when I do these things and have been doing them most of my adult life (when well enough)! My weight is good and my blood pressure is under controlI with 20mgs of Benicar. I had the "Lifeline" arterery and risk test done this year on my cariotid, aortic and arteries of my arms and ankels. The results were excellent, showing no significant buildup at this time.
Ofcourse, I wouldn't want to, but, if I should have a heart attack or stroke at this point, then it might just be God's will. Or could it be the stupidity of humans and pharmaceutical companies who think they now know how to our control fate.

Very offened in Virginia, Rose