http://www.medications.com/effect/view/30447 I am 43 yr old woman and have been on simvastatin on and off for the past 3yrs, it's only since coming across this website that I have actually managed to find a connection between this awful drug and a whole heap of medical problems. The most recent course Tue, 13 May 2008 20:13:37 -0400 http://www.medications.com/effect/view/30447?item=8248 Mariee, I share your absolute anger. Mine is all similar to yours. In the end my flesh and skin pulled so agonising tight, I walked like an ape and could only walk for a few hundred mtres. I was on it for 4 yrs along with blood pressure and other crap medi http://www.medications.com/effect/view/30447?item=8248 Wed, 14 May 2008 07:29:33 -0400 http://www.medications.com/effect/view/30447?item=8259 http://www.medications.com/effect/view/30447?item=8259 Wed, 14 May 2008 07:54:54 -0400 http://www.medications.com/effect/view/30447?item=8260 Just a quick update; my doctor called me today after reading my letter, after asking for me, his first words were "I believe we are trying to kill you", this was a joke but I am not laughing and told him so. I also told him how furious I was about the whol http://www.medications.com/effect/view/30447?item=8260 Thu, 29 May 2008 07:06:04 -0400 http://www.medications.com/effect/view/30447?item=8689 I'm a 61 year old male who has lost most of the last year to severe pain and weakness also due to the side affects of simvastatin. I had been taking Lipitor with some of the same side affects, though to a lesser degree, which I dealt with by taking smaller http://www.medications.com/effect/view/30447?item=8689 Thu, 05 Jun 2008 18:12:17 -0400 http://www.medications.com/effect/view/30447?item=8949 I have a family member with a similar response to this medication. She is now off the meds but has severe muscle weakness and pain. Is there anything you have done to speed the recovery process? http://www.medications.com/effect/view/30447?item=8949 Thu, 05 Jun 2008 18:12:36 -0400 http://www.medications.com/effect/view/30447?item=8950 I have a family member with a similar response to this medication. She is now off the meds but has severe muscle weakness and pain. Is there anything you have done to speed the recovery process? http://www.medications.com/effect/view/30447?item=8950 Thu, 31 Jul 2008 09:16:22 -0400 http://www.medications.com/effect/view/30447?item=10629 Hi Marie, I hope you are starting to feel a little better. I had been on Simvastatin for 6 months and suffered the same symptons as you did. I was having to be pushed out of bed in the morning by my husband and had to be helped up from a chair like an old http://www.medications.com/effect/view/30447?item=10629 Fri, 01 Aug 2008 18:17:31 -0400 http://www.medications.com/effect/view/30447?item=10672 HI there, yes I am feeling better though still enraged with the incompetence of so-called medical people. I am currently fighting a battle with the health authorities, I complained and I am taking it all the way to the top, this cannot be allowed to go on, http://www.medications.com/effect/view/30447?item=10672 Sat, 06 Sep 2008 03:42:42 -0400 http://www.medications.com/effect/view/30447?item=12057 I am 49 yr old Male and taking the same medication and also having the same side effects like everybody does in this forum. Can we take action against th emaker of this drugs for not telling the patients about what exactly in this medication that makes us http://www.medications.com/effect/view/30447?item=12057 Sat, 15 Nov 2008 19:33:07 -0500 http://www.medications.com/effect/view/30447?item=14524 My husband is off this after 2 years.he has pain in muslces and they cant find anything wrong. hard to walk. he cant work etec will he get better or will it get worse http://www.medications.com/effect/view/30447?item=14524