TriCor and diet

My husband has been taking TriCor 145 for app. 1 year. He is a marathon runner with no history of heart or other health problems. When his doctor first prescribed TriCor, my husband was asymptomatic. His doctor prescribed TriCor to help raise his good cholesterol levels after a brief attempt to correct HDL levels through diet and exercise. Recently, he was hospitalized for three days due to high blood pressure (136/100--no previous problems with blood pressure) and slow heart rate of 37 BPM. His primary care physician has failed to return numerous calls to discuss titrating him off TriCor so he will discontinue use on his own.

I was put on Tricor and it was a disaster. Goal was to lower LDL and I had already had negative results with Zocor (neuropathy). After a a couple of weeks I developed low back pain (near the kidneys), followed by excessive urination and related pain. Also right hip pain. I went off the drug and still had ongoing pain in my right hip and groin. Low back pain, knee pain and neuropathy in my feet. I'm a type 2 diabetic in good control and had bypass surgery so they wanted my LDL cholesterol lower than the 73 I achieved with diet alone.

I also experienced foot drop in right ankle with no strength in heel/ankle and neuropathy in both sides of my ankle. Three weeks after going off the drug I am just now recovering but continue to have hip pain, low back pain, 50% less strength in ankle. Also groin and testicle pain. I subsequently read that being on a blood thinner like Warfarin may be contraindicated which my Cardiologist did not mention.