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- May 18, 2019
Horrible hives and anaphylaxis.
Sulfa drug reaction. It was so bizarre...I lost like 10 pounds in 2 days (I wasn't heavy to begin with, either...went from 135 to 125 pounds). I also got terrible muscle aches in my back, neck and legs that lasted almost 3 weeks. I had a terrible headache for a week and just felt fatigued and awful. I thought my symptoms were from the infection I had, but the doctor was alarmed when I mentioned them a week into a two week treatment and told me those are serious, but rare side effects and I should never take sulfa drugs again. Turns out, my mom and sister are both allergic to sulfa antibiotics as well.
Prednisone destroyed what little health my dad had left. Every bad side effect listed he had but we could NOT get the doctors listen to us. They insisted he had a condition that would cause a stroke, blindness etc. if he didn’t remain on it. A biopsy finally showed he did not have what they thought (for the life of me I can’t remember what it was called but it’s common in young kids and women in their 50’s not men in their 60’s) but they wanted him to keep taking it. My stepmom refused to give it to him but the damage was already done. I won’t get into the details but if you can take anything else, do.I have all the terrible side effects to prednisone, so I try to avoid that one as much as possible.
I once took meloxicam to deal with a particularly bad bout of costochondritis and I had the most horrible vivid disturbingly violent nightmares.
CODE BLUE was called! Happened after open heart surgery a few years ago. Cardiologist ordered a new med (Tikosyn) to regulate my heart and it went wild. Seriously close to dying.
Was it Crestor? Your's would just be yet another anecdotal horror story I've heard, in addition to my own experience.Kidney damage, caused by a statin med prescribed for borderline high cholesterol. The side effects were complicated by taking advil for the muscle cramping/wasting & pain caused by the statin.
Was in the care of a Nephrologist for 2 years until the damage was reversed & full kidney function returned.
As a result of that severe reaction, any kind of cholesterol med, advil & other NSAID’s or anti inflammatory meds are off my list permanently.
Was it Crestor? Your's would just be yet another anecdotal horror story I've heard, in addition to my own experience.