Crestor Serious Side Effects
Crestor is
a drug in the category of a class of cholesterol lowering drugs
regularly referred to as “statins”. It is a medication identified as
having serious and occasional fatal side effects.
In
recent times, an FDA associate director of drug safety gave a Crestor
warning which suggested that Crestor be recalled due to the occurrences
of serious Crestor side effects. Over the last few years experts have
discovered more information about the serious side effects of Crestor.
As a result, there have been a number of Crestor warnings issued to
inform and educate the public as well as doctors about the serious
adverse Crestor side effects.
Due to the gravity of
Crestor side effects, many experts agree that the FDA should commence a
Crestor recall. Statin type drugs have a record of causing severe side
effects.
Crestor, the FDA and Crestor Side Effects
The
medicine Crestor was approved in the U.S. in August of 2003. The
approval was based on an assessment of a broad clinical database which
involved about 12,000 patients. Since then, the FDA has received
reports about many patients experiencing Crestor side effects such as
Rhabdomyolysis in association with Crestor. A number of patients using
Crestor have been reported to have developed deterioration in their
muscles. This condition is recognized as Rhabdomyolysis. Several others
have been reported to have suffered from kidney damage or failure.
There has also been a report of the death of woman due to taking
Crestor.
Crestor is the only statin drug that known to have a side effect such as Rhabdomyolysis in pre-approval clinical tests.
If
you or a loved one has taken Crestor and is now experiencing adverse
side effects, it is important that you contact your doctor and maybe
even your attorney as soon as possible.