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  1. high ck enzyme level 14th September 2006
    ... had a heart attack a year ago.The doctor put him on mevacor for high cholestrol.He had blood work done and it ... ck level to be 568, his doctor told him to stop the mevacor and he will be retested in 2 weeks to see if it comes...

  2. high ck enzymes 13th September 2006
    ... husband had a heart attack a year ago and was put on mevacor .He just had bloodwork done and his ck level is 569 ... so they told him to stop taking the mevacor and they want to retest in 2 weeks.Does anyone know...

  3. Which one of these drugs is causing this?? 22nd July 2006
    ... causing my problems. I remember my roommate being put on Mevacor and later on, Lipitor and after about 6 months or...

  4. Lipitor and high bloodpressure 23rd December 2003
    ... also a minimum dose of the cholestorol lowering drug Mevacor for over a year with no bad side effects. Recently ... my doctor changed me from Mevacor to Lipitor. Within a few days, my pressure shot up...

  5. Doctors are not pshyologists!!!!! 10th October 2002
    ... active ingredient present in the prescription drug Mevacor , intended to reduce serum cholesterol levels. Last ... Red Yeast Rice has been around much longer than Mevacor . So basically what you're trying to tell me is that...

Addison's Disease board
  1. Need help understanding... 14th May 2008
    ... deficient anemia. She had been taking Trental and Mevacor but stopped taking those when she started to feel...

Aging Issues board
  1. Ache ALL OVER if Poked-Try This 2nd January 2004
    ... Thank you very much Elliejon; no, I'm not on Lipitor, Mevacor ; I don't trust, generally speaking, any drug advertised...

Anxiety board
  1. Heart anxiety 1st August 2006
    ... yeast rice (supposedly a natural statin equivalent of mevacor ). I'm back on a lower dose of the red yeat rice and...

Cancer board
  1. Vigilante!! I need some advice please!! 25th February 2001
    ... from certain death. the combination of clinoril and mevacor (or another cholesterol drug) causes tumor cell suicide...

  2. BILE DUCT CANCER 23rd January 2001
    ... statin cholesterol drug. would give clinoril 400bid and mevacor 40bid. also look into antifarnesylation agents such...
    ... protocol which provide: a) how much of clinoril, mevacor , arglabin, 2ME2 and oral copper have to be assumed ... ? b) how frequent clinoril, mevacor , arglabin, 2ME2 and oral copper are to be assumed...
    ... I can send the clinoril and mevacor . would use clinoril 400bid and mevacor 40bid. not...

High & Low Blood Pressure board
  1. BYSTOLIC (Nebivolol) - New Hypertensive(Beta Blocker)Medication 29th January 2008
    ... The Statins I mentioned are all approved FDA drugs. MEVACOR (Lovastatin) was the very first statin drug on the...

High Cholesterol board
  1. question regarding ryr to lovastatin 11th October 2007
    ... Hindy, keep in mind that "Lovastatin" (a.k.a. Mevacor ) the prescription drug manufactured by Merck is not...

  2. Anyone successfully lower cholesterol by diet and exercise? 16th August 2007
    ... Funny, a few years ago they were thinking to allow Mevacor or Pravachol as over the counter drugs! On diet...

  3. I'm new here with high cholesterol - please help 10th July 2007
    ... opposed to a chemically or man-made produced one in Mevacor . Mevacor is the popular statin drug with the active ... ingredient "lovastatin". The lovastatin in Mevacor is highly purified and concentrated while the ingredients ... less than 2.4 mg. of lovastatin whereas tablets of Mevacor contain 10 mg. or more. RYR has been used in China...

  4. Zocor side effects 1st July 2007
    ... I started on Mevacor back in March; 3 wks. into it, my feet and legs hurt...

  5. anyone experience side effects from lovastatin? 27th June 2007
    ... I have been on lovastatin ( Mevacor ) for 9 months with no side effects. It is the weakest...

  6. Should I take Lipitor? 17th May 2007
    ... long time, the first one, Mercks's lovastatin, called MEVACOR , only got FDA approval in 1987. It was years afterward...

  7. Genetically High Cholesterol? 19th April 2007
    ... I got a total reading of 575 and my Dr. put me on Mevacor . Took that for a month and hated it ... it made me...

  8. Slowly dying on Lipitor 26th November 2006
    ... never heard anyone experience it. My father was on Mevacor , I think it was doing a number on him too. He was...
    ... never heard anyone experience it. My father was on Mevacor , I think it was doing a number on him too. He was...
    ... never heard anyone experience it. My father was on Mevacor , I think it was doing a number on him too. He was...
    ... never heard anyone experience it. My father was on Mevacor , I think it was doing a number on him too. He was ... fasmily trait, this is caused from Statins -- Lipitor, Mevacor , Zocor, Crestor, all statins. I'm interested in...
    ... fasmily trait, this is caused from Statins -- Lipitor, Mevacor , Zocor, Crestor, all statins. I'm interested in...

  9. opinions sought-Do I need statin? 18th September 2006
    ... strength. One 5 mg of Lip. is equivalent of 10 mg of Mevacor or Zokor and so on. This info came from an article...

  10. Anyone know of some Natural Remedies? 7th September 2006
    ... Apparently red yeat rice is the same ingredient as in Mevacor ....

  11. Plain Yeast vs. Red Yeast Rice 5th April 2006
    ... naturally occurring product similar to the statin in Mevacor . The web sources informed me there are a variety...

  12. Statins and colorectal cancer 8th June 2004
    ... marketed under names such as Crestor, Lescol, Lipitor, Mevacor , Pravachol, and Zocor, are a type of drug commonly...

  13. Statin-Induced Cardiomyopathy 7th June 2004
    ... mentioned in an earlier post, I was a participant in the Mevacor study. It turned out I was on Mevacor and it significantly ... learned I was one of the patients that was receiving Mevacor and not the placebo, I received two months supply ... each tablet cost $9.00 and the Army would not make Mevacor a part of its formulary until patients tried other...

  14. Lipitor Necessary?? 4th June 2004
    ... the patients in the study who was receiving 20mg of Mevacor . All of my levels dropped well into normal and below ... . By 1994, after being off of Mevacor for seven years, my cholesterol levels went up to...

  15. The Lipitor Dilemma 4th June 2004
    ... reminder is that the statin drugs such as lipitor and mevacor do not lower lipoprotein (a) levels and there has...

  16. Policosanol vs Red Yeast Rice 3rd June 2004
    ... ingredients in RYR are actually the same thing used in Mevacor but somehow formulated differently so it is without...

  17. Red Yeast Rice.Riz-Strol Questions: HELP 8th April 2004
    ... expect from a low dose of the popular cholesterol drug, Mevacor Red yeast extract contains a number of cholesterol ... them lovastatin, the same active ingredient that's in Mevacor . Other red yeast compounds are similar to those in...

  18. Lab results - I'm confused! 18th December 2003
    ... hdl because it runs in my family. My mother takes Mevacor and her sister has to take double strenght Pravachol...

Lupus board
  1. Hey Dana!! Rheumy says no to Lupus!! 17th December 2003
    ... Well, I have read that SOME lipid lowering drugs (ex/ Mevacor , Pravachol, Lopid) can cause ANA to be false positive...

Menopause board
  1. Black Cohosh, Evening Primrose, is it safe? 28th July 2004
    ... between Black Cohash and Lipitor. On switching from Mevacor to Lipitor on 11/20/2002 I was also started on Black...

Neuropathy board
  1. Any advice on Specialists and/or Hospitals 9th October 2008
    ... Perhexiline # Drugs to lower cholesterol- Lovastatin ( Mevacor ), Indapamid (Lozol], Gemfibrozil (Lopid) # Drugs...

Panic Disorders board
  1. OK guys (and gals) I need some input here 12th August 2004
    ... though) Glucophage - 500mg twice a day (for diabetes) Mevacor - 40mg once a day (for high cholesterol) Inderal...

Sexual Health - Men board
  1. High Cholestrol-ED? 31st March 2007
    ... statins), it should improve your condition. I take Mevacor (generic Lovastatin) along with a Beta Blocker HBP ... drug. Mevacor is an older Merck drug that is not as strong as Zocor...

Thyroid Disorders board
  1. Has anyone got the cholesterol prob with hypo? (metabolic disorder) 17th July 2004
    ... was 468 . I am 24 and a female. So they put me on mevacor along with my levrothyroid, and now my cholestrol...

  2. Snobunnies 23rd December 2002
    ... You mentiond something in a post this summer about mevacor , and zocor, and were afraid to take the new med pravacol...

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