Crestor comes as a pill to take by mouth. It is usually taken just the once a day with or without food. Consume Crestor at around the same time every day. Follow the instructions on your prescription label vigilantly, and ask your doctor or pharmacist to explain any part you do not understand.

Take Crestor exactly as intended. Do not take more or less of it or take it more often than prescribed by your doctor.

Your doctor may begin you on a low dose of Crestor and slowly increase your dose.

Crestor manages high cholesterol but does not heal it. It may take 4 weeks or longer before you feel the full benefit of Crestor. Carry on taking Crestor even if you feel well. Do not stop taking Crestor without talking to your doctor.

This prescription may be prescribed for other uses; ask your doctor or pharmacist for more info.

Notify your doctor and pharmacist if you are allergic to Crestor or any other medications.

Notify your doctor and pharmacist what prescription drug and over-the-counter medications, vitamins, nutritional supplements, and herbal products you are taking. Be sure to mention any of the following: anticoagulants ('blood thinners') such as warfarin (Coumadin); cimetidine (Tagamet); cyclosporine (Neoral, Sandimmune); ketoconazole (Nizoral); and other medications for high cholesterol such as clofibrate (Atromid-S), fenofibrate (Tricor), gemfibrozil (Lopid), and niacin (Niaspan, Niacor). Your doctor may require altering the doses of your medications or monitoring you cautiously for side effects.

If you are consuming antacids, take them at least 2 hours after Crestor.

Notify your doctor if you drink large amounts of alcohol, if you have a family history of high cholesterol, and if you have or have ever had diabetes; seizures; a severe infection; a heart attack; a stroke; low blood pressure; or liver, kidney, or thyroid disease.

Notify your doctor if you are pregnant or plan to become pregnant. If you become pregnant while taking Crestor, call your doctor immediately. Do not breastfeed while taking Crestor.

If you are having surgery, including dental surgery, tell the doctor or dentist that you are taking rosuvastatin.

Inquire your doctor about the safe use of alcoholic beverages while you are taking Crestor. Alcohol can increase the risk that you will experience serious side effects.

Notify to your doctor about an exercise program that is right for you. Regular exercise will increase the effect of Crestor.

Consume a low-cholesterol, low-fat diet. This kind of diet includes cottage cheese, fat-free milk, fish (not canned in oil), vegetables, poultry, egg whites, and polyunsaturated oils and margarines (corn, safflower, canola, and soybean oils).

Keep away from foods with excess fat in them such as meat (especially liver and fatty meat), egg yolks, whole milk, cream, butter, shortening, lard, pastries, cakes, cookies, gravy, peanut butter, chocolate, olives, potato chips, coconut, cheese (other than cottage cheese), coconut oil, palm oil, and fried foods.

In case if you missed a dose, take the missed dose as soon as you remember it. Nevertheless, if it is almost time for the next dose, skip the missed dose and continue your regular dosing schedule. Do not take a double dose of crestor to make up for a missed one.

Crestor may cause side effects. Notify your doctor if any of these symptoms are rigorous or do not go away, such as constipation, stomach pain, upset stomach, heartburn, diarrhea, headache, weakness, dizziness, difficulty falling asleep or staying asleep, depression, back pain,joint pain or weakness, cough.

Some side effects can be serious. The following symptoms are uncommon, but if you experience any of them, call your doctor immediately in cases like muscle pain, tenderness, or weakness, joint pain, fever, sore throat, chills, or other signs of infection, flu-like symptoms, rash, swelling of the hands, feet, ankles, or lower legs, chest pain, in upper right part of stomach, yellowing of the skin or eyes, dark urine, numbness or tingling in fingers or toes, painful or difficult urination, infection.

Keep Crestor in the bottle it came in, tightly closed, and out of reach of children.

Store crestor at room temperature and not here from excess heat and moisture (not in the bathroom).

Discard away any medication that is outdated or no longer needed. Converse to your pharmacist about the proper disposal of your medication.

Keep all schedules with your doctor and the laboratory. Your doctor will order definite lab tests to check your body's response to rosuvastatin.

Do not let anybody else take your pills. Ask your pharmacist any questions you have about refilling your recommendation.