Crestor (Rosuvastatin)

What is Crestor for?

Please note:  To buy Crestor tablets online, you MUST have already been diagnosed with high cholesterol, have been prescribed this medication, and had a review with your doctor in the last 12 months.

Crestor (Rosuvastatin) is an effective prescription-only medicine that belongs to a group of medicines called Statins, or HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors. Along with diet changes, Crestor lowers low-density lipoprotein (LD), also known as 'bad' cholesterol, whilst increasing high-density lipoprotein (HDL), also known as 'good' cholesterol.

Crestor can also slow the progression of atherosclerosis in adults with high cholesterol, as part of a treatment plan to lower cholesterol to goal.

If you have already been prescribed Crestor (Rosuvastatin) from your own doctor and need a repeat supply – for example you cannot get a doctor’s appointment – you may be suitable to buy Rosuvastatin online following a simple online consultation with next day delivery.

How does Crestor work?

After you buy Crestor online, it lowers the levels of LDL in the blood, and it increases the levels of HDL. By doing this, it helps prevent coronary artery disease and other cardiovascular diseases, such as heart attack, stroke, and angina.

Most of the cholesterol in your blood is made in the liver. Crestor works by reducing it in 2 ways: Crestor blocks an enzyme in the liver, causing the liver to make less cholesterol, and Crestor increases the uptake and breakdown by the liver of cholesterol already in the blood.

You may have already been prescribed a Statin from your own doctor such as Crestor, in which case you could be suitable to buy Crestor UK from Medical Specialists®.

How to take Crestor

When you buy Crestor (Rosuvastatin) online, the usual starting dose of Crestor for adults is 1 tablet taken daily, or as directed by your doctor.

Take Crestor exactly as prescribed by your doctor. Do not change your dose or stop Crestor without talking to your doctor, even if you are feeling well. Your doctor may do blood tests to check your cholesterol levels before and during your treatment with Crestor. Your dose of Crestor may be changed based on these blood test results. Crestor can be taken at any time of day, with or without food. Swallow the tablets whole.

Your doctor will usually start you on a cholesterol-lowering diet before giving you Crestor. Stay on this diet when you take Crestor.

Wait at least 2 hours after taking Crestor to take an antacid that contains a combination of aluminium and magnesium hydroxide. If you miss a dose of Crestor, take it as soon as you remember. However, do not take 2 doses of Crestor within 12 hours of each other. If you take too much Crestor or overdose, call your health care professional or Poison Control Centre right away or, go to the nearest emergency room

What are the possible side effects of Crestor?

Side effects are rare, and most people don’t get any. Possible side effects may vary from one person to the next, as with any medication. You should always read the manufacturer’s Patient Information Leaflet (PIL) before taking this or any other medication.

This will give you important instructions on how and when to use the medication, as well as any possible side effects of the drug.

How we package your order

Your medication is placed inside a plain delivery box* for protection, then sealed inside a special tamper-proof Royal Mail envelope before being dispatched from our in-house pharmacy.

• Discreet plain packaging / No mention of medication
• Our minimum sized delivery box* to protect the medication in transit is: W - 18cm, H - 6.5cm, D - 8.5cm
• Royal Mail Tracked 24 or 48 hr (UK addresses)
• Royal Mail Special Delivery Before 1pm (UK addresses)
• Royal Mail Local Collect (UK addresses)
• Royal Mail International Signed For (Overseas addresses)
• Some delivery types will require you to sign for the parcel
• Some delivery types will require you to show Photo ID for the parcel
• Find out more information about delivery types here