Drug details

Lescol XL (fluvastatin sodium extended-release tablets)

type of Lipid-Lowering Agents, Statins, HMG-CoA Reductase Inhibitors

Lescol XL (fluvastatin sodium) is an HMG-C oA reductase inhibitor (statin) indicated as an adjunctive therapy to diet to reduce elevated TC, LDL-C, Apo B, and TG, and to increase HDL-C in adult patients with primary hypercholesterolemia and mixed dyslipidemia; reduce elevated TC, LDL-C, and Apo B levels in boys and post-menarchal girls, 10 to 16 years of age, with heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia after failing an adequate trial of diet therapy; reduce the risk of undergoing revascularization procedures in patients with clinically evident coronary heart disease (CHD); and to slow the progression of atherosclerosis in patients with CHD. Lescol XL is available as a generic.

This drug may have the following side effects:

• nausea
• headache,
• abdominal pain, and
• muscle pain,
• indigestion/heartburn,

The following drugs are related to Lescol XL, either as a replacement or used together:

• Lipitor (atorvastatin calcium)
• Questran (cholestyramine)
• Prevalite (cholestyramine for oral suspension, us)
• Welchol (colesevelam hcl)
• Colestid (colestipol)
• Crestor (rosuvastatin calcium)
• Lescol (fluvastatin sodium)
• Leqvio (inclisiran injection)
• Livalo (pitavastatin)
• Pravachol (pravastatin sodium)
• Roszet (rosuvastatin and ezetimibe tablets)
• Zocor (simvastatin)