@ruth36 Sadly, I know exactly what you are feeling! To start my afib treatment was to take coumadin bc Eliquest was $550 per month and I liked the thought of having my blood checked while on a blood thinner. Eventually, I found generic Eliquest out of Canada for $79 per month, so I started it. Fairly soon after starting it , I began having a lot more joint pain and brief vision disturbances. I told my Doctor's nurse about my painful joints. She completely dismissed my complaint by saying that side effect ISNT ON MY LIST! It angered me so I said I dont care what your list shows. At that point, I'd only taken Eliquest for one month. Then I had the ablation and it worked but 2 days after my surgery, I got extremely sick with vomiting and diarrhea. It lasted 2 days and I thought it was covid. However, a few days later, it was a repeat of vomiting and diarrhea. I started getting suspicious of the Eliquest bc I was progressively weaker, nausea, constipation, fever up to 103, shaking and a lot of pain on the right side of my body (neck, shoulder, hip & knee). Sleeping on my right side is a favorite sleeping position but that was too painful so I slept on my back. I'd feel better for a couple days but then spin right back into vomiting and joint pain. It got so bad that I didn't want to eat and when I did eat it continued to make me nauseous. I lost 13 lbs in a month! I tried to contact my EP but was told to contact my primary care doctor or go to the ER. So after 2 Urgent care visits and 2 ER visits, it was found that my heart, kidney and liver enzymes were off the charts! I was transported by ambulance from the Urgent care center to the Hospital. The hospital ran all sorts of tests and nearly all were in the abnormal ranges, so no diagnosis could be made. The hospital wanted me to stay for a third day but I told them I was quitting Eliquest and going home! Its only been 2 weeks since then but I am getting back my health. The vomiting, diarrhea and fevers stopped. It is taking time for the nausea to stop but I am getting my appetite back just now. The way and speed that I was going downhill with Eliquest, I think I would have died. Now my blood tests are slowly getting back close to normal ranges and I am able to ride my horses again. I think the Eliquest side effects were ignored. How sad is that? What would have happened to me if I had dutifully stayed on that poison? Yikes!