Eliquis and muscle pain

@tpmcg It’s now been 10 months since I took Eliquis for 1 week and I’m still dealing with the stomach issues. No doctor offered me any real help, just PPI’s
My diet was a lot like yours until recently. I slowly added, plain cooked salmon and sweet potatoes, scrambled eggs, broccoli, avocado on toast, baked potatoes, and for a dessert, I make red jello blended with plain Lactaid yogurt with graham crackers on top. I can also eat walnuts, almonds, and cashews, 1/4 of the tube of powdered lemon lime electrolytes drinks mix. No using straws, no caffeine, no chocolate, no real sweets. It sucks.
Acupuncture helped a lot along with a nightly acupressure and relaxation routine I created. I do it every night. Finally I’m venturing into other foods but Pepcid and GasX are still my best friends

@debmonroe yes Eliquis is a muscle weakness in the legs. I read up about it.

@moski I'll try that. Thanks

@carly14 due to lack of blood flow to the leg muscles? Or blood clots? Did you find any information about why it causes weakness?? I asked my cardiologist if metoprolol causes my leg weakness and he told me no. I will ask home about Eliquis next!

@debmonroe you can ask him, but my doctor didn’t know about it. I read it on the journal of American medical Association and that’s how I know.

legs and back

@lgirl
Make sure they don’t switch you to Xarelto. I was switched to Eliquis from Xarelto because the pain was even worse on Xarelto. I couldn’t even turn my head on it. Eliquis just changed the location of my pain. I have huge difficulty using my hands and have signs of Duyptens contracture after only 3 months.

@gabriig
Yes! I now have swelling and soreness and some sort of fibrous band running from my middle (3rd) toe to my arch on both feet.

Yes, I was started on Xarelto and demanded to be switched because I couldn’t turn my head because of the pain in my neck. This was after about 3 months. Was switched to Eliquis and the neck pain improved a lot. I still hear popping when I move my head. It’s not like when a joint pops and then seems to move better. It’s a noise that happens repeatedly with head movement. Overall, really my pain just moved. Had tremendous knee pain on both. On Eliquis I still have joint and muscle pain and also have tendon pain in places that have never been injured. I have swelling in my knuckles, more than before, and can barely use my hands. I also have signs of Duypten’s contracture in both hands. I’ve lost 40 pounds because it is very difficult to cook with the hand pain and because of indigestion. And I can tell by looking that a lot of the lost weight was muscle. I have a problem in the bottoms of my feet that looks like an inflamed chord of tissue like Duypten’s. Now, looking back I can see that all the symptoms started out small and just got worse over the three months I was on Eliquis. The reason for the blood thinners was May-Thurner syndrome, which was surgically corrected and 2 DVT’s in the left leg caused by the May-Thurner.

was taking 5 twice a day cut my self back to 2.5 of the eliquis and my pain in my back,legs, knees and muscle spasms in my bladder are killing me. On 5 my ankles and and legs looked like tree stumps and my feet killed me not as bad on 2.5 just one ankle swells big now. I am so depressed it kills me to watch my grandkids now. when I forget to take a pill like at night our in the morning by late afternoon my ankles are better. I cannot take statins because of the same problems. and yes my cardo does not believe me or maybe not care. getting ready to switch.