Tadalafil (Cialis): Any advice to manage muscle aches?

Posted by fritzo @fritzo, Mar 29 10:28pm

Hi everyone,
Ahead of surgery in three weeks, I started a low dose regimen of daily 5mg of Tadalifil . I've started getting one of the known side effects where I suffer muscle pain (mainly my thighs/quad muscles in the legs and my shoulder muscles). I would describe it as a deep muscle ache. It's annoying enough that I haven't gotten great sleep the past couple of nights. I did wake up last night and took some Tylenol and that helped.

Question: Any strategies for dealing with tadalis induced muscle ache? Does it go away? Should I switch from taking it at night to the morning?

Thanks for any advice!

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climateguy | @climateguy | Apr 12 10:56am

Update on my update: After 5 days of no daily tadalafil 5 mg, I reported no change. However, about 10 days after stopping, my symptoms started declining. There was a peak several days back there while I was still taking tadalafil, of intermittent extremely intense pain that persisted for hours no matter what I did, i.e. sitting motionless or even lying down.

Now, instead of intermittent muscle pain extending down the front of my thigh from hip to knee, so severe I could not do certain exercises, a less severe pain close to my hip is all that is left.

I could test if tadalafil has anything to do with the fact that my symptoms have declined by starting to take the drug again. I won't be in a hurry to do that.