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Eliquis OR cholesterol med causing muscle weakness, and legs..
I’m on both Eliquis and a cholesterol med and I have been getting muscle weakness, especially in my legs. I’ve noticed a list of side effects for both meds for muscle weakness. How can we determine which med it is? What have other people with the same problem done if Dr. still doesn’t believe these meds cause side effects.
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Hi @ruth36. Boy, do I understand your question! You are wise to ask which med is causing problems for you.
My prescribing doctor told me to draw a stick figure drawing and indicate on it what I was feeling and where. I threw it in a drawer and quit taking the particular cholesterol drug. At 30 days I drew another stick figure drawing and compared the two, then reported my findings to my doctor. This process made it super straight-forward to figure out.
What cholesterol medication are you taking? Is this something you could try, I would think with this drug?
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2 ReactionsI’m on Rosuvastatin 20 mg once a day. I take Eliquis 5mg twice a day…one in Morning and one at night.