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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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@rebeccadixon
Thank you for your input. I don’t know why the doctors don’t believe the patients and how they’re feeling and it’s right on the medication‘s website about the side effects. This is hell In plain language and anybody who’s going through this knows what I’m talking about. Each day, my weakness gets worse and worse. I have a feeling once I relate my message to my cardiologist that she’s gonna tell me that I shouldn’t get off the meds and still won’t believe the side effect is from one of the meds if not both then I think I’m going to tell her not ask her but tell her I’m stopping Taking one of them for at least two weeks to see if I can see any side effect and I hope and pray that after being on these meds for over a year and a half that I haven’t done Permanent damage to my muscles
Thank you again for your comment. It was reassuring.
@jlharsh yes, I definitely will let everybody know the results😉
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1 ReactionThrilled with new EP today, off eliquis, pip only. I have not had an incident since original diagnosis 18 months ago in the ER. A follow up with cardiologist, ultrasound etc. showed nothing..zio patch, nothing, but the cardiologist said stay on for life, deal with it. He would not refer to an EP. Fast forward, new healthcare insurance, new provider..this cardiologist kicked me to an EP after a 14 day Holter shows nothing. He believes the ER diagnosis was from a situational attack caused by covid taking out my thyroid and said it is common to have an incidence after a respiratory infection. Carry eliquis, monitor daily with my Kardia 6L and come back in a year if nothing happens. It was a long and very thorough appt. and I am thrilled. Hoping the inflammation and leg pain goes away and I can walk without hurting after a block! Never had either prior to the eliquis.
@ruth36
I wrote on my chart to my cardiologist and explained I wanted to take a break from the Eliquis and the cholesterol med. I was taking (one at a time) so I can figure out which one is causing the weakness in my legs. It’s been a couple of days, but I haven’t heard back from her, but I did hear from a nurse in her office and she said she would contact the doctor again and said I could stop taking the cholesterol med for a week or two.. But I already started that process before I heard back from her so it’s been two days without being on it. I would like to go at least three weeks to see if I noticed the difference and then I know I will have to ask for blood work done to check my cholesterol just to be safe that it didn’t skyrocket. I don’t know if anybody else on this site happens to be on the Eliquis AND also a cholesterol med ( Rosuvastatin) and is having the muscle weakness in their legs. If so, please let me know.
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