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Eliquis OR cholesterol med causing muscle weakness, and legs..
Heart & Blood Health | Last Active: Jul 24 10:10am | Replies (36)Comment receiving replies
@jlharsh
FYI. I’ve been off the cholesterol med for a week now, but I don’t see any difference in my legs still just as weak. Never heard directly from my cardiologist just the NP and that was when I first sent my message letting them know I need a break from me, but I think I’m going to give it another week..
I really believe it’s the Eliquis. That’s causing the weakness., When I asked NP why the cardiologist extended the Eliquis to longer than the year, she said I have a bill, but when she looked up my records, it was when I was in the hospital after I had the heart attack. I did wear a monitor for about a week and the results came back normal and in my follow up appointment I don’t recall anyone telling me. I did have a bit so I don’t know what’s going on.
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@ruth36 Hi. I have just started the long process of trying to figure out what is “wrong” with me and why all of a sudden at the age of 60 I have become so sick. I have a rash begin in January, and it eventually took over my legs, back, torso, and back my neck. I did have biopsies on the rash a few weeks back. They have determined that the rash is related to “a drug“ long story short, I have been very sick for the last three months, but at the beginning of June, I was put on statin. And over the past six weeks I have experienced weakness in my legs and extreme weakness in my arms, and shortness of breath. I ended up in the emergency room two weeks ago. The emergency room doctor diagnosed me with lupus. ( which should have never happened) Since then I have been diagnosed, and undiagnosed so many times I cannot keep up. It is looking like an auto immune problem. But this statin has really messed with my system. I’m the one who started researching all of the medications I’m on. After the biopsies came back and indicated that it was likely from one of my drugs I wanted to know more about my meds. The rash could not be from the statin because it began in January and I was not on the statin then. But the weakness, the fatigue, the shortness of breath, definitely is from the statin. I did not have any of those symptoms until I started taking it. I have been off the statin for three nights. I have had less episodes, as I call them. But I’m still not feeling well. At any given time I can lose the ability to continue with a task I am doing. ( folding laundry) and I have to rest. This is so frustrating and difficult for me to understand. 8 weeks ago I was teaching part time and providing respite care for children with autism. Now I need someone with me. I need to be driven places. They have run 3 courses of steroids through me , and now I’m off of those too. So, I am in pain and miserable.
With no answers. I have a neurology referral in from my doctor. I keep telling her it feels like it is my heart. My blood pressure has been extremely low. Averaging 90/58 . They tell me to drink more fluids !
UGGGGGGHHHH! I’m not dehydrated!
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@ruth36 FYI, I should have reread my message because the AutoCorrect messed it up. I was told I have a fib, but that was when I was in the hospital with a heart attack.