Hi! This is CeCe 55 with a response. I was put on Eliquis after two AFIB events in 2017. I wear a Loop Recorder so that my cardiologist can monitor my irregular heart beat that I have had since birth. I went approximately one year without an event so thankfully he took me off of Eliquis and put me on one baby aspirin along with metoprolol 12.5 x 3 per day. I seem to react to medicines with more intensity than most and anything stronger that 12.5 metoprolol really brings my heart rate and blood pressure down very low. When I was on Eliquis, the only side effect that I had was terrible body aches. I told my cardiologist this and I have even been on Mayo Connect about this. No one else had experienced this. My pharmacist looked it up and sure enough it is a rare side effect. At the end of last year I had dental surgery and they had to stop Eliquis for a week. Within two days my body aches stopped. In January I was taken off it. I pray I never have to go back on again but it did it's job. Elegantgem...you are the first person who has also had the body aches. I feel your pain. Bless You.

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