(1) "Had" an adverse reaction; legs recovered quickly after going off Eliquis.

(2) Cardiologist had kept me on Eliquis despite Medtronic loop recorder showing that only a small fraction of 1% of the time was I fleetingly in Afib throughout its battery life. Still kept me on it despite my every three months office checkups with EKG, and annual stress test never detecting Afib.

(3) Sent him the Bristol-Meyers Squibb link to the rare but severe side effects of Eliquis; was news to him! https://www.eliquis.bmscustomerconnect.com/afib/faq ( Look about 60% of the way down the pages.)
He now asks each of his patients "Do you have any physical problems?", looking for issues similar to mine.

(4) He is in the process of getting Humana's OK to replace my "dead" loop recorder with a fresh one and has me on 81mg Aspirin

I switched to a natural holistic blood thinner. prescribed by a practitioner. My doctor wanted to put me on xarelto which also has muscle weakness as a side effect. No thanks!! I went to a doctor who diagnosed "toxic myopathy" from eliquis, albeit reluctantly. This was almost a death sentence for me. I can only imagine someone without family support, they would be in a hospital for 3 weeks at least, and the doctors would deny the cause and keep feeding the poison to them.