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Stroke medication: Taking Eliquis to reduce risk of stroke
Stroke & Cerebrovascular Diseases | Last Active: Nov 5, 2023 | Replies (54)Comment receiving replies
My son was incorrrctly diagnosed with afib and put on Eliquis. He had suffered a mild stroke about a month before and after being on Eliquis suffered a MAJOR hemorrhagic stroke leaving him with severe disability. He wasn’t given any antidote but was helicoptered to a major hospital where he underwent a craniotomy. He miraculously survived but was left with left side Hemiplegia. This was in 2017 and he’s still severely disabled but making slow progress.
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The more I read the more concerned I become about the Eliquis antidote, which apparently is AndexXa, approved by FDA in 2018 so it would not have been available when your son had his incident. From what I am seeing it is very expensive and not readily available. And I have also noticed not 100% success rate. A report I read said of the 150,000 hospital admissions attributed to factor Xa bleeding last year only 4,000 were treated with AndexXa. But I don’t know what the current status is. I have seen several posts of stories (not good ones) concerning the antidote but am uncertain as to how recent they are. I certainly hope your son’s recovery is complete and find the fact that the product was being strongly promoted when there was no antidote.