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Plavix side effects
I had a Watchman Device installed in the left aorta on 3/24/26. It's 4/17/26 now and I have to stay on 75MG Plavix until 5/8/26, twenty-four more days when I get a TEE to validate the placement of the Watchman implant. During this time, I've had terrible reactions to Plavix. I'm very dizzy when I stand up and it takes 5-10 minutes for the dizziness to subside. When I eat, it comes back up. I have a very hard time holding down food. I weighed 148 pounds on 3/24 & I've unintentionally dropped down to 136 pounds at 4/17. My energy is gone. The best I can do is sit and watch mindless TV; I don't have much concentration ability to read. Normal small tasks, like feeding the cats, are beyond my strength.
My cardiologist advised that I can change my dosing from daily 75MG Plavix to three days a week, unfortunately a full dose of Plavix sends me back into a Plavix stupor.
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Request the possibility of a new therapeutic medication.....and not Eliquis as it will also can cause dizziness, vertigo and a miserable existence. Perhaps good ole Warfarin will do the trick. However, anti-coagulants do work in different ways and it may not be appropriate. Physicians/Patients typically don't care for warfarin as there is monthly testing and dose adjustments to made which is time consuming for the practitioner to evaluate. Easier just to stick you on one pill
I too had a reaction to Plavix. I was to be on it for one year after 2 stents put in LAD. It started slowly. Loss of appetite, light headedness, weak legs. Lost 8 lbs in 2 weeks. Then anxiety and depression. My pharmacist and doc said can’t be the plavix, go see a psychologist. Since there was too much of a coincidence, I should have trusted my gut. This carried on until I had an anaphylactic reaction, six weeks in. Covered in rash, vomiting and chest pain. I was switched to Brilinta. I tolerated it very well and my doctor said “facts are facts, never seen this type of side effect before”.