Shivering while sleeping

[MillaZ]

I have been off Xarelto for a month now, after being on it for a little more than a year.

Since the day I stopped Xarelto, I have not been able to sleep properly at all: I am always shivering. The shivers start from my shoulders and then go down my arms, my legs, and sometimes I feel the shivers even inside my head and behind my ears.

I had the same thing 13 months ago when I started taking Xarelto, but not to this awful extent.

It is not a matter of the bedroom being cold, nor of not having enough covers, unfortunately. I am not running a cold or a fever either.

Also, with the shivers sometimes come very weird dreams -not necessarily nightmares, just very vivid experiences of getting lost somewhere with no way to get back home.

Has anyone else experienced this mad shivering? I would really be grateful for your opinions.

[moo196]

Sounds like a possible drug side effect... Do you take other medication? I went through a really difficult withdrawal period after stopping the tramadol several tears ago and other drugs may be similar in the withdrawal process

[MillaZ in reply to moo196]

Thank you so much for your reply. In the evening I take Ramipril (for blood pressure), and in the morning the lowest dose of Bisoprololo. No other medications.

I never thought the shivering could be something like a withdrawal -I did go cold turkey on Xarelto, in fact! The haemathologist just told me to stop taking it that same night, it was not a gradual thing.