I wonder if any one experiencing weak thighs some days.
I am on apixaban and perindopril and have asymptomatic af now for 3 years diagnosed after a stroke. I am female and 69 years.
I walk daily ca 2 hrs but some days I experience very weak thighs and I can only walk very slow and get exhausted after 30 minutes. It doesn't improve with determination . I know it's not unusual to get breathless when walking up hill but this weakness is bothering me. My GP hasn't got an explanation. I wonder if it is age related but people older than myself don't get this nuisance .I am grateful for advise..
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Perindopril is not a drug I have any knowledge of but reading up on google, weakness is a common side effect. Why not go back to your doctor and ask if there is another drug you could try.
I had this happen to me several years ago with pain in the quads and hamstring muscles that got worse the more I walked.A physio. diagnosed a shortening in my hamstrings and quads muscles . She lengthened them with a stretching exercise and I had a miraculous recovery.She said it would come back and it did after several months so I had to have another treatment. and I have seen her a couple of times a years since then but nothing in the last year. So.....could be this ?Hunt around for a good physio. before you seek treatment.Mine was very experienced.
I am on Apixaban 5mg a day, i can only walk slowly and a short distance about the length of a football pitch without stopping and leaning on something, Not exactly breathless but exhausted, fell as tho I have run a marathon. My heart man says I suffer from "Acute fatigue". I am 81 but up to 8years ago could do everyhting at double speed. What next?
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