Joint pain while on Apixaban

[trixie100]

Do any of you suffer from painful joints and muscle aches while taking apixaban and bisoprolol?

[kayberry]

Trixie, YES, terrible new joint pain for almost 2 years now just since beginning Apixiban… NEVER had joint pain until about a month after starting apixiban.. i do not take bisoprol. Has changed my life; am contemplating the Watchman device so I can stop apixiban. Has anyone had any experience with getting the Watchman? I am in USA. I feel so much older so quickly…. Am 75 but felt 50 prior to taking apixiban.

[bantam12]

I take both, no problems with aches or pains.

[Geza10]

hi i am 64 and play football and a few other sports when i went on apixaban like you muscle and old injuries give me grief i have learned to live with them if i stopped the apixaban it could be alot worse then joint pain

[KMRobbo]

1.25mg bisoprolol gave me chest and arm pain which I thought was muscular.

[Staffsgirl]

I was in Bisoprolol for a couple of years and experienced the most excruciating leg pains until I came off it.

[Tryfan]

Interesting comments. I have joint pain in some specific joints. I put this down to kicking too many foot and rugby balls. Or damage caused by other sports injuries and not Apixaban. There may be a danger in conflating wear and tear with Apixaban. Just a thought.

[Geza10]

yes mine are foot pain kicking a football

[Auriculaire]

Yes and I am pretty sure it is the Apixaban as it improves when taken off for ops. Last year I was off for nearly 10 days with lovenox bridging and am off at the moment for 2nd hip op. But my shoulder pain is improved a bit. I take a low dose of Nebivolol now but when Bisoprolol 5mg I had awful pains in my legs not just my joints but muscles even worse.

[seasicksurf]

My feet (joints at the base of my toes and ankles) were very stiff and sore while I was on apixaban for 3 months following ablation. Once off the apixaban, my feet got better over the course of a couple weeks.

[Hidden in reply to seasicksurf]

This is really interesting as I've been suffering with achillies pain since being on apixaban. I havent had an injury from running in a long time and now all of a sudden I have what seems like achillies tendonitis . It's a possibility I picked it up from just running but seems to have coincided with the apixaban for sure! Interesting, maybe the medication made me more susceptible to injury?

[seasicksurf in reply to Hidden]

Right. I didn’t mention but I also had achilles bursitis (not your tendonitis)—back of heal was swollen and painful for several weeks from the aggravated bursa (the cushion between achilles and heal bone). Went away after I got off apixaban.