Rivaroxaban 15mg

My mum had blood clots in her leg under her knee. For past 2 weeks she has been taking 15mg Rivaroxaban and since she cannot sleep at night, she has lost SO much weight - she looks like a skeleton, her skin is pale, she has no appetite at all and all her muscles ache. Is that normal? Or is this because they only started testing these medication? Or maybe because it is a DRUG? She is supposed to take those for next 6 months, what if she gets addicted? Please answer this for me if you can or know anything useful about this medication/drug because i just cannot look at my mums condition. It breakes my heart. :(

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I am very sorry about your mother's condition and I understand your concern.

But I think you are misunderstanding something about medications, to try to explain it….

All medications are drugs, but not all drugs are medications.

There are differences and this is not the type of thing that is addictive.

However, it is a blood thinner, so the change in her circulation could explain some of her symptoms, such as the aches, but those could also be caused by the blood clots they are trying to remove with this medication.

Learn more Rivaroxaban details here.

The best thing to do would be for her to talk to her doctor about her symptoms to see what can be done to help alleviate them.

Are there any other questions or concerns?

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