Spiriva Can Cause Leg Pain

I've had a problem with Spiriva and weight gain (lots of discussion about that elsewhere on this website), but now I have severe anterior leg pain. I thought it was from the unaccustomed weight gain (60 lb. in 6 months after starting Spiriva) but I just went over the Spiriva side effects again and found that leg pain, myalgia, is one of the possible side effects. Does anyone else have this problem that they might not yet have attributed to the Spiriva?

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Hello, Judith! How are you? I'm sorry about the problems you're having.

Suffering both of these side effects may actually have compounded the problem. One can just feed the other to worsen the issue, you gain weight, your legs hurt, so you get less active and gain more weight, then they hurt worse and so on. It's basically a vision cycle.

Other side effects, as listed by the FDA, may include headache, sinusitis, palpitations and rash.

Has anyone else experienced leg pain from Spiriva?

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You've got that right, Verwon! The weight gain is not listed by the drug company as a side effect but from the forum about Spiriva and weight gain elsewhere on this website it obviously is. Myalgia IS listed as a side effect, with leg pain specifically mentioned, but not a particularly common one. I'm just curious as to how many other Spiriva users are suffering from this problem and would like to know if anything can be done about it except for stopping the Spiriva, which would be a real problem for me.

Fortunately, the only other known side effect I have is dry mouth but that's not too bad and is alleviated with Biotene.

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