Clopidogrel and Constipation: What Users Say

• Bos...
• Taken for 1 to 6 months
• December 22, 2015

For Heart Attack "My father experienced TIA symptoms, taste disturbance, severe weight loss, nausea, pins and needles, speech difficulties, and a few hallucinations or visual disturbances over the first eight days of taking clopidogrel, with repeated admissions to the hospital. He was treated as if he had a TIA, although no evidence for it, and removed from clopidogrel for ten days, during which all symptoms ceased and he returned to normal. He then resumed clopidogrel, and the symptoms returned, but after a couple of weeks, he went into an increasing decline, with pain radiating from his lower back, depression, increasing frequency of visual disturbance, constipation, lethargy, and confusion. He was taken off clopidogrel after five weeks and all pain, loss of appetite, etc., left."

• Nur...
• October 11, 2016

Clopidogrel for Transient Ischemic Attack "After my VAD stroke, I am on Plavix. I have a toddler that I still nurse. I looked up Plavix for several days and talked to several doctors. Some said it was fine, some said it was not okay. After talking to so many people about it, I felt that it seemed okay to nurse on. I've been on it for a month, and yesterday I realized that my 2-year-old is constipated. We are weaning ASAP now because I don't know what else it's doing to him, but it's definitely getting through. I just wanted to post this somewhere for other nursing moms to see. We are currently only nursing two times a day right now."

• Dan...
• Taken for 1 to 6 months
• March 31, 2015

Clopidogrel for Ischemic Stroke "Problems: Nosebleed, significant memory loss and confusion, extreme constipation."

• Raj...
• February 4, 2010

For Heart Attack "I suffer from constipation, perhaps it's a side effect of the drug. Been taking it since April 2008."