i started taking welchol a week ago, and now i am having muscle a...

Your posting was Mar '07, how long did you take it and are you any better now? I started in June 02, was on it for less than a month and got off. Muscle aches and weakness, very bad. Could walk miles for pleasure before welchol, Within three weeks I couldn't walk a block without pain of weakness. Now after 5 years, still no better. Haven't found an MD that would listen to "Welchol" as a problem. Some wanted to blame something that they had experience with or ignore it. Now they tell me that back surgery "may" help my legs. I have felt like this was a massive cover-up. I have almost no muscles left, especially in my legs. But after five years of not being able to get much exercise, what should I expect. I guess that I'm lucky to be able to walk at all, even with the pain.