A patient with malaise has been taking daptomycin (Cubicin) for an infection and is concurrently taking simvastatin (Zocor). The nurse should be concerned if the patient complains of
a. nausea.
b. tiredness.
c. muscle pain.
d. headache.
C
Statins can injure muscle tissue, causing muscle aches and pain known as myopa-thy/rhabdomyolysis. Daptomycin also can cause myopathy and therefore should be used with caution in patients concurrently taking simvastatin.
Nausea, tiredness, and headache would not cause the nurse as much concern as the likelihood of myopathy.
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