Clammy symptoms and conditions

I am a nurse of 20 years and was placed on Toprol XL for super ventricular tachycardia (SVT) over a year ago. I was place on 25 mg dose after a stress test, ekg, echocaridogram and 24 hour halter monitor. I was not feeling any better and I was having periods of weakness, profuse sweating and being clammy. The cardiologist had me wear a 30 day event monitor and it showed frequent PVCs and runs of SVT. So he increased the dose to 50 mg. I continued to have the weakness, tachycardia, PVCs, extreme weakness, poor concentration and extreme periods of sweating with becoming clammy and some chest pain. Oh and I started having severe left leg pain that I had not had since my back surgery, so I went back to my pain specialist for treatment. I became so depressed, thoughts of life not worth living, poor endurance, not able to sleep in bed due to severe leg pain and increasing bouts of tachycardia, irregular heart rate, weakness, and sweating this is while at rest or working the symptoms remained. I forgot to mention that my blood sugar was increasing during this time to the point of in danger of being a diabetic.

I decided to stop the Toprol XL after reading some of the side effects that are less common. I was able to sleep in bed for the first time in 6 months, no leg pain. I called my cardiologist and he told me my symptoms were not consistent with Toprol XL side effects or reaction and to double the dose of Toprol XL. I refused and changed cardiologist, one who listened to me.

The result is I stayed off Toprol XL, after 5 weeks it is getting out of my system. No more sweating spells, cold clammy spells, extreme weakness, I feel part of life again and ready to go back into the world not hide from it, my blood sugar is getting back to normal. I am getting my strength and endurance back but have to rest some still, oh and I am losing the 25 pounds that I gained while on Toprol.

I still have irregular heart rate and that is okay but I am on a new medication that really seems to work. Oh, and the spinal implant that I was to have has been cancelled because the leg pain is almost gone and I sleep in a bed not a chair.

HI,

I don't know if there is any point posting this as most people have not been on prednisone for as long as i was :)

Anyway...

Is there anyone who was on prednisone for ten years or more who got off it and has stayed off it ?

I am still suffering from the side effects of being on it and it has been three years now :) A lot of the side effects are less but I still have a puffed up torso and sore joints as well as cold and clammy feet and hands interspersed with hot flushes at times.

I am just wondering if eventually your body goes back to normal :)

I used to have a very athletic body :)

See you

I have been on Advair 250/50 for about 2 years. About 6 months ago I started experiencing feelings of heat on my back....like hot/cold clammy feeling. Hard to explain. My skin feels cool to the touch even when I feel like I am burning up. I feel more or less normal when I wake up and then progressively get these sensations of heat as the day progresses. The steroid in the Advair makes it hard to keep my weight where it should be. Before I was on Advair, I was on Albuteral inhaler, Atrovent and Azmacort. I notice, too, that immediately after inhaling Advair, it is hard to breathe for about 30 minutes. Hoarse voice comes and goes. I think I will try to go back to my previous meds or maybe ask if I can go on Foradil and another type of inhaled steroid as I have a strong asthma component with my Emphysema.

I have been on Methadone for approx. six months for a second time and i have been getting extremely clammy and i sweat and have heat attacks so severe, i'm so afraid of this summer, afraid i might have a heat stroke. It seems my body cannot control my heating system. Someone suggested i might be starting menopause, but i do not have sweating spells unless i'm moving around or even standing ,or if it's hot, not like hot flashes in the middle of the night for no apparent reason. Also i have always had the best blood pressure, now i have high blood pressure since using methasone for pain control and i have to take Toprol. Doctors think it's just a coincidence but i know it's the meth and i am slowly weaning off. I just hope my body can return to normal. Has anyone had these same problems.

This medication gave me a terrible headache. As long as I was laying down I was ok, but as soon as I stood up I became extremely clammy and started throwing up. It helped with my cough but not to the extent I would ever take it again.

I also wanted to express to anyone that ever wants to try this drug. At first, it worked great for me, and I never had to use my albuterol inhalor. Then, after about 3 weeks, I noticed the weight gain. I couldn't figure out why I was gaining weight, when I NEVER have had a weight problem. I am 39 years old and I have gained about 10-12 pounds in about 3 months. I constantly look pregnant. I cannot seem to get rid of the weight gain either. I work out every single day to fight off the water gain. Nothing I do seems to matter, I cannot get the weight off. I wish I knew what to do to get this drug out of my system. I stopped taking it when I called my Dr. on it.
Now, I have constant neck and arm pain everday. I have alot of headaches. I get sweat attacks, and then stay clammy. Shooting pains go down my arms midlength....every single day. I have never been in so much pain DAILY, as I am now. I can only pray that it will leave my system soon and I can feel better.

After taking Guafin I felt cold, clammy, faint, and then had vaginal bleeding with cramps. I felt so poorly that I was lying on the bathroom floor with a wet washcloth on my head. My head and neck felt a lot of pressure, too. Very scary. Try to avoid taking this medicine if at all possible.

i have never felt so sick to my stomach over a precription before. i was given to take for the cold bug and i have been sick to my stomach, dizzy, clammy, and i feel like i have the flu. Aweful!

I started getting sick to my stomach, vomitting, cold and clammy.

Dizziness, nausea, cold & clammy

I was given two days worth of Levaquin, as well as a precription for another seven days, for recurring acute sinusitis. I took one tablet, and within two hours was having cold clammy sweating spells, a headache on one side, and was unable to sleep. The next morning, I had aches and pains all over. Called the doctor and got a different prescription, but the aches and pains continued for two more days.

I later realized that the samples that the doctor gave me had no drug information included, but upon looking at Ortho-McNeil's website, they have no information about the types of side effects I was experiencing.

I have told everyone I know to avoid this drug like the plague. I know it works for some people - but my three-day experience with it was more than I could handle.