Heart test symptoms and conditions

I am so relieved to have found this site... i have been miserable for almost 2 weeks, i broke out with hives last week and never found the cause but with that and some breathing problems they put me on prednisone. I have been miserable since, i couldn't eat drink sleep or do anything else at all pretty much and i have had diarrhea, and a ton of other symptoms... i feel bloated acid reflex muscle aches headaches dizziness chest pain & pressure very weak feeling mood swings and depression the jitters and heart racing and from what i read and researched this is all from the steroid prednisone.... thankfully the doctor ended my dosage sooner than it was prescribed and last night i took my last pill... i now am just wondering when or how long will it be till i feel myself again and can have a good nights rest?? I will never use this medicine again!! I am just soo relieved to have found some answers on here.

I was on the NuvaRing for about 4 months. Within the first month I was a wreck, suffering from depression, crying all the time and feeling anxious. By the second month I started to feel chest pains. My doctor said it was not related and I was stupid enough to believe them and kept it in, but not for long. The chest pain got so bad that I took it out and went to the ER. I had a CTscan and nothing was found. This was all well over a year ago. Since then I have had trouble breathing properly. Just siting down and typing I find have to make sure I am breathing, instead of it happening naturally. I have done every lung function/heart test and nothing is coming back irregular. Has anyone had this problem? I feel like I am going insane and no one can help me. I have rad a lot about side effects while on the ring, but has anyone suffered long term effects that are undiagnosed?

I don't have a new side affect with Prednisone but just want to share my feelings. I was diagnosed with Temporal Arthritis since last July 2007. I started taking 60 mg of Prednisone for 1 month. Didn't notice the side affects then. Weaned myself off through my doctor's instructions. But relapse occurred when I was only on 2 daily. With Temporal Arthritis, you get delibating and horrendous head pain which is caused due to inflammation of the main artery in the temple. I am back to 3 daily.
Besides my moon face, I am bigger. I really don't have a lot of the other side affects you all talk about. I am sorry you all have to go through that.
My depression is better. My sleep is horrible. Now I am going to a sleep study to see if I have Sleep Apnea.
I consider Prednisone a wonder drug. Although the side affects are horrible, I have to admit, I feel much better, most of the time. I do have inflammation in the neck. Not sure if that is pred or temporal arthritis, but am seeing a rheumatologist for that.

Teena

Hi,
I've been reading up on Toporal XL and read your posts, I too was put on med. about a year ago. They did all sorts of heart test and found nothing but an extra beat? I don't like taking medication unneccesaryly and after a few months stopped taking it. I slowly weaned mysefl off by streching the days, from one a day to every other day to every third day....I have no other health issues and I"m thinking if this is for heart and blood pressure , why am I taking it? .Not sure if I'm doing the right thing, but I'm afraid to get addicted to med. that I really don't need. I had a good Dr. for 30 yrs. and he retired. So I don't have much faith in a new Dr. Does he just want to run up my bill? Or do I need this? Test had run into the thousands, thank God I have insurance... So far I've been feeling fine. Sometimes I feel alittle dizzy. But the scarist thing was that I had passed out one day while working outside. Don't know if it was from the medication or heat stroke. I wasn't out to long and had plenty to drink, but then I hadn't ate yet...

i changed from zestril to lisinopril a couple of years ago, and been tired siince, i thought, and the doctor thought this was probably slight depression, i have had chest pain, (tightness in the chest), also have had anxiety issues, spent a couple of days in the hospital running heart test and blood work finding nothing, again the doctors saying from depression, and anxiety. i have not put two and two together before reading this web site, this explain the way i have been feeling, asking the doctor to change my med very soon.