Neck injury symptoms and conditions

I had been on a prednisone dose pack (not too strong??) about a month ago for a neck injury to take away some inflammation. No side effects to mention and my neck felt tons better. Yesterday I went back to my dentist after 5 days of pain from a root canal. He put me on a prednisone dose pack saying there was some inflammation in the bone, very common, and the prednisone should take care of it. I took my dose yesterday, didn't sleep well (common side effect it seems) but then today my heart is racing and feels like it skips a beat. I have read this happening to folks on much higher doses, anyone have this kind of side effect with 20 mg/day?

DUE TO A SEVERE NECK INJURY I WAS PERSCRIBED GABAPENTIN 300MG X 2 ,3 TIMES PER DAY & 900 IN THE EVENING, PLUS 120 MG OF MST (MORPHINE SULPHATE) PER DAY.

THIS CONTINUED FOR 6/7 MONTHS UNTILL SURGERY WAS PERFORMED UNFORTUNATLEY I NOW SUFFER FROM SEVERE MUSCLE PAIN IN MY LEGS WHICH NOBODY AGREES THAT IT IS CAUSED BY MEDICATION

I am so happy to have found this site...your stories are so helpful. I am 28 years old and I was put on 60 mg's of Prednisone for 7 days for a neck injury by a neurologist. After taking about 5 days of it, I wasn't sleeping AT ALL, was very jittery, heart palputaions, had foggy thinking, difficulty with memory, and was sparking panic attacks. My doctor said "STOP IT COLD TURKEY". I questioned that knowing that this is a drug that you should be weaned off of and he said that since it was such a short course, I'd be fine! A day or two following that, I landed in the E.R. hyperventilating and basically thinking my toughths were those of an insane person. I was discharged after 2 days, and well, it's been a week since I"ve been off and I can't sleep without a pill and still have all the same effects...is this normal and someone please tell me how long I have to live like this. The dr's all say the drug is out of my system by now! HELP! Please respond!!!!

i had a neck injury and was getting cervical spine epidurals withprednisone. i started having night sweats , trouble thinking an bad bad mood swings. to keep the list going ,terrible headaches ,muscle weakness,numbness in my arms and fingers. i thought i was going nuts and then was told it was a reaction the the drug. nice that they told me. if i had known the sid affects before i would not have gone ahead with the epidurals. does anyone know how long this will last?
thankstami