Wish i could say symptoms and conditions

I wish I could say that my symptoms are something new but they're not. I can only thank God that I found this site and finally feel like I'm not totally crazy! I received a cortisone shot (kenalog and Lidocaine) on June 15th. June 17th I started experiencing tingling down my arms,across my shoulders, serious heartburn, change in tastebuds (sour tasting all the time), which progressed with a sudden case of high blood pressure. My period also came a week late and has not left yet but only taken short vacations (3-5 days of light to no bleeding, followed by a regular flow with some gushes all over again). Two weeks ago I started having a tight sensation in my jaw and cheek with sensitivity right under my ears. I've had periods of dizziness, severe migraines as well as heart palpitations (fluttering in my throat). Added to this is swelling down one side at any given time, changing back and forth with no reasoning. I had severe gastritis and GERP as a result as well.

I too was living a healthy life and regret the moment I agreed to that shot. Does anyone know how long these side effects last? Who do you see to deal with them? Are they mimics of real situations (do heart palpitations turn into heart attacks? gastritis turn into ulcers?)

Hi everyone,
It's been a while since I posted. I have been trying to stay away from the computer because it gets me into trouble with looking things up. Anyway i have been on the lexapro now for 5 weeks. I am still only on a 5mgs. I have to say for me it made a huge improvement quickly. My doctor did believe it was the Yaz that messed me up so badly. He is not pushing to raise me and really thinks this dose will do the trick. Like I said in my other post, I never wanted to take an A/D but at that point in my life i did not have a choice. I still have some annoying symptoms left over but on the whole, my anxiety has decreased alot, I am not crying much anymore. I am able to go out and function. The only problem I still have is the sleep and also symptoms seem to be popping back up after my period ends around ovulation time. That is what I am going through right now. My issue is the body jerks at night. I have been doing really well and then they started again a couple of nights ago. I am on 13 cycle days and went back to my journal last month and saw this happend around the same time. I also have muscle flutters throughout my body. That is annoying as well. I sometimes also get tingling and numbness in my hands and feet. Istart to worry about nerve damage. I wish I could say its from the lexapro, but all this started before the lexapro, after the yaz of course. A/D are not for everyone and my doctor was surprised how quickly I started feeling better. He thinks it's becasue I am so small and tiny in weight. Everyone needs to do what is right for them. Right now I just want to get better and be able to take care of my family. I have made alot of progress. I still get very angry and wonder why this had to happen and wonder if the body jerking will ever go away and if I will ever be able to sleep again like I use to. I really believe the Yaz scrambled my brain. I am also in therapy to learn how to deal with the way my life has changed through all of this. I am lucky that she agrees too about the Yaz. I wish there were more opened minded doctors out there. It's really frustrating how they just put woman on b/c pills without even checking us out and making sure we don't have anything else wrong with us. Especially with Yaz and Yasmin. They both are dangersous because of the potassium in it. This pill really should be taking off the market. Oneday someone is going to die from this pill and hopefully we don't have long term damage done to us.