After I had the Solu Medrol iv last week ( I had 3 days of treatment tues-thurs) I started experiencing bad headaches, chest pains (felt like tightness, burning when I breath, like someone sitting on my chest), back pain, fatigue, nausea, "flushing" and pain in my neck and shoulders. On Friday I was taken to the ER because when I called the 24 hour nurse line they told me I needed to go. Needless to say my heartrate had dropped to below 40 bpm the highest it reached was 44bpm which is extremely abnormal to me. My resting is around 68 and has never gone low before. I have had for the past year issues with blacking out when standing, fatigue, dizziness, lightheadedness, vertigo, headaches, cold hands and feet and tinnitus. The ER doctors told me it was all due to the steroids, gave me another prescription for prilosec and gave me a zofran and sent me home saying if it got worse to come back to the ER.
I have had continued pain in my chest, headache, lower back pain and very painful neck and shoulders to the point I can't be touched in the area without pain. I have noticed numbness on top of the pain on my neck and shoulders and goes through my left and right side of my chest and back of head. I also woke up this morning and felt like I had slight tremors through my upper body. I got in touch with my physician in the MS clinic and was told she is concerned about my heart and that I would need to see a cardiologist. She said that since she cannot see me tomorrow to see my pcp and get an overall check on my heart and lungs to be safe as well as she thinks I am having an adverse reaction to the Steroids.(I am on the oral taper now since the iv infusions). Has anyone else had this happen? She mentioned dysautonomia. I thought I was finally getting ahold of the first dx of MS and now this? Any thoughts or insights would be much appreciated.
Thank you!
Llexi