Night sweats worse and facial flushing after steroid injection

[Gwelos]

I had a steroid injection last Friday and have had facial flushing and raised bp in the morning and raised pulse since.

Sometimes I wake up about 2am sweating with raised pulse and if I move even slightly it shoots up to about 110. It’s very slow to return to normal.

Anyone have a similar experience

[MrsSuzuki]

I think it's quite common to have facial flushing after steroid injections. I had the same problem when I had a guided injection in my shoulder. It lasted a few days. I don't remember any raised BP at all. Perhaps you should contact your GP considering it's been nearly a week since your injection.

Lily

[Gwelos in reply to MrsSuzuki]

Thanks for your reply🙏I was with her today and I’m having a 24 hr bp monitor. I can’t get one till the 7th December! I was just wondering about others experiences

[Snowgirl65]

Oh yes, I had that too -- both from steroid injection for allergies and nasal spray for same. I learned my lesson.

[Gwelos in reply to Snowgirl65]

Thanks Snowgirl65. Interesting about the nasal spray. I was using Avamys and I thought it might not be good but wasn’t sure. What do you use now

[Snowgirl65 in reply to Gwelos]

I use Azelastine, a non-steroid antihistamine spray. Really works well.

[Gwelos in reply to Snowgirl65]

Great! I’ll give that one a go.

[Singwell]

I had a bad reaction to one I was given to bring down swollen tonsils during an attack of quinsey. Latter was horrible but so was the reaction next day - shaking and sweating. I nearly passed out. As a matter of fact I suspect it triggered my first AF episode. I had the injection in January 2019 and was diagnosed with AF in the December of that year. For the entire year after the steroid event I had periods of feeling weirdly tired and fluttery. I guess I was lucky not to have a stroke. Hope you've talked to your GP. Personally I would not take steroids again unless a matter of life and death.

[Gwelos in reply to Singwell]

Sorry to hear all that happened to you. Good to hear you made it through. I guess steroids are good in certain circumstances but I won’t be taking them again. I have to say the rapid HR was scary. Today is the first day I feel normal which I’m thankful for and hopefully the effects are gone.

[Singwell in reply to Gwelos]

That's good to hear. Just reminds is doesn't it that pharma is powerful stuff

[doodle68]

I have been taking a daily high dose of prednisolone for temporal arteritis since august and the side effects are awful and include night sweats. I have to get up and change my nightdress every night also the steroids have affected my voice,increased my heart rate and now I am in danger of developing steroid induced type 2 diabetes.

[Gwelos in reply to doodle68]

Sorry to hear that. Hopefully you will be able to reduce the dose at some point. Thanks for your reply🙏

[WildIris]

I take prednisone for lupus. I also have white coat syndrome, which means that my pulse and bp go up when I'm at the doc's, just psychosomatic, even when I think I'm relaxed, which can always be a factor with BP and pulse rate, also afib. In my case, I have paroxysmal afib, but haven't had an episode in many months since I lowered my prednisone dose, also changed my diet. I'm surprised nobody else reports having a fib worsened by prednisone. Anyway, hopefully you won't have to take it for long.

[Gwelos]

Thank you to all for your information.. it can be so reassuring to hear from others🙏