Jean's Posts

I feel pretty well. Instill do water aerobics 1 hour 3x a week. I walked a 5K with my church at the end of April. I had my surgery April 2,2013. I have been walking a 5K in spring every year since. I see my cardiologist every year and a electrophysiologist once a year. No afib since Maze procedure done with mitral valve replacement. Doing well, Thanks.

It has been almost a year since I have written on this site. I assume that once surgery is done and successful, people aren't on this site much. I had my mitral valve replaced with a cow valve in April of 2013 and have felt fine since. On Sunday of LaborDay weekend I went swimming at a public swimming pool. When I got out of the pool, I walked on the cement outside and then had to go inside to the locker room to go home. The floor on the inside had puddles of water with dirt and was slippery. I fell and hurt my sciatic nerve. I basically fell on my butt cheek. Thank God it wasn't my head. I went toER.Nothing is broken. They gave me a muscle relaxant and told me to take that and Tylenol for pain. I am on. Coumidin. Neither drug did much to help the pain in my leg. Monday was Labor Day. Tuesday I went to an Ortho dr and was given prednisone for my leg. I took 4- 4 mg tabs Tues but when I took 2 more on Wednesday morning , I felt my heart racing and skipping beats. I waited till afternoon, hoping this would go away. At 2 PM I was still having skipping beats and to be honest, I was scared. We ended up going to the ER. They connected me to monitors and confirmed a heart rate of 117 with PAC's.( skipping beats). I normally take a beta blocker. They gave me an additional dose IV and that seemed to calm my heart beat down and make it more regular but they wanted to keep me for observation. I finally got to go home Thursday evening. yesterday. My beta blocker was increased to 2x a day and I am not taking any more prednisone. So far so good, Asa far as my heart goes, but without the prednisone my leg is hurting again. I am trying ice and extra strength Tylenol for now. Hope it works. Has anyone else experienced anything like this with prednisone? I know it can have some nasty side effects.