SINGULAIR Reviews (MONTELUKAST SODIUM)Average Rating: 2.1 (1370 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare SINGULAIR with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR SINGULAIR | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | doctor recommended for asthma | CHRONIC HIVES BIG WELTS ALL OVER MY BODY, SEVERE NIGHTMARES, HEADACHES, ITCHING ALL OVER, DEPRESSION, BIG WEIGHT GAIN, BEWARE WHEN TAKING THIS DRUG YOU MAY GET CHRONIC SIDE EFFECTS LIKE ME?I was having problems with breathing for the first time in my life. I had to go to the ER about 3 different times in about 2& 1/2 weeks. They had started me on prednisone and an inhaler. The 3rd time in the ER the on call doctor was concerned and wanted to admitted me. My husband thought he was helping me out and said lets get to the bottom of this. They did and an other doctor said to take singulair and continue taking the prednisone. | That is when everything started. It has been a nightmare for me. I stopped taking the singlar but have to continue taking the prednisone to control the CHRONIC HIVES I get daily. I have had a CT scan, lots and lots of blood work. They have not found anything. I can not get off the prednisone because the hive get really bad. I am now going to a specialist who is going to try some cancer drugs to get me off the prednisone which I have been on for 6 months at 15mg a day and am getting side effects from it. Some days I don't know how I can make it through the day. But I try and I keep Praying. My husband has told me that he feels like it is his fault. I don't blame him. But he has to watch me go through this daily and it's tearing him up not being able to do any thing.( My husband which he could go back in time and never let them admit me.)After about two months I stopped the singular. | F | 46 | 46 years | 1/4/2007 | 5 | control asthma | None with brand singulair. Since going on generic, I have had ear pain, headachs, blured vision, and sinus pressure. | Will be contacting Doctor in the morning. | M | 56 | 20 years 5MG 1X day | 3/11/2013 | 1 | Allergies and Asthma | Gastrointestinal distress daily. Upper respiratory and sinus congestion and mucus. Disturbed sleep patterns with frightening vivid dreams. Mood changes including anxiety and depression. Severe neuropsychiatric adverse reaction - paranoia and severe and chronic auditory hallucinations. | Stopped med one year ago and withdrawal period was very difficult. No doctors were of assistance in diagnosing connection to Montelukast. Most side effects decreased or completely resolved within several months of stopping the medication. There is a withdrawal period. Do not stop and start this med! We tapered off slowly. Dangerous medication for adults and children. | M | 30 | 20 years 10 MG 1X day | 11/2/2019 | 3 | Asthma | I was on this drug for 18 years. Never had any side effects until the last two years. I had tremors for 2-3 years and doctors weren't sure why. Finally, last year, my doctor and I deduced that it might be from Singulair. I decided to stop taking this medication after being on it for 18 years. Within a few days, my tremors subsided. I have been off Singulair for a year now and I haven't had any tremors ever since. It is very strange that after 18 years, I developed tremors from this medication. | F | 26 | 18 years 10 mg 1X day | 10/19/2017 | 1 | Allergies and Asthma | Sleep disturbance, vivid dreams, night terrors, anxiety, depression, auditory hallucinations, hair loss, sinus congestion... | Neuropsychiatric/mental health side effects do not simply go away once stopping the medication. Stopping and starting the med is not a good idea and there is a long period of withdrawal issues post Montelukast. | M | 31 | 17 years 10 MG | 10/15/2019 | 3 | Asthma, Allergies | Depression, anxiety, a studder, hopelessness, suicidal thoughts, fear, lonliness, mood swings, anger | I have taken Singulair my entire life. I wish I could have my childhood back without fear, without anxiety, without depression, I dont exactly know how this drug has helped me with my asthma, nor do I know if me as a person will be different if I ever get taken off of it. I fear I am who I am today beacuse of Singulair.a All I do is stress and fear everything, I even fear talking to people. I fear telling my doctor, if I get taken off the drug, will my asthma be controllable? Will I be a different person. Maybe I'll never know. I wonder who I would be today if I didn't have asthma, if I didnt have to take singulair. All I ever want is to be accepted by people but I fear there is no one on this earth as unfortunate as me. Every day I contemplate suicide, I fear it so much I con't do it. | M | 16 | 16 years 10mg 1X day | 12/2/2011 | 3 | Asthma, Allergies, MCS | Over the last several years I had been experiencing lower back and hip pain, which I attributed to age. I have also over the last two years tried to reduce the medication I am on during the winter (I live in the north east) while allergens are low. I have stopped taking singulair over the winter two years in a row and stopped and started recently to test my theory, While I am not taking sinuglair I have no lower back or hip pain it is only when I return to taking it does my lower back and hip pain return. I also have noticed I experience muscle aches and spasms in my lower legs in the morning while I am taking singulair. Unfortunately I will have to stop taking it for these reasons. It did seem to help my allergies and asthma in the past but the side effects of the pain doesn't warrant my continuing it. | No Additional comments | F | 50 | 16 years 10 1X day | 4/26/2014 | 4 | asthma | I haven't noticed any side effects | Works alright, but I need additional medication to control my asthma. Advair's worked best for me. | F | 26 | 15 years | 11/16/2006 | 5 | Asthma | None | This has been a 'miracle' drug for me. I spent my entire childhood and early adulthood struggling to breathe. Now, with Singulair, it's like I don't have asthma. I can do anything without any asthma problems. | F | 36 | 14 years 10mg 1X day | 3/8/2011 | 1 | Asthma/allergies | Moody, depressed, bad memorie, negative attitude, impatient | I works great for astham and allergies but I destroyed my live with the side effects. No one would believe me, blood was fine so nothings wrong......right?? I stopped 4 weeks ago and feeling so much better! (a have more troubles keeping my asthma under control but together with my doctor we are looking at that) | F | 42 | 14 years 10 1X day | 4/7/2015 | 5 | severe asthma | none | without this medication, i don't get enough oxygen to stay alert, always yawning, can't speak or do any physical activity without breathing hard; have to take my emergency inhaler multiple times a day (which is ineffective), and the damage that was being caused to my lungs from constant wheezing was always increasing. This medicine gave me my life back 13 years ago and today I can run half marathons, play wind instruments----etc do whatever I like with no problems or fear of not being able to breathe. Any day i miss a pill the terrible inability to breathe comes back. I attribute my life as I know it, and being able to do the things I love to do, to this pill. | F | 22 | 13 years 1X day | 8/1/2014 | 5 | Asthma | I don't think I've had any side effects. | Singulair has worked exceptionally well for me. I had mild asthma when it came to physical activity. My asthma was much worse when triggered by hay fever or animals (I couldn't have a pet until I took singulair). After reading all the negative comments I was trying to figure out if I had any side effects. I might have one or two nightmares a year. I probably had that many before. I do get irritable sometimes, but I used to get irritable sometimes as well. I don't think singulair really had any negative effects on me. | M | 34 | 13 years 10mg 1X day | 4/25/2012 | 1 | allergic rhinitis | 1 MONTH AFTER DOSE INCREASE: auditory hallucinations, suicidal ideation, intrusive, disturbing and violent thoughts. Night terrors, death obsession, fear, OCD. | withdrawal from the drug is worse than the side effects while on it. THERE IS NO RECOMMENDED WITHDRAWAL ASSISTANCE FROM THE MEDICAL COMMUNITY. | M | 15 | 13 years 10 | 10/15/2019 | 5 | asthma | none, zero, zip | It's a wonderdrug for my mild asthma. I have some allergies and also cold weather/exercise induced asthma. I used to have to use my inhaler after walking or shoveling snow in the winter, and before exercising every day year round inside. Since beginning this drug I have had to use an inhaler maybe 3 times when I have had a respiratory bug....that's 3 times over the last 12 years; as opposed to daily use of the inhaler prior to beginning this drug. Zero complaints!!! | F | 51 | 12 years | 10/27/2007 | 5 | asthma | Greatly improved asthma symptoms. I went from needing albuterol daily to barely at all. Allergic rhinitis improved too. I can definitely tell how well it works since when I forget it for a few days, I become a wheezy, snotty mess with itchy eyes. | Wonder drug for me. Completely changed my life. | F | 25 | 12 years 10mg 1X day | 3/16/2011 | 5 | Asthma | Mood swings, serious emotional side effects | Singulair has really bad emotion side effects but it has saved my life. I started taking it when it first came on the market for asthma. Before this drug I was very sick and never slept one night without an attack. 12 years later and I sleep, every night. I only wish it was less expensive( 230ish a month without insurance...ouch). | F | 23 | 12 years 30mg 1X day | 12/13/2010 | 5 | Asthmatic for 18 yrs/Allergies | Drowsiness | I came to this site looking for side effects of another medicine I'm taking and decided to see what people have said about Singulair. I was put off at the fact that someone said the only reason anyone would give this a 5 is because they work for the drug company. WELL, I certainly do not. When first prescribed, I was taking the chewable child dose (considering I was about 9) but eventually moved up to the adult 10mg dose. I've never noticed any side effect except drowsiness - which is why the bottle says to take at bedtime. It works wonderfully for me. I notice whenever I skip a night my asthma flares back up to usual symptoms and I have to take at least one dose of my inhaler. When I take it as prescribed I don't need my inhaler at ALL. It does take about 2 days for Singulair to fully work if I have missed some doses. | F | 21 | 12 years | 1/11/2008 | 4 | asthma | vivid dreams, insomnia, slight anxiety | I've taken this medicine for most of my life and it has made my asthma so much better. Before I started taking it I had to use my inhaler a couple times a day. Now I use it less than once a month. The vivid dreams are really interesting so they don't bother me. I feel anxious even when I'm not taking it, so I don't know if I can blame that on the medicine. As for the insomnia, I'll definately take not sleeping through the night over felling like I am being suffocated. Luckily this medicine works really well for me, and I feel bad for all the people who have had negative side effects because it makes breathing so much easier. | F | 19 | 12 years 10 mg 1X day | 8/2/2010 | 2 | asthma | SEVERE DEPRESSION, suicidal thoughts, self loathing, hated everything and everyone, hated my job, gained 30 pounds and now I find out that this terrible pain in my joints may be caused by it too???? Constant Fatigue!!! | Ive taken it for at least 10 years but NEVER made the connection with the depression, joint pain and weight gain (i mean, who would from an asthma med?) | F | 42 | 12 years | 4/15/2008 | 1 | Allergy-related asthma | Depression, anxiety, joint pain, most recently heart palpitations | I have been on Singulair since it was approved for asthma in 2008. While it did help asthma symptoms, I have dealt with depression and anxiety for the past 12 years. It wasn't until about a month ago, when I started getting scary heart palpitations that I found online that Singulair can cause that. I discontinued the drug and have now realized that it was contributing significantly to anxiety and depression! This is the first time in over a decade that do not feel some level of anxiety or depression. I can "shake it off" when I start to feel a tendency toward those states of mind and I've not been able to do that in a very long time! Such a relief! | F | 40 | 12 years 30 MG 1X day | 11/8/2010 |
SINGULAIR (MONTELUKAST SODIUM): Montelukast is used regularly to prevent the wheezing and shortness of breath caused by asthma and decrease the number of asthma attacks. Montelukast is also used before exercise to prevent breathing problems during exercise (bronchospasm). This medication can help decrease the number of times you need to use your rescue inhaler. This medication is also used to relieve symptoms of hay fever and allergic rhinitis (such as sneezing, stuffy/runny/itchy nose). This medication does not work right away and should not be used to treat sudden asthma attacks or other breathing problems. This drug works by blocking certain natural substances (leukotrienes) that may cause or worsen asthma and allergies. It helps make breathing easier by reducing swelling (inflammation) in the airways. FDA Approval Date: 1998-02-20 (Sources: U.S. Centers for Medicare Services, FDA)