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 |
| 5 | None | My son has taken Singulair for 3 years with no side effects. He is doing well in school and has no problems with concentration or behaviour. | M | 7 | 3 years 5 mg 1X day | 7/24/2010 | 5 | severe ashtma cough, pet allergies | nothing | was very scared to try my son on this , but after seeing him in such pain with the permanantcough and not being able to be around animals thought i would give it a try , . there has been no side affects at all like what has been described on this site, his cough has virtually gone , he can run around without needing to stop and take blue inhaler, hes spent 4 hrs at the weekend around a very hairy dog and was fine, this tablet has been a god send 4 my son and i will continue to let him have it. please dont be put off by the scary negative comments, everybodys child is different, please give this medicine a chance | M | 7 | 2 weeks 4 mg 1X day | 6/4/2012 | 4 | Allergies/ asthma | My 7 year old son was able to breathe and not have to use his inhaler as much which was wonderful, but his behavior suffered. He had mood swings, very irritable and aggressive. | After going to this website and on-line I am going to discontinue singular and try another drug to help him. It there were no side effects with behavior he would still be taking it because it is the best medicine that we have found so far to help with his allergies and asthma. | M | 7 | 45 days | 9/18/2009 | 3 | mild asthma | moodiness, easily frustrated, crying spells, upset stomache | Thank you, I would have never connected the symptoms to singular. Although it has helped with the addition of Qvar to help control his asthma, I will now make an appointment with his pediatrition to stop singular and look into something else. He has been very emotional and has even started crying at school. He is having difficulty with school work and has always been in higher learning classes. I thought his moods were just a phase! I hope he does well without it, it does worry me to take him off the maintanence. He has been on it for almost two years.Has any one had any experiences with another allergy medicine? | M | 7 | 2 years | 4/30/2008 | 3 | Asthma | Didn't think any until recently. I think it is causing my daughter to have anxiety. | My daughter has been on it for close to 2 years, last year she started pulling out her hair and eyelashes, that stopped and now she cries and has loose bowels in the morning - exactly like an anxiety attack. She stopped using it last night. I hope to see a difference soon. | F | 7 | 2 years | 6/1/2007 | 3 | asthma | sleepwalking, night terrors, bedwetting and in the last 6months leg pain, stomach aches. | My daughter started taking this when she was 3 and is now 7. She was recently diagnosed with auditory processing disorder, dyslexia and ADHD. My husband found this website and we are going to take her off singular and see if it makes a change. Her sleepwalking is so bad we have an alarm on the house as she has tried to get out a couple times. Very scary! I will update post and let you know how things are going. Thank you all for posting. | F | 7 | 4 years 4mg 1X day | 11/18/2010 | 2 | exercise induced asthma | anxiety, panic attacks, nightmares | My 7 year old was prescribed Singulair during soccer season in fall. His environmental allergies and running cause asthmatic symptoms. After just a few days, he was like normal. He could run and be outdoors with all of his normal triggers with no reaction. This medicine does work, no doubt. But after about 3 weeks on the medicine, he confided that he had been feeling wierd at least once a day and couldn't make it stop. Upon further questioning, I realized he was experiencing panic attacks. He described that he felt like things were happening that weren't really happening, so I believe he was also hallucinating, or this could have been part of the panic attack symptoms. Lastly, he mentioned that he had some horrible nightmares about monsters recently. Knowing there are some serious psychological side-effects, we stopped the medication and anxiety and nightmares never occured again. If you do put your child on this, I would suggest asking them daily if they are feeling ok, as they may not realize things they are experiencing are abnormal or they may be embarrased to talk about it. | M | 7 | 1 months 1X day | 1/25/2011 | 2 | my 7 yr. old daughter | she is a high energy child who started experiencing very bad asthma and allergies at around 1 1/2 yrs. she was taking prednisone once a month for about 6 mos. and the dr. suggested singulair along with as needed albuterol and pulmecort inhalers. heavy medicine for a small toddler. she has been an intense child with mood swings, temper tantrums and extremely challenging for me. we tried herbs, which help, naturopath medicine and currently do vitamins as well. all of these things have helped, however i wonder, now that i am reading this, if singulair has created some of these symptoms. she often whistles and makes sounds obsessively. much of this is normal, but she is a bit more intense than most of our friends children when it comes to being stubborn and difficult. she has trouble focusing and listening to my words, like i have to repeat EVERYTHING 10 times, and my other daughter is not at all like that. i know this may sound totally normal, however, i spend alot of time with my | F | 7 | | 7/31/2007 | 2 | control asthma | lack of focus in school, frequent urination, nightmares, emotional outbursts | My daughter is 7 years old and was on this medication for 4 years for quite severe asthma. Along with steroid puffers she took singulair. The medicine did help control her asthma, but the side effects were consistent as well. Stumbling across this website, I asked her Pediatrician about the side effects (he stated none were proven). Against the doctors’ instruction, we decided to take her off Singulair. We changed our environment as well (taking all carpet from our home and replacing with hardwood throughout and adding a hepa filtration system). With these changes my daughters asthma remains to be controlled (next step is to take her off the steroid inhaler and have her med. free). The best part is; her mood has become much better, her grades in school increased from a "C" average to an "A" average. She now loves to read, she is more of a peaceful child and she is happier. Sure it cost us to upgrade/improve our environment (in which we needed a loan) but it was worth the money spent to see these improvements with our daughter. Our loan is now paid off and our daughter is a much better person for it - without Singulair. | F | 7 | 3 years | 4/28/2009 | 2 | asthma | mood swings, crying, obsessive compulsive behaviors, anger. | It worked great for her asthma, but the side effects are awful. We will be stopping this med to see if the other behaviors improve. | F | 7 | 2 months | 12/15/2009 | 1 | Allergies | Seperation anxiety, uncontrolled crying, general anxiety | My 7 year old has been taking drug on and off since she has been 2. She has suffered on and off from bouts of crying, unexplained fears and SEVERE seperation anxiety that started out of nowhere. We were never able to pinpoint a reason until reading experiences of others. I mentioned this to her doctor when it all began and the idea of this med causing anxiety was dismissed. I feel so guilty for not checking into this sooner, and especially for not persuing it further. She asks way too many questions about death, dying and cemetaries and we could never figure out why. She cries when happy, sad, scared for just about anything at all. Always intermittently, never consistently. When you ask her why, all she can say is I can't help it. We could never figure what the trigger would be, now I have finally have a place to start. She is off the med for 10 days now, and hopefully it will work it's way out of her system sooner rather than later. | F | 7 | 4.5 years | 12/10/2009 | 1 | allergies | Irritability, hallucinations, depression | It also did not work for my daughter's allergy symptoms. I feel so bad for giving this to her. Every day her mood has gotten a little worse, and she just feels like every thing bad happens to her. She woke us up in the middle of the night screaming b/c she thought there was a man in her room. | F | 7 | 3 weeks | 10/1/2009 | 1 | coughing asthma | Prescribed by pediatrician for our 7 year old daughter. Daily intense headaches which were dismissed as not related to the medication by our doctor - although they started a month or so after going on the medication.. Went as far as getting a CT scan because of the duration, frequency and intensity of the headaches. Additional side effects of occasional fever, dizziness and irritability. We are stopping the use of this drug immediately. The published side effects are alarming - should've done more research before taking the doctors advice on this one. No doubt we will be more careful in the future. | F | 7 | 3 months | 11/10/2009 | 1 | seasonal allergies | My son was on and off Singular for several years for his seasonal allergies. We finally realized that he has always been a very strong willed child, but whenever he was taking Sin gular he became very aggressive. We refused to put him on this medication again. It did help his allergies, but was not worth the side effects! When I told our pediatrician he was not aware of this side effect. He went and checked his medicine book and found that increased aggressiveness WAS a side effect. | Would not give to children | M | 7 | 2 years | 9/5/2009 | 1 | Seasonal Allergies | Severe Depression and Agression | My son was on this medication for six months before I finally made the connection between the drug and his behavior change. He became very depressed, nearly suicidal, often telling us that he wished he had never been born, wanted us to kill him, and that he didn't want to live anymore. He was also very aggressive toward his younger siblings. All of these behaviors were way out of character for him--typically a very compassionate and joyful individual. Within two weeks of being off the drug we had our normal, happy, loving boy back. NEVER EVER, EVER give this drug to a child. When I related our experience to the allergist he was not surprised, has seen it before (argh!) and said that my son can't take Singulair, Zyrtec (He had similar results with Zyrtec), or Claritin. Be very cautious of drugs, parents! | M | 7 | 6 months | 9/18/2009 | 1 | Daughter's Asthma/ Allergies | It took a few months to occur to me that the nightly headaches my 7 year old was experiencing might be caused by the Singulair. We've noticed that her disposition has become increasingly poor - she has episodes of emotional meltdowns, has lost interest in doing almost anything (her afterschool activities/ sports, and school in general), she wakes up at night complaining of nightmares, wakes up in the morning complaining that she is already tired. She is fidgety and has experienced daytime wetting accidents. | My daughter has mild to moderate asthma caused by seasonal allergies. When Claritin wasnt controlling the breathing problems, the ped. suggested this. We were not verbally warned of any of the above side effects, and whether to discontinue use if they occurred. Only after I suggested it to the ped today did he agree she should stop taking it. Daughter was taking this for approximately 3-4 mos. | F | 7 | 4 months | 4/21/2009 | 1 | Asthma | Irritability, rage, difficulty controlling emotions | My child was prescribed Singulair by our GP and ever since, she has been nothing but erratic, depressed and overwhelming. Sudden outbursts, excessive crying, screaming, biting herself ... she even said she was so angry she wanted to kill herself (this is a 7 year old child -- I never could imagine her saying anything like this). After reading up a little on the internet today, there is not way I am going to give this drug to her anymore. | F | 7 | 3 weeks | 6/1/2009 | 1 | allergies | My 7 year old was prescribed this for severe allergies. He complained of headaches constantly. He was very emotional. He was always an excellent student and his teacher said he was having trouble focusing. | I would not recommend this medication for children! | M | 7 | 5 days | 6/17/2009 | 1 | Very mild asthma | My daughter became so easily to become very angry toward anything - herself, family members, slight criticism or even most neutral suggections. She was 5+ taking Singulair for 3-4 months in total. She has not been taking any more one year. But her problem has not been changed. She is otherwise mostly a happy healthy girl. | The mood problem didn't seem to go away long after stopping the medicine. We too felt being forced by the doctor to use it on our child. | F | 7 | 4 months | 2/26/2009 | 1 | Allergy induced migraines | My daughter was having 2-3 severe migraines a week at the age of 6. It turnes out she had a chronic sinus infection. After 2 rounds of antibiotics, the dr prescribed singulair. I honestly did not recognize that she was experiencing side effects from Singulair until now. She has gained almost 20 lbs since December, which is strange since she hardly eats!!! That is what prompted me to look it up, but I am sooo glad that i did because now I realize so many more! She has changed from a very happy, sunny child into a withdrawn,depressed child. She is very sensitive about the slightest thing, and says that no one ever wants to play with her, even though her teacher says that she is the one that refuses to interect. She has also recently experienced stomach aches, leg and ankle pain, and headaches. She also seems to have to urinate ALL the time. | Although I am sure that Singulair works great for some people, I really would not recommend it for a child. Although I do not want my child to suffer with migraines again, we will drop Singulair TONIGHT. Chiropractic care seems to be a wonderful alternative for many "Tried and True" medicines. I really am grateful for this site, and I am so angry and sad that soooo many other families have had to suffer through this while just trying to eliminate another problem. | F | 7 | 10 days | 9/18/2007 |