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 | Asthma | Paranoia, Mood Changes, Anxiety, Anger, Insomnia, Headaches. | F | 2 days 10 1X day | 7/17/2015 | 1 | severe runny nose, night congestion | twitching of head, lifting shoulders, arms shaking badly, body tremors, waking at night for hours, vocalizing became piercing screams | Our pediatrician prescribed Singulair to our 7 month old son after two failed rounds of antibiotics (amoxicillin and bactrim) were unable to control his severe nasal congestion and and clear mucuos that poured continuously from his nose. He was taking 4 mg of oral granules mixed with his vegetables/fruit. The drug completely cleared up the runny nose, and the nasal congestion was almost non-existent. We thought it was a wonder drug. Two days later we noticed our son was twitching his head as if he had an ear infection which was ruled out. He would raise his shoulders and drop them in what appeared to be involuntary movements. If his arms were outstretched they would shake badly so that he would drop toys in his hands. When we held him after noticing these very disturbing movements, he would still shake and tremble. He is a normally a very happy little guy who suddenly started shrieking with these high-pitched, very loud screams. His behaviour was hyper. We have stopped this medicine af | M | 0 | 3 days | 2/26/2007 | 4 | asthma, allergies | extreme thirst (she is constantly drinking), loss of appetite, weight loss | My daughter started taking this after having 2 serios asthma attacks in a month. It, along with pulmicort, have helped to control the asthma. | F | 1 | 40 days | 9/19/2008 | 2 | allergies | always thirsty, not much appetite, mean, hitting, bighting, throwing, yelling, BAD tantrums, not her normal self at all | The doctor put my daughter on singulair a few months ago for her allergies. It really seemed to help her coughing through the night and watery eyes and all. I quit giving it to her for a while because she didn't seem to need it. A few weeks ago i started giving it to her again. And thats about when we noticed her disobedience and yelling, throwing, hitting, biting, major tantrums, loss of appetite, and being very impatient and just not acting like her normal self. I just thought she was already getting into her terrible 2's. But thats not ever how i imagined my child to act, i couldn't figure out where she was getting it. I got a call from my mom this morning, asking me if she was still taking this medicine i told her yes. And that is when she forwarded me this website. I thought hmm, that explains it. | F | 1 | 4 days | 1/29/2009 | 2 | allergies and asthma | dramatic mood change= went from wonderful temperment to hair trigger trantrums, sleeping changes= nightmares and sleeping patterns, change in appetite= eat anything & everything to very picky eater | F | 1 | 45 days | 8/5/2009 | 2 | allergies/asthmatic bronchitis | sensitivity, mood swings | My son has been taking this for about 6 months now and is very moody. He cries over everything. I am going to stop this med. and see what happens. | M | 1 | 6 months | 4/30/2007 | 2 | Asthma | Loss of appetite, waking 10-15 times a night, extremely irritable - having meltdowns over nothing, very clingy, chewing on her fingers constantly | My daughter (20 months) was put on this medication to try to control her viral induced asthma. 1 week after starting the medication, her appetite began to dwindle. A couple of days later, she started waking many times a night (previously a very good sleeper) and became really aggressive, miserable and clingy. We took her off Singulair at the recommendation of her nurse and just 1 day off it, I am seeing a huge improvement. She only woke twice during the night, ate all her lunch and is happy and no longer clingy. My little girl is back! We are restarting Singulair on Friday just to see if the same side effects flare up - if they do, she will stop treatment completely. | F | 1 | 14 days 4mg 1X day | 6/12/2012 | 1 | Asthma & Allergies | We tried my daughter on this twice, at 6 months and 15 months. Both times she became extremely crabby, screaming, throwing herself on the floor, holding her breath, freaking out!! She didn't sleep well, screamed out at night in her sleep. It seemed to help her symptoms tremendously, but the side effects were terrible. | I was afraid to try this for my daughter the second time and rightfully so. My husband and I agreed this will be the last time and we will be much more cautious with the trials of allergy medication in the future. | F | 1 | 7 days | 4/17/2006 | 1 | Gerd | gave this to my son for gerd he would wake up every night in the middle of the night crying like he had pain. We tried changing diet and other things finally went without medicine and he slept great. Wish I had found this site earlier, I had researched but not found anything about stomach pain. He is 19 months | M | 1 | 30 days 7.5 2X day | 8/5/2011 | 1 | asthma | body aches, vomiting, night terros, moody, | He only took the medication for a week. He first started spitting up a little bit of his food while having meals. Then he started with a little cough that led into vomiting. Then he started waking up at night with stomach aches. Then he started crying like if everything hurt. He did not wanted to be picked up. I found him pulling his hair and his ear lobe. I believe his ears were either ringing or hurting. All this in just a matter of days. He is not taking it today. I just called his Pediatrician. | M | 1 | 7 days | 3/3/2008 | 1 | exercised induced asthma | it was for my son who was 1 1/2 at the time, within minutes of taking the granulants he began projectile vomiting. He began acting in what I can only describe as a bad trip. He was running back in forth from myself to my husband screaming in terror as if he didnt know us. he would look around like he was seeing things flying through the air. I told his doctor who said to try it one more time to see if it was the "Nausia" so we did and got the same results. We immediatley took our son off of this prescription. | M | 1 | 2 days | 4/4/2008 | 1 | Asthma and allergies | My son was on this for one day and he had horrible panic and anxiety attacks. Poor thing didn’t even want to go outside and he loves playing outside. He cant stand dog noises either when he loves our dog at home. NOT RECCOMENDED AT ALL! NOT WORTH IT! | M | 1 | 1 days 4 mg | 2/10/2016 | 1 | Pediatric mild asthma | Night terrors hallucinations agression emotional imbalance anxiety crying waking up screaming no refusing to go back to sleep for hours | My 21m old daughter was prescribed for mild exercise induced asthma. After a week on this monster she did not resemble my child anymore. Extreme irritibility waking up with night terrors followed by hallucinations screaming no in her sleep. Heartbreaking experience. She stopped taking it a week ago. The sleep is going back to normal but her emotional state is a wreck. | F | 1 | 21 days 5mg | 10/15/2019 | 1 | Allergy and Child Asthma Preventive | Hallucinations, Night Terrors, Aggression, Screaming at night | SHOULD BE TAKEN OFF THE MARKET. My 20 months old has been having night terrors for about 4 months now and hallucinations this past month. Her grandmother started researching singulair and found the link to hallucinations and night terrors. I have completely stopped giving her this medicine. I can't believe Pediatricians are prescribing this drug to children with these types of side-effects. Every child is different but the risk of a child having hallucinations is not worth it. I wish I caught this earlier. Now I need this medicine to get out my baby's system. | F | 1.5 | 6 months 1X day | 5/14/2018 | 1 | allergies | My 22 mo. old son started taking Singulair last week and has irritable and has been having trouble sleeping. He has always been the best sleeper out of my 3 sons. I remembered reading on the patient leaflet that this could be one of the possible side effects. | After reading the comments on this site, I am planning to take my 3 year old, who has been on Singulair for a year and a half, off it too. I think this is what is causing his repeated waking at night with nightmares and hallucinations. | M | 1.5 | 7 days | 5/21/2007 | 1 | Allergies/Asthma | My son has been taking Singulair granules for approximately 2 weeks now. Doctor stated that if the combination of medicines prescribed (Singulair, Nasonex, and Cefdinir ) did not significantly improve his symptoms within 2-3 weeks, our next option would be to remove the adenoids. While the medicines seemed to "miraculously" cure the eternally runny nose and cough (in just 2 days!) and grant my son his first sound night of sleep in months, the associated side effects have been so scary that we have not given him the medicine in the last two days. During the first week (after about 2 days on the medicines), he would cry that he wanted to "sleep in Mama's bed" and we sometimes gave in and allowed him to do so, as a result of his unconsolable crying.In the last week (days 7-14 of the medication) we have seen him go from a sweet, independent little boy to an aggressive, frightened, uncontrollable child. He has NEVER in his life had problems/fears associated with slee | We follow the same bedtime routine each night; medicine, bath, diaper, singing/praying while rocking in his room, and then placing him in his bed. The moment he feels my body shift to stand up and place him in his crib he begins to tense up his whole body and scream in a manner which is simply almost un-human. He is unable to speak between screams. It takes up to an hour to calm him and even after bringing him into our bed his sleep is restless. He never used to want to be cuddled and cradled while sleeping in our bed. Now, he seems to NEED to hold my face or hand the entire night. If I shift in even the slightest manner while lying there, he panics and wakes up SCREAMING! I tried to let him "cry it out" a few nights to our utter dismay. He actually seemed to have such a breakdown on those nights that he was completely inconsolable and nobody in our household could sleep those nights. The few times I have been able to let him "cry it out" in a somewhat accep | F | 1.8 | 12 days | 9/11/2008 | 5 | asthma | night terror, sleep disruption, aggressive behavior (biting, hitting, pulling hair), increase in thirst, diarrhea, sleepiness during the day | My 22 month-old son has taken this med for 13 days now. Within 48 hours of his first dose, the runny nose, coughing at night/with increased activity, ceased. Originally, I was very impressed. A close friend advised that Singulair has several side-effects and to watch him carefully. I did not recognize the side-effects until reading other postings on this board. He is an active (and sometimes aggressive) little boy. How do I know aggressive behavior is related to drug and not just part of his age? He has hit, bitten, and pulled hair before, but never has he had night terrors. Regardless, I am taking him off the drug and will immediately begin researching alternative medicine approaches...dietary changes, etc. I am so sorry for these other children who have suffered such severe side-effects for such a long time. Thank you to those parents for notifying the rest of us. | M | 1.9 | 13 days | 1/19/2008 | 5 | Sinus infections and wheeezing | My son became aggressive and moody after taking Singular for a week. He would hit and throw a tantrum for no apparent reason. He also became excessively rough with his 3 year old sister and 4 month old brother. He also hit my aunt whom he usuaaly is well behaved with. | Other than behavior issues, he has free of runny noses, snot, coughing, and wheezing. It worked wonderfully for his allergies but I'm not sure the side affects are worth it. | M | 2 | 16 days | 5/15/2007 | 5 | Athsma symptoms | None | My son had two terrible winters - every cold he had resulted in a chronic cough that kept us all awake for days and became incredibly distressing for us all. Between colds was not much better with persistent nighttime cough that made him miserable from Oct-Mar. Summer he is a different boy with no issues. Prescribed inhalers made little difference. First cold of this winter was the worst yet and he coughed so hard for a weekend he was sick and crying from the pain. After I argued that the inhaler was having no effect the doctor prescribed this and his life has become normal. Colds like any other child but no persistent cough. We worried about his behavior over Christmas and after reading this forum reacted be withdrawing the medicine. This was a huge mistake and after a week we reinstated to eliminate the symptoms. The behavior changed were only with us and his childminder had noticed no difference. This medication has been life-changing this winter and any side effects we have firmly isolated as the terrible twos. | M | 2 | 2 months 1X day | 2/11/2011 | 4 | chronic asthma | My 2year old son has been taking singulair for his chronic asthma. It really has control his asthma attacks to where every weekend I would spend time in the hospital and now he has not have a attack since on the medication. However, I have notice a dramatic CHANGE on his behavior..at first i thought he was just acting out for a attention... but i realize how it has gradually led to his dramatic change. He doesnt nap and wakes up at night, he also cries a lot at during his sleep. He has been very aggressive during play. He refuses to listen to listen and has many outburst yelling and jumping. My son was very shy and quiet. He was very humble and I'm glad I read comments on this website because I am going to speak to his doctor about it and want him off the medication. Its not worth your child not being his normal self! | M | 2 | 4 months 1X day | 9/28/2010 |