| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR SINGULAIR | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
  | F M | | | | |||
| 1 | allergies and asthma | severe anxiety, hallucinations, unable to sleep due to terrifying dreams, self-harm behavior, sadness, agoraphobia, separation anxiety | My son has been on Singulair for 4 years now and is 4.5 now. On April 22, 2011, he developed severe separation anxiety, agoraphobia, hallucinations, severe sadness, self-harm behaviors, and difficulty sleeping due to terrifying dreams. Over the course of three days we were in the emergency room 3 times due ot this behavior. On the 3rd emergency room visit, he was admitted to Helen Devos Children's Hospital. Doctors were baffled at his behavior using Ativan, Versed, Haldol, and Risperidone to attempt to help. We had to put restraints on him as his symptoms increased in intensity to keep him safe as he was trying to bite off his fingers, scratching at his skin, and banging his head. He had brain scans and an EEG. He was seen by neurology, psychiatry, infectious disease, toxicology, etc. After being hospitalized and with no relief from the anti-psychotic medications for 3 days, a psychiatrist found infomation on the internet about psychosis in children who were taking Singulair. With no answers yet, and nothing else to do, she tried taking him off of the drug. With in 3 days, he was back to normal, and happier than ever. He's been off the drug for 12 days. He has had 3 episodes of anxiety attacks since then, but nothing like he had in the hospital. Are you going through this too? PLEASE contact me! | M | 4 | 4 years 4mg 1X D | 5/9/2011 | 1 | Asthma | thoughts of dying, scared, bad dreams, very short temper, aggressive, hyperactive, angry complete change of personality | My daughter was prescibed Singulair after a hospital admission. Her Asthma is thought to be triggered by viruses. The tablets seemed to have good effect with regards to her Asthma. She has been in and out of hospital too much in her short life and i was really hopeful that we had found something to help her. A month later her baby sister was born, she became very aggressive, would get extremely angry at the smallest thing and scream and shout, she had nightmares about fires and was scared to stay at friends who had an open fire. She would hit out and not listen, she was impossible to reason with and could not sit still at all. Her pre-school teachers started to ask if she was on Steriods as they knew these made her hyper, but she wasnt. This drug has it's place, but it's not right for my child, her behaviour was blamed on having a new baby around, i felt awful when i realised. After a week of stopping it she was calmer, after three i had my lovely affectionate, good little girl back, be very careful to monitor side effects if you have to try this drug, it certainly doesnt seen to be good for alot of children. | F | 4 | 1 years 2mg 1X D | 10/9/2012 | 1 | asthma | extreme sensitivity, irritability, aggressiveness, depression, anxiety, difficulty sleeping. | I am filling this information in based on experiences with my son. Singulair was a miracle for us when he first began taking it just after his 2nd birthday and worked well for the first year. At the beginning of his 2nd year on the meds he started showing the symptoms above. We took him off the singulair and maintained his other asthma meds as previously prescribed...the symptoms disappeared completely after about 2 months. No other changes to his meds were made. | M | 4 | 2 years | 11/28/2004 | 1 | Allergies | My 4 year old daughter was halicunating. She would sit up in bed and scream for me to cover her eyes. Each night she saw bubbles that would "painfully" pop by her face. Also, she wet the bed for the first time in 1.5 years. She cries over every little thing and is emotional. I am stopping this medication right now. I can't believe this is on the market! I am furious! | F | 4 | 3 months | 4/4/2007 | 1 | seasonal allerigies/asthma | my son's behavior changed dramatically after 5 days on this drug. he became aggressive, crazy, ultra-sensitive. i took him off after finding this web site. thank you all!! he is back to normal after three days off and using nebulizer as before. | this drug contains aspartame, something my pediatrician did not tell me. aspartame gives me headaches and makes me "foggy". i stopped drinking diet coke years ago because of the effects. | M | 4 | 5 days | 2/24/2006 |
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