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 | Asthma | Myself-None Daughter-None | I am 29 years old and had been on steroid inhalers since I was a kid. I have been on Singulair for a year and after a month I found I did not need the steroid inhaler anymore. I take a 10mg a day and 10mg loratidine and it is like I do not have Astmha or allergies. My 5 year old daughter was diagnosed with Asthma last fall and has also been on Singulair since. I have not noticed any side effects in her. Of course she expresses dark thoughts sometimes but who doesn't. Most of the time she is happy. Even if I found it was causing mild depression I would probably keep taking it; it is so great to live without asthma and without the side effects of the steroids. | M | 29 | 1 years | 3/27/2008 | 5 | Allergies, Allergic Rhinitis | I had no side effects from this medication that I know of. | This worked great for my environmental allergies. I had allergies so bad my glands would swell and I would ache like I had a mild cold. Since taking this my allergies have been greatly under control. I take it probably 9 months out of the year, excluding the winter when everything outside is dead. My mom and dad also take this. My mom is 53 and has no side effects. My dad is 54 and said he had weird dreams when first taking it but nothing since. | M | 29 | 3 years | 2/10/2008 | 5 | Severe asthma | None whatsoever! | This is a miracle drug if you have severe asthma! I've been on it for 2 years. The past 1 year, I don't even have to use daily inhalers as prevention like Serevent and Flovent! I have my life back thanks to Singulair! | F | 29 | 2 years | 10/21/2005 | 5 | asthma | F | 29 | 3 years 1X day | 9/23/2010 | 3 | Allergy | none | I have mild to moderate allergies throught the year. However I Lost completed sense of smell about a year ago, doctor prescribed singulair and after about 2 weeks for the first time I could smell and helped with allergies. Unfortunately have to continue to keep the benefits. | M | 29 | 2 weeks | 6/8/2005 | 3 | Asthma and allergies | My almost 4 year old has had issues with ear infections and breathing since birth. He began taking Singulair about 4 or 5 months ago when our ENT suggested that he had his adnoids removed and I decided to take him back to the pediatrician to discuss it first. After reading all of the comments posted, I am beginning to wonder if all of my son's behavior that my husband and I have noted in the past few months is attributed to it or to something else. I am going to stop giving him Singulair for 2 weeks to see if his behavior changes. I hope that is long enough to get it out of his system. If anyone has any feedback, please share. | F | 29 | 6 months | 10/24/2009 | 3 | Chronic Sinusitis/Rhinitis | insomnia; dry mouth | Pros: very effective at treating my chronic nasal passage inflammation and allows me to breath through my nose at night Cons: I am getting 25-50% of the sleep that I used to. I cannot keep up with a lack of sleep, as has and will start to further impact my daily work. | M | 29 | 1 weeks | 4/2/2009 | 2 | asthema based on allergies | The first two weeks - nothing. Now I am exhausted. Mind keeps racing but body feels weak. No motivation to do anything and groggy throughout the day. Stopping this medication immediately with hopes that a normal life will come back. I will gladly resort to my inhaler. | I haven't had to use my inhaler since I started it. However, the trade off is not worth it. I want my life back. | F | 29 | 21 days 10 mg 1X day | 9/13/2010 | 2 | Seasonal Allergies | I gradually changed. I used to get out of bed like a pop tart and am always on time for work. I eventually didn't want to wake up in the morning, didn't care if I lost my job and would cry all the time for no reason. I finally got to a point where I was driving in my car thinking about running my car off the road into a wall doing 80 on the highway. I just wanted the sadness gone. I am stopping this medication today! | It did clear up the constant runny nose and itchy eyes. The sinus pressure was mostly gone, but I basically thought about sleeping or killing myself all the time about 4 weeks in. | F | 29 | 6 weeks 10 mg 1X day | 8/25/2010 | 2 | asthma and Mast Cell Activation Syn | Weight gain....Insomnia | F | 29 | 30 days 1X day | 3/25/2013 | 1 | Asthma | Depression, moodiness, extreme sensitive, weepy, anxiety, muscle ache, hard time focusing, very tired but could not sleep, when able to sleep vivid dreams that fell right in with my depression and sensitive. | This is sad for me. The drug did wonders for my asthma. I had no use for the inhaler since I started but then one day at work Depression and extreme sensitive just hit me like a freight train. I had to take a 30 min break because I was scared and shaking so bad I could not work. Glad it was Friday. I continued taking it over the weekend and was ok. Then on Monday it hit me again and I was barely able to finish my day. Monday night was the worst I couldnĘt sleep and when I did I had dreams that scared me. In the course of 6 hours I woke up about 20 times. Tuesday I left work early and went home to rest and play with my children and couldnĘt keep from crying all day. That night I stopped taking it and prayed that it was the problem. I write this on Thursday feeling significantly better now. I can work and am only slightly down and sensitive. I like the drug but the depression and sensitive is too much for me to handle. | M | 29 | 14 days | 8/25/2005 | 1 | Cough, asthma | Increased anxiety, restless sleep, headaches, stomach aches, despondency/depression, suicidal thinking | I've always been a very solid, happy person with very predictable moods. Since I started Singulair, I became increasingly irritable, but I shrugged it off, assuming it was work related. I've also felt confused, dizzy, and absent-minded. Within the past two weeks my anxiety has been higher than ever, and I became listless. Everything felt so dark and so hopeless to the point where I thought I needed to be checked in to a hospital and treated for severe depression. I have never, ever experienced that type of thinking in my life, and luckily that's when I stopped and took a look at my medication's side effects. I was shocked to read these testimonials, and I'm certain that Singulair is responsible. | F | 29 | 4 months 1X day | 7/5/2012 | 1 | alleregys | depression, tingling in hands, very sleepy-missed work, headaches, nightmares, brain fog, made my tourettes worse. | F | 29 | 3 weeks | 6/5/2006 | 1 | allergies | when i started taking it i felt really depressed. for 7 years. never thought that couldve been why. one night i accidently took 2, so i googled what can happen. turned out nothing, but thats when i read about people complaining about depression. i stopped taking it for a week, and never felt better. been off of it for a month and my life has completly changed! | do NOT take it | M | 29 | 7 years 10 mg 1X day | 12/4/2010 | 1 | Asthma | My son / age 4 has become very aggressive, defiant, and displays bizzare behaviors, like cutting his hair,pushing and punching people, and not listening. My daughter / age 7 has been wetting the bed, sleep walking, and night terrors. All of these symptoms started about 1 week after they started using Singular consistently. | I reported my concerns to the FDA for more research about the real effects of the singular. | F | 29 | 20 days 5 mg 1X day | 3/13/2010 | 1 | Allergies | Severe anxiety, heart palpitations, constant panic attacks, unusual behavior and thoughts, very upset and easily aggitated, unusual dreams and hallucinations, GI disturbances | I cannot understand how several doctors insist that this is such a wonderful drug. It works therapeutically for asthma but the side effects are horrendous. Drugs work differently on individuals but the ratio of this drug benefiting any individual is outweighed by it's adverse effects. I began taking Singulair in October 2010 and my entire life has spiraled downward. The panic attacks and constant anxiety would never cease. I have been to several doctors and have spent so much money on trying to find out what was wrong with me. It got to the point where I was almost incapable of functioning. I was having 3 to 4 panic attacks weekly and ended up in the hospital on a couple of occasions. I have my bachelor's degree in Psychology and I am currently in nursing school so I was struggling horribly with this turmoil. For those who like to comment on this page and say that maybe we are just crazy and that singulair has worked for them, well that is wonderful in their case. But clearly any intelligent person can see that this many people CANNOT make up all of these side effects. This drug has hurt my relationship and has affected my 11 year old daughter. I started counseling because I am highly against the use of anti-anxiety/antidepressants and of course every doctor I visited said, you are just having anxiety and stress because of school, let me write you a Rx. for an antidepressant. That is not normal but unfortunately that is what is done in todays world. | F | 29 | 4 months 10 1X day | 2/4/2011 | 1 | allergies | Dizziness, light-headedness, anxiety, depression, irritability, headaches, twitchy, tingling sensation. | My Dr specifically said that it had zero side effects, so I took this for about 2.5 weeks before I realized that I felt miserable and put it together that it might be the Singulair making me feel this way. I stopped taking it 5 days ago and still have had bouts of dizziness. I would much rather have allergies than feel this weird. How long will it take for these side effects to wear off? | F | 29 | 2.5 weeks | 3/18/2009 | 1 | Allergies | Nightmares, sleeplessness, anxious, extreme exhaustion, stomach ache, depression, sore throat, palpitations, tightness in chest, couldn't think clearly, couldn't express thoughts, ringing in the ears | After just one day on the medication I noticed an extreme difference in my thoughts and behavior to the point that I stop taking it immediently. I felt like I was trapped in a room knowing I would be tortured at any moment. It's a horrible drug and I can only pray that the FDA will remove it from the market at once. | F | 29 | 1 days | 3/25/2009 | 1 | Seasonal allergies | Anxiety, psoriasis, rage, low testosterone, suicidal thoughts. | DO NOT take Singulair! I was prescribed this for years to help with seasonal allergies, chronic sinusitis, or allergic rhinitis, whatever you want to call it. As the years went on I started being controlled more and more by my emotions. I developed a skin rash all over my body that looked like psoriasis. My testosterone also tanked to clinically low levels. Three weeks after quitting Singulair all of this started to disappear. I have now been off singulair for 5 years and consider it a life-changing decision for the better. Please do not take this, especially if you are considering it for a child. The mental damage is not worth it! | M | 29 | 6 years 10 1X day | 6/30/2022 | 1 | Asthma | First time taking these, straight away my teeth hurt. I had mood swings and my sex drive died almost over night. They do help asthma there is no denying that but the trade off is awful. Hair loss, depression anxiety all of which I have never really suffered from. Being very in tune with my hormones I could sense I was not myself almost instantly. Symptoms did appear to subside. I missed a week or so and my asthma began to worsen again. Once I started again my mind went out the window and rage almost entirely consumed me, not to mention coming out in a severe rash in the space of a couple of days. Would not recommend would rather suffer asthma. | M | 29 | 4 months 20 | 5/27/2020 |