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 | 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 | 5 | allergic rhinitis | I take it at night but it still makes me sleepy during the day. However, I'd rather be sleepy than having miserable allergies! I also experience | I am so glad to have discovered this stuff! I gather it either helps you or it doesn't, and am so glad it helps me! I also take a mind-numbing number of other allergy meds -- allegra, sudafed, flonase, atrovent nasal spray, astelin nasal spray -- but this made the most difference! I still take the other stuff, but this gave me the best spring I've had in YEARS! Oh yes, I take shots too! My allergies are to all inhalants, indoors & out. :-( | F | 56 | 44 days | 6/6/2005 | 4 | allergies and asthma | Recently went through Anaphylatic shock and almost died so have gone through the allergy testing and found myself allegeric to trees, grasses, weeds, mold, farm pollens, dust and dust mites and cats. Allergist started me on Singulair on Oct. 30. It is now Nov. 17th. Take Zyrtec also, and had Nasonex to use. Discontinued the Nasonex when I read another website devoted to the side effects it can cause with some that never go away. I suffered two or three bouts of severe sinus infection a year after a cold and every cold went down into my chest. The constant drainage (how does the human body produce so much snot?)and sinus pressure is gone. Feel like new person but as of Nov. 12th, have abdominal pain and diarrhea. VERY unlike me. Never know when a bout of cramping will result in a rush to find a bathroom. My intestines are rolling and boiling. Seems like anything I eat goes to liquid right away. Since I am past the worst of my allergy season, will stop taking Singulair and watch | As with anything, be aware and extremely cautious. We know our bodies best and we know our children so when we see behaviors changing for the worst, look at the outside source, aka new meds. | M | 56 | 19 days | 11/17/2007 | 3 | Allergies & Asthma | None that I'm aware of. Not sure how effective this medication really is, I still have a constantly runny nose all year long. | F | 56 | 5 years | 2/21/2009 | 3 | asthma flare up | I developed a stomach ache, called the allergy doctor and he recommended I stop Singulair for a few days, then start up again to see if I got the stomach ache again. I stopped the drug, the stomach ache went away - and you know what? I'm not taking this stuff anymore. I am using an inhaler (Dulera) and I'm weaning myself off that too, hoping this asthma flare was just a temporary thing because I do not want to be taking any of this stuff in the long term............ | F | 56 | 22 days 10 mg 1X day | 1/14/2012 | 3 | Rhinitis and possible asthma | Great first few days Swelling of sinus decreased. Day 4,5 noticed extreme muscle twitches. Day 5, couldn't sleep due to muscle twitches, also felt my heart jumping. | Going off of it | F | 56 | 5 days 4 mg | 10/13/2015 | 2 | Allergies, stuffy nose and ears | Extremely dry eyes; vaginal dryness and sexual pain; loss of sexual desire; insomnia; numbness in hands upon waking; weight gain; mood swings; irritable; intolerance to heat. | Normally, I am a happy, energetic lady...but, I have suffered with all of things I have listed for a couple of years now. I have blamed my problems on age, carpal tunnel, hormones, etc. I thought I had really gotten the nerve since menopause. It never occured to me that Singulair could be the culprit, until I heard a mother talking about her child taking Singulair on the morning t.v. show. So, I pulled up this site...I was amazed at how many people have written in with similar symptoms!!! I quit taking Singulair last week. So far, my temperment seems much better (I don't seem to be cursing under my breath as bad), my ears and nose are still extremely clear. I will try not taking Advil p.m. soon (I need my sleep). I will write back in a few weeks with my update. Thanks to everyone for sharing. | F | 56 | 2 years | 3/4/2008 | 1 | Allergy | Severe depression, severe insomnia after only one pill. | I'm afraid to take it again. | M | 56 | 1 days | 2/26/2009 | 1 | asthma | muscle cramps and soreness; cold, tingling feet and hands; elevated fasting blood sugar; anxiety and mood swings | I wanted my side effects not to be caused be Singulair because it really helped my asthma a great deal. However, after reading the reports I decided to experiment and not take it for two weeks, and was amazed to find that my extreme anxiety and mood swings (crying jags, etc.) disappeared within a week! I had thought it was menopause symptoms all this time. Also gone are nightly painful muscle cramps, my feet and hands are warm again, and my fasting blood sugar fell by 25 points. Great for asthma, but bad for me. I will not take Singulair again. | F | 56 | 4 years | 6/23/2008 | 1 | problems smelling | Severe sinus pressure, causing pain and headaches | Coughing might have been due to Singulair as well | F | 56 | 5 weeks 10 MG 1X day | 11/3/2014 | 5 | due to my astma attach | none whatsoever | excellent as far as i am concern and astma is controlled | F | 57 | 10 years | 9/26/2008 | 5 | allergies | No side effects | Has greatly helped me control my allergies. | F | 57 | 6 years | 5/20/2008 | 3 | asthma | Joint pain, bursitis, racing mind, trouble sleeping | Yes, you read it correctly, on Singulair for 18 years, then the generic aka Montelukast for the past 5 of those 18 years. Have been off of it for 30-days and joint pain is next to nothing. I can sleep through the night!!! It should have been a red flag to me and my doctor when shortly after getting on Singulair in 1999 that I developed bursitis in my shoulders, symptoms of arthritis, and an extremely racy-spacey-dark-thoughts mind. For years I was on Vioxx to ward off the pain - until it was taken off the market. Also, to deal with the brain fog/racy-spacey mind was put on Adderall and was on it for 10-years. I found a new pulmonary doctor and he put me on Arnuity. (FYI, when my asthma was not bad I would split my pills to 5mg and at times down to 2.5mg but could not totally be off of Singulair/Montelukast without the asthma coming back.) | F | 57 | 18 days 10 MG 1X day | 1/17/2018 | 2 | Chronic rhinitis | Increased appetite (I was eating everything in sight and even dreaming about food), panic attacks, lethargy, feeling like I was about to black out, and worst of all, the most severe migraine I've ever had. | It seemed to help the chronic runny nose a little, but not enough to put up with the awful side effects. I stopped taking it after the severe headache began, and haven't tried it since. | F | 57 | 6 days | 11/19/2005 | 2 | Allergies to pets/dust etc | Mood swings, depression, lack of focus, respiratory distress symptoms when I stopped taking this drug. | I've had allergies to cats, dust and molds all my life. I have been generally healthy except for exposure to these allergens. Singulair really helped prevent asthma symptoms but I noticed when I stopped taking it I had respiratory distress symptoms even though no having no exposure to allergens. After about two weeks the feeling of "I need to go back on singulair" would go away as well as the respiratory distress symptoms. It was like I was addicted to this drug and needed to keep taking it to stay healthy. Since I've reacted to specific allergens my whole life when only when exposed it didn't make sense to me to be feeling this way each time I stopped taking singulair. I'm done with this drug! | M | 57 | 1 years | 5/5/2009 | 1 | asthma | flue like systoms agitation fever | my doctor and drugest both said that it would not cause these symtoms .I think they maybe getting a kick back on this drug.I stoped taking the drug and feeling alot better. | M | 57 | 10 days 10 mg 1X day | 8/21/2011 | 1 | Severe allergies | I couldn't sleep the first few nights. Then started experiencing feelings of extreme anger, depression, paranoia, unable to concentrate and some suicidal thoughts. My wife was asking me the last couple of days I took it if I was OK, making comments that I seemed depressed, and what was I so angry about. The 6th day (3 days ago) I wrote a very angry incoherant rant in an email at work which got me into trouble. I don't really remember much about it other than I was in an extremly angry and agitated state of mind for no reason whatsoever. This type of behavior is not in my character at all. I'm the type of person that always goes out of his way to be kind and courteous to others. My manager said so and thankfully could see that I was not in my right mind during this time of mental instability I was experiencing. Worked great for reliving my allergies, but unfortunately it makes me mentally and emotionally unstable. I'm just thankful I realized how the medication was affecting me before i | M | 57 | 7 days 10 1X day | 6/11/2015 | 1 | Asthma | Experienced mood swings and periods of depression. Don't know how much has to do with the drug. It sort of knocks you out at night. | I believe the drug has harmful side effects not totally told to consumers. | M | 57 | 10 months 10mg | 10/29/2016 | 5 | Asthma maintenance | I don't recall any side effects. I had been on it for several years about 14, 15 years ago. But, when I started at another practice (medical school), Singulair was replaced by one of those inhaled cortisone inhalers. They helped, some, but I thought the dr would just supplement the Singulair to get me through the difficult fall season. Otherwise, it had worked just fine. The inhalers worked for awhile, then quit helping. I've had about four or five of them. I've asked for the Singulair back each time one quilt helping, but the doctors all said these inhalers were soooo much better, let's try another one. Never having lasting effects, and very expensive, especially when starting a new fiscal year with insurance deductibles, I asked the doctor again, for the Singulair. "Why, when you keep saying it doesn't work" I reminded them that it was the cortisone inhalers that didn't help after a few months, they were too expensive, and Singulair DID work, even though I might need a boost in the fall season. Singulair is what works best for me. I have quit all of those cortisone inhalers doctors are so determined to keep me on. I use the ProAir inhaler maybe 3 times a month, or the nebulizer when I get a cold. I had to practically beg to get the Singulair back last fall from yet another practice, then I had to leave since they mismanaged my thyroid treatment. I'm not going to let the current practice take the Singulair tablets away. It works, I have no side effects, | Doctors need to realize that a medicine DOES NOT need to be expensive to work well. I get SOOO frustrated that they think we want expensive inhalers (that then quit working after awhile, and/or give us other health problems. Then, doctors (and nurses) deny that the inhalers are at fault. "It can't be the inhaler! Are you using it correctly? I never heard of that effect with this medicine before! They just list those to scare people! You sound on the edge of paranoia!" Seriously??? I smell kickbacks. | F | 58 | 3 months 10 | 1/28/2015 | 5 | Allergic Rhinitis & Post Nasal drip | No side effects. | Love it, I don't take any other hay fever medication, | F | 58 | 14 months 10mg 2X W | 11/21/2020 |