| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR SINGULAIR | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
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| 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 D | 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 |
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