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 | Asthms | I'm a peaceful, calm spirit. This drug made my heart flutter and gave me high anxiety. | F | 46 | 7 days 10 MG | 7/29/2016 | 1 | Asthma | Sudden hyperactivity, insomnia all night, racing and erratic heartbeat, feeling very lightheaded and strange, bitter taste in the mouth. | Quite a scary experience and not much improvement in mucus reduction as far as asthma was concerned. I won't use this drug again! | F | 46 | 3 days 10 MG 1X day | 11/12/2014 | 1 | Asthma cough | Severe anxiety and depression. Paralysis of thought. Unable to do anything. Emotional wreck. Frequent suicidal thoughts. | Initially took it for 3 months but saw no improvement in cough so discontinued. Tried again this year with higher dose inhaled steroids. Symptoms occured quite quickly. IF look back to when i took it last year mental state wasn't that good already so didn't put the worsening of it down to singulair. This year mental health good and side effects severe!! | F | 46 | 14 days 10mg 1X day | 6/11/2015 | 1 | Asthma & Allergies | Headaches, jaw pain, tingling and numbness in legs, tremors in arms, and increased anxiety attacks. Body felt so weird I had to go to the ER. | It worked for my asthma and allergies but the side affects are not worth it! Will be stopping immediately and hopefully I will return to myself! | F | 46 | 2 months 30 MG | 10/14/2015 | 1 | nasal cogestion allergy | Vivid and odd nightmares the very first night, agitation, agressiveness, confusion, inability to concentrate, severe respiratory infection, wheezing, insomnia. | WOW, very bad for me. Be very careful. Moderate improvement in nasal congestion but not at all worth the side effects. | M | 46 | 20 days | 4/8/2008 | 1 | doctor recommended for asthma | CHRONIC HIVES BIG WELTS ALL OVER MY BODY, SEVERE NIGHTMARES, HEADACHES, ITCHING ALL OVER, DEPRESSION, BIG WEIGHT GAIN, BEWARE WHEN TAKING THIS DRUG YOU MAY GET CHRONIC SIDE EFFECTS LIKE ME?I was having problems with breathing for the first time in my life. I had to go to the ER about 3 different times in about 2& 1/2 weeks. They had started me on prednisone and an inhaler. The 3rd time in the ER the on call doctor was concerned and wanted to admitted me. My husband thought he was helping me out and said lets get to the bottom of this. They did and an other doctor said to take singulair and continue taking the prednisone. | That is when everything started. It has been a nightmare for me. I stopped taking the singlar but have to continue taking the prednisone to control the CHRONIC HIVES I get daily. I have had a CT scan, lots and lots of blood work. They have not found anything. I can not get off the prednisone because the hive get really bad. I am now going to a specialist who is going to try some cancer drugs to get me off the prednisone which I have been on for 6 months at 15mg a day and am getting side effects from it. Some days I don't know how I can make it through the day. But I try and I keep Praying. My husband has told me that he feels like it is his fault. I don't blame him. But he has to watch me go through this daily and it's tearing him up not being able to do any thing.( My husband which he could go back in time and never let them admit me.)After about two months I stopped the singular. | F | 46 | 46 years | 1/4/2007 | 1 | Allergies | Extremely tired, flu like symptoms | I'm aching all over and feel like I have the flu! | F | 46 | 30 days 10 1X day | 1/17/2011 | 1 | Allergies | Acid Reflux, Nightmares, Eye Twitching, Nervousness, Anxiety | The very first night I took it, I experienced several different vivid, bad dreams. I looked up side effects and found that bad dreams were a potential side effect, although the pharmacist tried to assure me that it must have been a coincidence. I have had several restless nights and bad dreams since. The acid reflux has been horrible and doesn't stop even though I've taken Nexxium, Tums, and Maalox all at the same time! The eye twitching has also been very annoying because it's non stop! I will stop taking Singulair. | F | 46 | 3 weeks 10 MG 1X day | 4/20/2011 | 1 | tighness in throa | Immediately felt anxious, pounding in chest, and appox. 4 hours later my left arm was tingling. I felt "fuzzy" headed, not happy will not take another one again. | Would like to know how long it takes to get the 5mg's out of my system. | F | 46 | 1 days 5 mg 1X day | 6/23/2010 | 5 | For my asthma | none | Have had severe asthma all of my life. I was on a ton of other old-school asthma drugs at very high doses before taking Singular. Now all I take is 10mg at night. I am symptom free. | F | 45 | 9 years 10mg 1X day | 4/7/2010 | 5 | Athsma/Allergies | No side affects. I don't have mood swings or nightmares. Nothing. | I started taking singulair because I would get so sick and my nasel congestion due to allergies 2x a year (fall/spring). What a difference. It's like I never get "colds" anymore. I used to feel I had a cold all year long, but after singulair I have no more colds. It's great! My life has changed. I used to loose my voice completely, and I have it all the time now. People should know that my allergies get worse with humidity/heat. When it's cold and very little humidity, I'm great. Unfortunately I still live where it is very humid. I also take claritin D with my singulair. I NEVER have to use my inhalers anymore!! These are the ONLY 2 drugs I take. If I forget to take them, I start with head aches and nasel congestion. Even people at my work notice if I forget to take them. I should mention that I get very tired if I DON"T take these meds. It's hard to breath without singulair and I get very tired. I'm definately more awake and alert. I have year-around allergies and exersiesed induced athsma. I'm also dyslexic. | F | 45 | 10 years 10 mg 1X day | 10/28/2011 | 5 | Asthma | Allergy testing came back negative but when I kept having cold weather induced asthma my doctor wanted me to try this. I'm already on symbicort & was doing good except cold weather. Well, the montelukestat helped it completely. We had a very cold winter this year & I was totally fine outdoors. Also I don't have any of the side effects some people mentioned, I feel great!!! | F | 45 | 9 months 10 mg | 2/19/2017 | 4 | asthma | I've been on/off Singulair for about 5 years now. I feel best when I'm on it but the nightmares were overwhelming and truly frightening after a while. BUT my doctor had me start taking the Singulair in the morning instead of nightime and that worked! The nightmares went away and it's great. I do still get them sometimes when I'm very stressed out but they're minor, not like the big ones I used to get when I took it at night. Try mornings! It works! | F | 45 | 5 years | 2/27/2006 | 4 | Asthma | Slight fatigue. | Singulair has been very effective in controlling my asthma. Because it tends to make me drowsy I take it at bedtime. | M | 45 | 5 years | 6/11/2002 | 3 | asthma | Prescribed Singulair last year. Miracle drug for first three weeks, then terrible terrible constant palpitations. | Had tests to ensure nothing wrong with heart. Taken off Singulair. Palpitations went away after a few days! Prescribed again earlier this month - no palpitations as yet, but terrible stomach upsets and nightmares. Fluid Retention too, which is nice. | F | 45 | 15 days | 8/29/2006 | 3 | asthma | Prescribed Singulair last year. Miracle drug for first three weeks, then terrible terrible constant palpitations. | Had tests to ensure nothing wrong with heart. Taken off Singulair. Palpitations went away after a few days! Prescribed again earlier this month - no palpitations as yet, but terrible stomach upsets and nightmares. Fluid Retention too, which is nice. | F | 45 | 15 days | 8/29/2006 | 3 | asthma | At first, Singular worked great, turned off my Fall asthma like a switch. The past 2 years, it seems like it is not working as well as it used to. I developed eye twitches that lasted for many weeks, conjuntival cysts on my eye after starting the medicine (Last fall and the fall before that). I cannot sleep well when on Singulair. This year, the sleep problems are huge, i don't remember them being this bad before. After 3 days on this, I decided to quit Singulair. I can't handle the lack of sleep and a 3rd year of eye twitching. | I thought the symptoms were unique to me and not reported by others using Singulair but I am seeing others with same symptoms. I am a little dismayed that when I told the Dr the side affects and she could see my eye twitching herself, didn't say anything. She even sent me to an eye specialist to see about the headaches, conjunctival cysts, and eye twitching. I was dismissed by the specialist as wasting his time. It was nothing important that I had. While Singulair worked great the first few years I took it (I only take it Sept-Dec), the side effects have become too much for me and after 4 days of being on it this year, I am quitting. | F | 45 | 4 years 10 1X day | 8/26/2010 | 3 | Dog/cat allergies | I am extremely allergic to dogs/cats but I live with 3 dogs and am involved in animal welfare. I have tried other OTC and prescription medications with not much relief. I researched Singulair and read the reviews. I asked my doctor to write me a prescription and mentioned all of the reviews where I had read about the side effects of nightmares and suicidal thoughts. He laughed it off and asked me if I believed everything I read on the internet (I will not be seeing him again). I told him no, but that there were so many people saying the same things. I began taking Singulair and could finally breathe again and not spend my days blowing my nose and sneezing. Almost immediately I started having crazy dreams and they felt like they went on all night so I was exhausted in the morning. After several months I wasn't dreaming as much but now my whole body seems sore all of the time. I'm 45 and feel like an old woman when I get up after I've been sitting a while. I don't take any other medications | F | 45 | 8 months 1X day | 1/26/2016 | 2 | Asthma | Body numbness, aches & shooting pain in left leg. Vaginal pain/numbness/sore, sometimes feels like I may have UTI. | My asthma seems better, but the side effects are unpleasant. | F | 45 | 8 days 10mg 1X day | 10/15/2020 | 2 | asthma and allergies | very crippling migraine, extreme lethargy | but did not need my inhaler once the whole week (usually 12-16 times a day). But will probably stop taking them due to migraines and fatigue. | M | 45 | 7 days | 2/18/2006 |