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 | asthma; wheezing, night cough | Nightmares. | I gave my son one pill. After he went to bed I searched for side effects. I saw all the terrible reviews and hoped for the best. I won't put him on steriods because he is very small for his age and I don't want his growth delayed. He woke up with nightmares all night. He whimpered and shook as he lay beside me sleeping. My heart broke. I'm so glad I knew this was a side effect so I could immediately stop giving it to him. We're looking into alternative treatment (traditional chinese medicine). | F | 32 | 1 days | 1/22/2010 | 1 | I just have to say that after reading all of these reviews...WHY WOULD A DR STILL PRESCRIBE THIS TO ANY CHILD????? This drug should be taken off the market!!! My friend has her son on this and as I am reading this it is exactly what she is telling me he is doing....This is absolutely insane...No mother or father should have to go through any of this...Singulair is NOT for children...As it shows in most all of these reviews that it affects the persons whole being...Seriously think long and hard before you put your child on this medication. | F | 32 | | 1/23/2009 | 1 | allergies | serious depression, and suicidal thoughts | took it for three months and couldn't figure out why I was so unhappy. have a great life and wrote that I wished I were dead one night. completely out of character. stopped using because I ran out, heard of the warning and stopped all together. depression and thoughts were gone within a week. allergies also not so bad either. | F | 32 | 3 months | 9/20/2008 | 1 | Asthma | joint pain, mood swings, weight gain, unexplained phobies | It took a lot of research and over a year to determine the side effects were from the medication as all the side effects were so different. eventually after many trips to sports medicine for my joints and the doctor for my unfounded new fears i traced everything back to the same time i started the medicine. ALL side effects were gone within 2 months of stopping use. Please, do not take this medicine. it is scary what it does to people. | M | 32 | 1.5 years 1X day | 3/24/2011 | 1 | Allergies/Asthma | Nervousness, inability to concentrate, emotional outbursts, mood swings, anger, depression, lower back ache, headache, waking up a few times a night, shooting pains in my feet, problems getting to sleep because my mind is racing. | I had a bad bout with asthma that led to pneumonia and was prescribed this to get things under control. It worked well to control the breathing problems but the side effects are not worth it! I saw the warning about depression on the pill bottle but didn't think much of it at first. Be careful taking this drug! | F | 32 | 40 days 10 MG 1X day | 11/16/2010 | 1 | allergies | This medicine should be banned. It caused panic,anxiety, confusion and depression. I woke up several times in the night with a racing heartbeat. | M | 32 | 28 days 1X day | 11/16/2010 | 1 | Allergies | I began having sternum pain. Then my elbows, knees, back, and hips started hurting. I thought I was getting arthritis or fibromyalgia. Finally, I realized I had just started a new medication. Pain subsided less than a week after I stopped taking the medicine. | F | 32 | 3 weeks | 5/4/2013 | 1 | allergy/exercise induced asthma | weight gain/obsession with food, constipation/abdominal discomfort, extreme daytime fatigue and nighttime sleeplessness, itchy back and skin, vaginal dryness, trouble with contact lenses/eye dryness | None of my symptoms were listed in Rx package inserts. I had convinced myself that my symptoms were abstract...never connected to recently beginning Singulair until I found these posts! Don't second guess yourself, trust your instinct! This may not be the right Rx for some of us! | F | 32 | 3 weeks | 6/28/2006 | 1 | allergies/ashtma | My 2 yr. old nephew was on the med. for one month. He had extreme spells of irritability and nightmares, banging head on floor, hurting self, bloody nose, crying for hours and hours. Total change in personality. | VERY scary for entire family. It angers me that this company says this med. is safe for children. It is most definitely not, especially when it takes parents about 30 days or so to connect the dots. | F | 32 | 30 days | 5/3/2006 | 5 | Asthma/Allergies | Mood swings, depression, suicidal thoughts | Both my son and I have been taking SIngulair for a year or more. I have not noticed any negative side effects until recently. I have had a plethora of moments where I can't seem to shake a dark mood. I am prone to these "phases" and have thought nothing of it. I have not been taking this medicine for a few days and already I am noticing a change. I CAN'T BREATHE AT NIGHT! I wake up once or twice and have to rely on my inhaler. I don't want to think that I must live with either bad moods or breathing problems. This medicine has helped me with the later, but I just can't be sure it's the cause of the depression as of late. My son has had zero sinus infections since he has been on this medication and I haven't really noticed a change in his behavior. But thanks to a few posters, I am going to seek an alternative to this medication. | F | 31 | 1 years | 4/21/2009 | 5 | Allergies | None, worked as I expected | I felt like I had to leave a review because of all the negativity. Not to dismiss them, but I want people to read this and see that not all experiences are bad. I am a football coach and took it for two years because the allergy issues I had when I only took an antihistamine was unbearable. Singulair relieved probably 85-90% of my allergy issues. I finally got off of Singulair because I decided to do allergy shots instead. Would recommend to anyone with the time and means to get shots. If not, go with Singulair. I had ZERO issues with it. | M | 31 | 2 years 10MG 1X day | 2/5/2023 | 4 | Asthma and chronic rhinitis | Flushed face, nightmares, lactose intolerance, and increased sensitivity to acidic foods. | It worked very well in treating my asthma, allergies, and sinus symptoms. Unfortunately I couldn't deal with the digestive issues it caused and discontinued the medication. I never determined if the flushed face and nightmares were directly caused by Singulair. | F | 31 | 30 days | 1/31/2006 | 3 | Asthma | I am glad I came across this website. I am generally a happy go lucky person. In the past year or so I have experienced wild mood swings, anger issues and sometimes depression. I am scared to go off because it actually works and helps control my asthma. I am 31 years old and play a sport with need for lots of endurance. I will be speaking to my dr. about other options. Geez... Glad its the meds and I am not this mean person:) | M | 31 | 7 years 10mg 1X day | 12/24/2010 | 3 | Allergic rhinitis | After 3 days, although my allergy symptoms had completely subsided, I started experiencing nausea around the clock. Then came the anxiety and ocd symptoms. On the 9th day I felt the most terrifying racing heart and palpitations. And on day ten my mind was racing so much I felt like I should be committed. I will never take it again. | It DID help reduce my allergy symptoms significantly, along with Flonase and Claritin. | F | 31 | 10 days 10MG | 2/10/2017 | 2 | Chronic Bronchitis | Depression, cloudy feeling, more irritable, Acid reflux issues, longer menstral periods, anxiety, HORRIBLY DARK thoughts. | I thought I was going NUTS! I went to my Dr. because of my symptoms and he thought my hormones must be out of wack. After exams and blood work, everthing came back fine. It NEVER occured to me that this medicine could cause all of my problems. I'm glad to have found this site... maybe I can try to get back a year of my life!!!!! I would rather have bronchitis than continue feeling like this! | F | 31 | 1 years | 4/3/2008 | 2 | SINGULAIR | This drug was giving to my daughter at the age of 2 if she was having side effects, she wasn't able to explaine them not knowing any different. | Been given this drug at the age of two and now five we are no longer giving her singular. Rather this is wrong or right we have taken her off of it as parents. As a mother I have always wonder why this girl can't sleep all night??! When the drug was filled we NEVER had any information of possible side effects now after 3 1/2 year everthing is coming to a head. Side effect of restlessness, tingling (always itching hand and feet) split seconds of mood changes, who would of ever know? This poor little 5 year old has not taken singulir for the past 2 days and we are already seeing improvements in her sleep and being able to sleep soundly! We will be meeting with an Allergy, Asthma specialist next week it will be interesting to see what it is he says and what kind of drugs he will put her on? I know it won't be singulair. This was the drug of choice to keep this little girl under control with her asthna and she have been admited atleast a year to our local hosptial. | F | 31 | 3 years | 1/17/2008 | 1 | My daughter took for mild asthma | Violent trantrums that were uncontrollable, leg pain, sleeplessness, weepiness, clingy behaivior. | My daughter is 7 and has mild Asthma. She was prescribed singulair 3 weeks ago and I have just today put two and two together. Over the past weeks she has tantrums every day, all day about the smallest matters. She has expressed wanting to hurt her sister and is just completely miserable 90% of the time. I am taking her off of this medication immediately! | F | 31 | 3 weeks | 1/29/2009 | 1 | asthma | anxiety, panic attacks, depression, almost completely mute, O.C.D. | My daughter has been taking Singulair for many years(she is only 11), she has been in theropy for many different problems, and we have had many different things told to us not knowing that Singulair might be to blame, she is on an anti-anxiety and an anti-depressant, she was also on other meds. for panic attacks. She has also been almost mute except at home, for years. I just found out about this and I am feeling very guilty about giving her something I thought was helping her asthma and may have robbed her of years of her life.I certainly hope someone starts a lawsuit against this company. | F | 31 | 5 years | 3/5/2009 | 1 | child | My 18 months son changed his behavior and become aggressive. He bites himself and crying. Sometimes shouting and trouble sleep. | F | 31 | 5 days 4 mg 1X day | 11/23/2010 | 1 | asthma/allergies | I took this medicine on and off for 4 years. I went back on it about 8 months ago after over 1 year off of it b/c my asthma was bad again. I am naturally a bit anxious so didn't realize until I started doing some experimenting with my medicine. I was having extremely bad/vivid dreams, more persistant and intense anxiety and frequent diarrhea and stomache upset. I take a lot of other drugs for asthma so it was difficult to single this one out. Wow what a difference in my life. I can't believe that none of the 5 doctors I have seen ever mentioned the side effects, clearly they are downplayed too much. IT DOES help my asthma, but is NOT worth it! | F | 31 | 4 years 10 mg 1X day | 9/14/2010 |