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 | VERY MOODY, aggressive, excessive crying, huge mood swings, depressed, poor self esteem, he felt horrible about himself, cried himself to sleep for days. weight gain, always hungry, itchy | def helped his asthma symptoms but at the cost of his happiness. The minute I figured out the horrible side effects we took him off it! And 2 days off the med he is much happier. I feel so bad my boy was so unhappy for so long with me thinking he was having true behavior problems! USERS OF THIS MEDICATION BEWARE!!!!!!!!!!! | M | 8 | 6 years 5mg 1X day | 5/11/2011 | 1 | Asthma | Anger, bedwetting, fighting, itching feet, sleep walking, bad dreams | My son has been on Singulair for 3 years now. He has been moody, angry, wets the bed, fights with his sisters, and is rude. His feet will itch him so bad that he wants to cry. He will say that nobody likes him and that everyone is mean to him. He will wake up crying and say that he had a bad dream. At times he will sleep walk and become aggressive if we try and put his PJ's on him. We thought he had an anger problem and were going to take him to the Dr. to see if he needed depresssion meds. I am a RN and never even thought it could be from the Singulair. I am sooooo glad that I found this site! I told my son about it and he is so happy that this could be the answer to his anger. When asked why he is angry he just tells me that he doesn't know. This med did help his Asthma but he will never take it again. I am ready to have my child back. | M | 8 | 3 years 5mg 1X day | 8/15/2011 | 1 | Allergies | My daughter's psychiatrist warned me that this medication may cause behavioral problems and I didnt believe her. My daughter had taken it the year prior with no problems. However, this year, my daughter started taking it and after two consecutive weeks she was showing aggressive behavior, stomach pain, anxiety, and sever frustration overall. She gained weight in the two short weeks she took it. I am shocked. I have had my son on this medication for over 6 years without any obvious issues. I am however taking him off after learning of all the problems that have started coming out about this medication. | F | 8 | 2 years 5mg 1X day | 8/17/2011 | 1 | Allergies | Hallucination, night terror, fear, anxiety, restless, insomnia, etc. My two boys 7 and 8, and myself 38 has been on this drug 6 months and longer,and I NEVER did the connection to this drug till a friend of mine mention her problem with her child and had made the connection to this medication. I found this site and I was very much disturbed reading other parents description on their children. It was like reading my own children's problem. My son after being on this med were telling me he saw an angel at night staring at him by his door,both boys were afraid to go to different areas of the house, mode swings, terrified to go to sleep in fear of the bad dreams, 3-4 hours every night before they both could fall asleep, wetting their beds, could not sit still at dinner etc, legs keep moving and they were very restless, teasing each other all the time about everything, crying very easy, both started talking more about death and had a lot of deep questions about it. They were both getting very sensitive about things and very emotional about things, panic attacks, example: one son was very overwhelmed about how he was going to care for his teddy bears and had a panic attack and hyperventilate about it, you could see the fear in their eyes. Fear about the weather all the time... I can go on and on and on and my two boys had changed so much in just six months. I thought maybe they were just going through a phase. I also have a third boy who is five who didn't have any of this behavior | M | 8 | 6 months | 1/23/2013 | 1 | asthma symptoms | nightmares (black angel coming), seperation anxiety, lost friends, unable to function in school (missed over 20 days), hungry, depression, it was SO SAD | My son became so anxiey ridden he was unable to go to school, he cried and was depressed day and night, tried to hurt himself and he couldn't tell us why? We were in counseling and were about ready to try an antidepressant. The night before I was going to give it I searched this site. Thank the Lord. I stopped the Singular. It was the worst 6 months of his life. After 3 weeks off this horrible drug, he was finally getting better mentally. And his moods/altered mind set lingered for atleast 6 more months. DO NOT GIVE THIS TO YOUR CHILD. And the doctor still wanted to try it again??, I refused. There are other drugs to try. | M | 8 | 6 months 5mg 1X day | 9/3/2012 | 1 | Asthma | Anxiety, depression and hopelessness, nightmares, hallucinations, headaches, inability to control anger, sore joints | M | 8 | 2 years 1 x 5mg D | 7/21/2012 | 1 | For asthma during cold/flu season | My son took this for 4 months, until we realized our son had become someone he and I both didn't know. He was moody, angry, had trouble concentrating (which had NEVER been a problem before), felt sad A LOT and didn't know why, had trouble sleeping (had never been a problem before, even as a newborn), nightmares every night...overall very unhappy and sad about being unhappy because he didn't know why he felt the way he did. Cannot believe I didn't figure it out sooner. He stopped taking it over 2 weeks ago....and I am happy to report he is sleeping like a baby, laughing again and being more positive about everything in general! I have my son back! | It's unfortunate that more doctors do not mention the possibility of these kinds of negative side effects. They don't really know how a medication might effect our children. Since no one, including myself, is going to allow drug testing on our children, Rx companies only know side effects for adults! | M | 8 | 4 months | 2/24/2006 | 1 | asthma | frustrated, unable to concentrate, teacher and family noticed a definite change in personality and performance, frustration lead to verbally expressing wanting to "kill myself" | This is about my very intelligent, sensitive 8 yr old nephew. This scared our whole family. THE BEST WAY TO BRING ATTENTION TO THESE ADVERSE EVENTS IS TO REPORT THEM TO THE DRUG MAKER MERCK AT 800-444-2080 AND THE FDA AT http://www.fda.gov/medwatch. THIS WILL HELP BRING ABOUT AWARENESS AND CHANGE. | M | 8 | 3 weeks | 12/7/2009 | 1 | Allergies | Anger, yelling, frusration, disrespectful communication with family, exhaustion, lack of patience, trantrums, problems listening | I originally asked my 7 year old's primary care physician for recommendations for sleep issues with my son. My son has always been a perfectionist and easy to anger, but he has a sensitive heart and always wants to please. I thought his initial problems were due to sleep problems we had seen with his inability to sleep through the night. He had chronic nasal conjestion. He was put on Singular. I was so happy with the results. He no longer had the 24/7 goopy nose. BUT 1 year later, I have an 8 year old that can not control his temper, we feel like we can no longer talk to him withour him going into a trantrum. We have gotten to the point that we feel like we are yelling at him all the time and he responds unreasonably to us or anyone. It was not until my neighbor took her son off singulair and said she notice he calmed done, that I began to tie the Singular to my somes worsening problem. I had just scheduled a meeting with his physician to talk about possible behavioral problems when I googled 'Singulair" side effects and found this page. I am so releived. I hope this will give us back our son and help him to gain control of his emotions. I know he is a smart, caring son in side this poor child. I am taking him off this drug immediately! | M | 8 | 1 years | 1/2/2010 | 1 | allergies/asthma | Headaches, severe stomach ache, bloody nose, agressive, emotional, mood swings | My 8 year old son has been on this for aprox. 5 weeks, and I now feel so guilty for accusing him of over acting and just wanting attention! This is horrible medication and I can't believe our Dr.'s don't give us these warnings. | M | 8 | 5 weeks | 9/13/2009 | 1 | asthma/allergies | Severe stomach aches, headaches, bloody nose, mood swings, loss of appitite | My 8 yr old son has been taking this horrible medication for approx. 4 wks and when he started complaining of the stomach ache and headaches I told him he was over reacting, I feel so guilty for not listening to him. Why don't our Dr.'s tell us about these side affects. | M | 8 | 4 weeks | 9/13/2009 | 1 | seasonal allergies | My second grade son began crying at school and started having seperation anxiety. He began crying at the bus stop in the morning and not wanting to leave us. This was very unlike him, so this site we found made us wonder. His doctor agreed to have him stop Singulair to see if that was the culprit. We are very happy to say within three days off of the Singulair, he is having no more issues with the separation anxiety and no longer crying at school. | His allergy syptoms went away, however the singulair was in conjuction with an antibiotic so unsure which cleared the heavy cough. | M | 8 | 3 weeks | 10/22/2009 | 1 | asthma/allergies | Horrible Mood Swings | Although Singular did help with my 8 year old's symptoms the side effects were horrible. She already was having some issues at school with attitude problems, this drug made them much worst. She was sent home almost every day with notes from school for taking back, being disrespectful towards others, stealing, lying, cheating. We had never had this many issues in a span of a week. We stopped giving her the medication and the behaviors have also stopped. | F | 8 | 14 days | 11/8/2009 | 1 | Seasonal allergies | Increased weight gain,Moody, aggressive,depressed,etc.... | My 8 year old son has been taking Singulair for quite some time now. I never made the connection to all the problems I have been having with him, until a friend of the family sent me this link. I read in horror the stories from other parents, the symptoms that their children were having mirrored that of my son. I was having such a terrible time controlling him, I didn't know what to do. He has been doing horrible in school, and is even worse at home. Without even consulting his Dr. I threw away his prescription of Singulair and Flonase.It has been about a week now, and I am slowly seeing some changes...for the better. His allergies are starting to come back full force, but I have no idea what to put him on now.I have been researching other allergy medicine web sites only to find that the side effects for many others are the same ( Zyrtec, Claritan, Benadryl) as well as many others. I hate to see him suffer but I have no idea what to put him on now. If anyone has any suggestions please | M | 8 | | 4/24/2008 | 1 | chronic sinus and ear infections | My 8 year old daughter was prescribed singulair 3 different times. The first two times she had severe headaches and we discontinued after two weeks. This last time we took it for 1 | and 1/2 months (after the doctor became angry that we had not kept her on it before.)We have now been to the ER for stomach pain and swollen abdomen 4office visits and 6days off school. She is having night terrors, clingy, cries from fear at bedtime will not let me out of her sight,also 1UTI.I have not slept in 3 weeks and the scary part is that it has been 3 weeks since she has had a dose. I found a post saying their son saw red stripes and yellow dots in one eye and it blew me away. That cannot be a coincidence.My child was happy and secure before she took singulair and now she is terrified and tormented daily by thoughts she cannot get out of her head. She says people are trying to kill her when she sleeps. She is now sleep deprived with dark circles under her eyes. I still have not seen information on how long it will take to get out of her system. | F | 8 | 45 days | 2/2/2009 | 1 | Allergies Ear Problems | Breating Tics, Eye Tics, Problems Focusing in School, hyperactivity, restlessness, agressiveness. | My son was prescribed Singulair a few years ago. I wish I had found this site sooner. Over the last two years he has been experiencing body tics, eye tics and now breathing tics to the point where he hyperventilates himself. He has trouble listening and staying on focus in school. Despite his issues he still does well in school but every progress report is about not paying attention in class or going to fast. He also is at times misbehaved and agressive. | M | 8 | 2 years | 5/8/2008 | 1 | allergies | My daughter is 8. She's normally a very loving, caring, obedient child. For the last 4 weeks she's started lying about things with very elaborate stories for things that wouldn't even get her in trouble. She started getting defiant, and diliberately disobeying right after I told her not do something. Today she got in trouble for taking her school scissors and carving lines into her desk. When asked why she did it, she says she doesn't know. She just remembers picking up the scissors and the next thing she remembers is the teacher yelling at her for carving lines into the desk. | I have been trying to think of what could have changed in her life in the last 4 weeks to make sure a completely different child. It finally hit me! She's been taking Singulair for about 5 weeks - that's the only thing that has changed! So Googled the side effects and found this site. I'm calling the dr tomorrow morning first thing. | F | 8 | 5 weeks | 3/9/2009 | 1 | allergies | Dr. prescribed sigulair for my son after I discountinued Allegra due to horrible mood changes. My son had been off all meds for 3 days and back to normal when we started singulair. He's been on singuair for 5 days and IT'S BACK. The mood swings are horrible..he cries all the time..is very aggressive and angry..this is NOT my son. | We will throw this prescription away just like allegra. I feel horrible for not doing the research after the allegra I should have known better. Dr.'s need to be educated on what COULD happen with children like mine!! | M | 8 | 5 days | 9/24/2007 | 1 | Asthma | psychotic thoughts, seeing and hearing things not there. Severely depressed, facial ticks, crying for long periods of time and not know why, worried all the time, severe nightmares, unable to distinguish between imagined thoughts and real events, they just started to blur together, paranoid (thinking people were talking about him and looking at him, even following him. | The only thing I can implore is to any parent who cares about their child - Never give this medicine to your son or daughter. It has taken away almost 2 years of our lives from us. I am having a hard time forgiving myself for not figuring it out sooner. I have taken my poor son off of this medicine about 4 wks ago and he is about 95% better. Shame on you Merck! I filed a complaint with Merck and the FDA. This should be taken off the market yesterday. | M | 8 | 1.75 years | 4/24/2007 | 1 | congestion | moderate to severe itching over torso, legs, back and arms. | F | 8 | 3 days | 3/25/2005 |