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 | Angioedema | No side effects. This is the ONLY thing that controls my angioedemas. | F | 58 | 3 months 30 mg 1X day | 10/3/2020 | 4 | asthma/allergies | None that I am aware of | This did help with preventing paroxysms of coughing due to stress-induced asthma and probably helped increase O2 levels as I was less tired. I took my dose in the morning as it did seem to act more like a stimulant for me and made sleeping difficult. Cost is high so I am not currently taking it, but may have to return to it come spring and summer allergy seasons | M | 58 | 9 months unsure 1X day | 3/6/2011 | 3 | allergy and asthma | Cramping in calves and feet. My toes would curl up in a terrible cramp and it would take me awhile to get it to release. Also I would get cramps in my legs. | It helped but the side effect for me is too painful. | F | 58 | 25 days | 5/30/2009 | 3 | Asthmatic/cough/severe/ruptured mus | After 1 month, began experiencing FREQUENT severe cramps in ribs-back-thighs-groins-chest-calves.After 2 months, total sexual anesthesia.This month I have started talking about dying A LOT. | For 6 months I coughed so hard I ruptured muscles in my chest, threw my back out 3 times and became incontinent of bladder. Singulair, Advair and Combivent all prescribed at the same time. Breathing is wonderful but I have read where some of the side effects mimic the illnesses. Combivent makes me cough terribly and produce mucus. I can't move at all without triggering a cramp and am terrified of one hitting my heart- after all, it is a muscle. 3 coworkers started to ask me if I had any plans to suicide (at 3 different times and occasions) Planned to switch the Combivent for Albuterol but had a terrible cramp while answering this survey- no more Singulaire for me. | F | 58 | 90 days | 8/13/2008 | 2 | Asthma | Severe depression, very vivid dreams, skin problems with excema and severe itiching of face, scalp and neck, hair falling out. Scalp was numb and tingling. | Helped with asthma symptoms, but due to side effects could not take. | F | 58 | 6 months | 2/6/2009 | 1 | allergic asthma | insomnia, hand tremors, tinnitus (pulsating in left ear), pain in front of right thigh, thoughts about death | Singulair did control my asthma symptoms. I took it for 6 1/2 years. I stopped it when I read that Singulair had a black box, that it may cause suicidal thoughts in children. I asked myself what it is doing to me. I had no idea. It has been a year since I stopped Singulair. The pain in the front of my thigh went away in 3 days; the tinnitus, which I had noticed for about 6 months, lessened in 6 months and then was gone; the insomnia improved immediately--I slept so well. The hand tremors I'd had since Sept, 2005, are much less, and I only notice somettimes when I am tired. I noticed those when I would lift a fork to eat. I didn't realize I had the thoughts about death and that it wouldn't be so bad, until I stopped the Singulair and the thoughts went away. I would never take this drug again. I would never recommend it to anyone. Why does it have this effect on the brain? I tried a Flovent inhaler, but I was allergic to the propellant, according to my allergist. He placed me on Asmanex twisthaler, which is a powder, with no propellant. It has been a year and it has worked. No espisodes requiring prednisone. What a relief. And, no side effects, of which I am aware. | F | 58 | 6 years | 4/28/2009 | 1 | ADULT ASTHMA | Beware- I am basically a level headed person- I gradually drifted into a deep depression and crying spells after 2 weeks. Takes several days to realize it is this drug that is this causing this. Takes another several days to detox it from your system. | This is the second time I have taken Singulair and experienced the same thing. It helps so much with my lungs that I had forgotten that I had the same side effects 2 yrs. ago. The experience is so scary I feel this drug should be taken off the market. If not for this web site I would probably think I was losing my mind. | F | 58 | 19 days | 11/19/2009 | 1 | Asthma; persistent, intense cough | Significant increase in shortness of breath and fatigue. Prior to Singulair, I was able to walk on treadmill and do some light activity, but after only 2 days of taking 10 mg/day, I felt ill and unable to engage in normal conversation, so I stopped medication. It took a few months just to get back to baseline. | Allergist's recommendation was to continue taking Singulair and to begin using a combination inhaler. I decided against that advice as I am afraid of inhalers; also I believed that following his advice would take me down the wrong path (more meds, and thereby more side effects & interactions). I've been waiting for appt w/new allergist who uses sublingual allergy meds--supposedly less problematic. My chronic cough has caused organs to prolapse, so I hope the sublingual med helps before I need operations to correct prolapses. | F | 58 | 2 days | 12/4/2009 | 1 | allergic sinusitus | Insomnia was the first side effect and that was on day 1. Irritibility, joint pain, an inability to think clearly and just a sense of feeling "weird" soon followed. I can't seem to determine from what I have read how long it takes for the medication to be effective but after 5 days, there's been no improvement. The side effects aren't worth the wait to see if it's going to work. | F | 58 | 5 days 10MG 1X day | 2/22/2011 | 1 | asthma/allergies | HIGH Blood pressure, leg cramps, dry itchy eyes, head aches, several more, but severe reaction with blood pressure! | F | 58 | 90 days 10 mg 1X day | 8/3/2011 | 1 | terrible allergies, seasonal asthma | rapid heart beat, anxiety, depression, heavy sleeping, crazy dreams, mood swings, weight gain, bloating and water retention | Its the best allergy medicine I have ever taken, but I have to stop because the side effects are too great. Honestly, I am afraid at times that i will have a heart attack. Wish there was something else I could take that would work without the side effects. | F | 58 | 60 days 10 1X day | 4/15/2015 | 1 | COPD | Worsening breathing and reduced lung capacity by 30% | M | 58 | 14 days 10 1X day | 6/7/2016 | 5 | allergies | No side effects | Has greatly helped me control my allergies. | F | 57 | 6 years | 5/20/2008 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |