PULMICORT Reviews (BUDESONIDE)Average Rating: 2.5 (174 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare PULMICORT with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR PULMICORT | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 3 | bronchitis | Slight rash | My daughter has been on pulmicort breathing treatments with albuterol twice daily for abour 5 days. It does seem to help without noticable side affects. But after reading these post I am thankful that she is only suppose to take the med a few more days. | F | 2 | | 1/10/2010 | 3 | Cough, wheezing, congestion | None. | My 12-month-old son was started on Pulmicort due to persistent cough, wheezing, and congestion. He takes this twice per day along with albuterol. The albuterol does help his wheezing. I have not noticed a big improvement with the Pulmicort and will be discontinuing it soon, but we saw no side effects from this medicine. | M | 1 | 4 weeks | 12/2/2009 | 1 | asthma | My son is 5 and his anxiety level is off the charts since this medicine. He is clingy and nervous and extremely moody and explosive. Last night he started freaking out that his eyes were gone. He insisted they were gone and wasn't convinced they were there until I showed him in the mirror. We took him to emergency and they told us Pulmicort can cause psychosis. He still asks me if they are there every once in a while today. His ped told us to take him off - that for us, this medicine is hurting more than helping. Now I have to just keep him from getting a cold or we're screwed. I can't believe there isn't a good alternative out there. | M | 5 | 3 years | 10/1/2009 | 1 | nothing | Demonic nightmares with auditory hallucinations. No other drug I have ever taken, including pain-killers and steroids, messed with my head like this, and I have had almost all OTC and prescribed drugs for sinus, allergy, asthma, surgery, dental work, and lung infections, including inhaled antibiotics. | Immediately relieved the extreme discomfort of life-long bronchiectasis. | M | 52 | 20 days | 9/30/2009 | 2 | prevent asthma | mood swings, when taken at night the next day she is not the same, very irritable. I even got a call from her teacher who is a PPCD teacher that she was not her norm. | My daugher who is DS child has been on this meds and xopenex with neb for about 6 months and I have decided that this is not working. I am glad that I have a pulse sox and a stethoscope to help me keep tract of her breathing. | F | 49 | 6 months | 9/29/2009 | 1 | Asthma | Violent aggressive behavior to self and others - biting, punching, slapping, kicking, spitting, yelling. Instigating, tormenting other children. Disobedient and rebellious to any authority figure. Weight gain although diet didn't change. Moody, compulsive finger & toenail biting. Nite bed wetting caused delayed potty training. | I'm crying as I read the posts on this site. I just had a behavioral conference for my 4 yr old boy at his preschool last week due to this behavior. My son was started on pulmicort at 2 yrs old after 2 consecutive boughts of pneumonia within a 4 week period and a diagnosis of asthma. It seemed to work so much better than albuterol. The behavior he is currently displaying has carried over from what we chalked up to the "terrible twos". Tha asthma has flared up in the past 2 yrs even with the pulmicort during the cold season. I asked the doctor at his 4 yr check up if the behavior could be from the medicine and didn't get a direct answer. I asked how his lungs sounded and he thought they sounded great. We were advised to wait through the blooming period for seasonal allergies and then stop the meds approx the end of May 2009. He had a flare up at the end of May and I have continued the meds through till last nite. The parent/teacher conference resulted in a daily journal to be passed back and forth from me to teachers. I am AMAZED at how frequent he is displaying these behaviors. I turned to the internet for possible answers and found this site. Every other post is describing my sons behavior. He can be incredibly sweet and loving and is so smart and can turn in an instant. I was actually thinking my 4 yr old could be bipolar! He is off this medicine starting now. I pray the asthma is gone and he can live without this stuff. PLEASE BEWARE OF THIS MEDI | M | 4 | 2 years | 6/16/2009 | 1 | asthma | Sleep walking, restlessness,impulsive,moody | Only just assosiated sleep problems with this medication. Seems so obvious now. Why don't doctors warn you about the side effects. If anyone has alternatives to Pulmicort please email me | M | 9 | 3 years | 6/9/2009 | 1 | asthma | pain in right side of chest/severe dizzy spells, thinning hair, tremors and constant headaches | I suffered tremendously with these symptoms when taking Advair several years ago and my doctor said Pulmicort wouldn't do the same. He was very wrong. It took me too many months to realize it was happening all over again. The side effects don't dissappear as soon as you stop taking the medication. It takes time-maybe months. Today I stopped taking Pulmicort. Hopefully the side effects will go away soon! | F | 39 | 4 months | 6/4/2009 | 3 | respiratory illness | Severe mood swings, Sleep issues, constantly hungry. | 18 month old daughter has been on pulmicort twice a day for a week due to respiratory illness and has displayed severe mood swings, sleep issues such as waking at 4am instead of 7 and she is constantly hungry. But the meds are working and make her breathe much more easily. | F | 1 | 7 days | 5/19/2009 | 3 | asmatic attack | Rapid gain weight and swollen face. | Medicine seems had disabled me in many way after starting using it. Nevertheless, they could not discover why I had symptoms like depression, weakness, joints, back, knee and weight gain without having changed my way of life. All people wondered how I could have gained weight.... I hardly could make a talk because orienting and throat disturbance with the voice disappearance. | M | 67 | 10 years | 5/10/2009 | 1 | Son has asthma | I am writing this for my son. He is 13 and has been taking Pulmicort Turbuhaler for 11 years. He was 2 years old when he was diagnosed. I am absolutely appalled and grateful that I have found this site. My son has been overweight for most of his life and doesn't eat much at all. I have to watch everything that goes in his mouth. He is very athletic and plays football and baseball and does the normal things that boys do. All of the doctors have told me that there is nothing to be concerned about by having him on the Pulmicort. They say that there are not enough studies to confirm the "weight gain" side effect. I thought that I was going crazy, I would count his calories, prepare his lunches for school and always make sure his meals at home were healthy and he is still gaining weight. He is now in the 7th grade and at 206 pounds. He is tall for his age but not enough to carry a 200 pound body. I am infuriated. Thanks for sharing your comments. | I have also been reading about the bone loss and possible liver damage that Pulmicort can cause. Why the heck are they prescribing this to us and our children? | M | 13 | 11 years | 5/4/2009 | 4 | Asthma | Acne, insomnia, waking up in the middle of the night, runny nose once inhaler (by nebulizer) started, eye infection. | My children are in day care and the day care provider must think I am abusing my son and neglecting him medically. He is breaking out with small pin-point sized sores all over his handlsome little face. He picks obsessively causing them to bleed. Also picking his nose (which could just be age related but it has increased since starting the med). It does help his asthma and I give it to him once a day at night because he coughs at night if I don't give it. The Flovent wasn't as helpful as he would wake up at night coughing and even a repeat dose of it wouldn't relieve his cough. This med does help greatly but with a lot of side effects. I am not sure if his hyperactivity is just age-related and being filled with energy and happiness or if it is from this medication. He can sit still and isn't constantly hyper but the way he is breaking out on his face is bothersome to me. I am not sure if those areas are itching causing him to pick. I didn't realize this med causes the acne until I read the leaflet in the box today. Now I am relieved it's not something else and nothing that the day care provider or CPS can blame ME for doing or not doing to care for my child appropriately (bed bugs, etc). I have had "dealings" with CPS in the past (domestic violence victim) and everything is a worry to me when it comes to my children. His asthma is improved with only the one dose but the side effects are concerning. But I have to weigh the pros and cons. | M | 3 | 5 days | 4/11/2009 | 5 | Asthma symptoms | We have not seen any side effects, though my wife think he sometimes has incontinence more frequently when on it. He is actually very tall for his age and is typically healthy and well behaved. Usually we'll see behavior problems when he's starting to have a flare up (check peak flows). This has worked very well for him. | My son has used Pulmicort intermittently as needed along with Xopenex. It has been a tremendous help for his asthma. Though he has been on it intermittently for five years (since he was 6 months old) he has probably spent far more time not needing anything. Usually he's on it for 2-5 months out of the year, depending on circumstances, usually brought on by colds or a sudden change in humidity (or a combination). | M | 6 | 5 years | 4/4/2009 | 1 | cold-induced asthma | aggressive (yelling, hitting, biting), difficulty handling situations (fell apart a lot), sleep issues, potty accidents after being PT for over a year, unhappy, complained of headaches after his treatments, stained teeth (too much of a coincidence for it to be from anything other than pulmicort), etc... | My son was put on pulmicort as a preventative every day medicine via a nebulizer during the cold season. He was not on this medicine long enough to know if it made a difference though I did notice a decrease in his nighttime coughing. He became a different child and we never realized how bad it had gotten until we had him off of pulmicort for a few days. He was the little boy he used to be, a normal 3 year old, happy and healthy. The doctor was very hesitant to take him off the treatment, saying that the chances of the side effects we were seeing being from the medicine were so slim and insisted that it was his (my son) way of coping with having 2 younger siblings. He agreed to a 2 week break from the meds and we are so happy with the outcome. So far, no breathing issues and my son is back to his normal self. Shame on me for blaming my son's bad behavior on him and not the medicine. | M | 3.5 | 3 months | 3/23/2009 | 5 | asthma | NONE! | MY 3 YEAR WAS PLACED ON PULMICORT ONCE A DAY... IT'S A MIRACLE. SHE FEELS SO MUCH BETTER, HER COUGH IS BETTER. SHE EVEN BEHAVES BETTER! WE WERE STARTING TO DESCRIBE HER AS A DIFFICULT CHILD... HOW BAD TO I FEEL NOW! IT WAS JUST THAT SHE WAS FEELING SO BAD. WE COULD TELL A DIFFERENCE IN HER BEHAVIOR IN ONE TREATMENT. EVEN HER PRE-SCHOOL TEACHER COMMENTED ON HOW MUCH MORE EVEN TEMPERED SHE HAD BEEN. SOME OF THE COMMENTS HERE SCARED ME AT FIRST BUT IT HAS BEEN GREAT FOR US!!!! | F | 29 | 7 days | 3/10/2009 | 3 | Asthma | Teeth discoloration, coughing. | The doctor prescribed Pulmicort for my 2-year old because she is asthmatic and was hospitalized with pneumonia. It has helped somewhat but I am concerned about her oral health because I cannot get her to rinse (or drink) afterwards and her teeth are getting black. Literarily! She also coughs a lot and I have decided to take her off of it to allow her body heal itself. I am paranoid about her little body becoming dependent on drugs for every cure. | F | 2 | 2 months | 3/9/2009 | 1 | Asthma | High blood pressure. Neck veins throbbing. Migraine headaches. Fatique, irritability, depression, anxiety, weight gain. | It helped control my asthma, in conjunction with albuterol, but at too high a price...I'm now looking for alternative ways to control my asthma. | F | 32 | 4 months | 2/27/2009 | 2 | wheezing and fatigue | tight muscles, cramping, difficult breathing | F | 43 | 1 days | 2/13/2009 | 2 | asthma | migraine headaches, cystic acne, extreme weight gain, hoarseness, thrush, cough, anxiety, depression, panic attacks, restless legs and leg cramps, frequent urination, feeling cold all the time, tight chest | The pharmaceutical companies need to work harder to come up with alternatives for asthmatics. Corticosteroids are dangerous and have terrible side effects. It is a living nightmare to be forced to choose between being able to breathe and being sane and healthy otherwise. | F | 35 | 1.5 years | 2/12/2009 | 1 | asthma | yeast infections, thrush, behavior problems, gerd, sleep problems,asthma returned every 4-6 weeks,admitted to hospital about 6x times for asthma in less then 1year [6x each child] | my twins were put on pulmicort at the age of 6 weeks 1x a day then up to 2x a day because they were still getting sick about every 4-6 weeks this went on till about 16 months when i stopped all meds pulmicort zantac regalan exc..all i used was albuterol when needed and ipratropium bromide when needed they still get sick about every 2-3 months with or with out all the other meds but they have not been admitted to the hospital since i stoped all meds there is no harm in stopping the meds you can always restart them and they sleep throught the night [at 18m] THANK GOODNESS | M | 2 | 15 months | 2/11/2009 |