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| 3 | Asthma | Question: We are taking our 8 year old boy off Flovent after experiencing changes in his behaviour-- aggressiveness, anger, irritability... etc. How long will it take for Flovent to leave his system? | M | 8 | 2 months 2X day | 12/4/2010 | 3 | asthma | nightmares, terrible behavioral issues, urinary frequency, acute ocd | Before being on flovent my 4 yr old son was on pulmicort which worked great but he hated the nebulizer. After having H1N1 the doctor changed the rx to pro air and flovent via chamber. At first we thought this is great no more arguing over the nebulizer. This season he started taking the flovent and he has become a completely different child. Very defiant, and out of control! Nightmares all the time and urinary frequency and is ocd about things like ripping paper. It has made us all feel crazy until tonite. I didnt see any difference last year, not sure why now. I am keeping him on it til we find something else, he needs it, pro air isnt enough. It has kept him breathing, but our family will have to figure out how to help him get through the day. Any suggestions on other inhalers? | M | 4 | 3 weeks 44 mcg 2X day | 11/11/2010 | 3 | Mild Intermittant Asthma | Irritability, restlessness, poor concentration and anger issues | I feel like such an idiot, my son has been on this medication with fluctuating doses for five years. I once took him off the medication, due to insurance issues but he was put back on it once that was resolved and he had had a serious asthma attack (most times ending with a 2 day stint in the local childrens hospital with breathing treatments and many doses of prednisone.) He has since not had any asthma attacks in the past 3 years. I NEVER attributed his behavior with this medicine I just assumed he's a little boy, he's active and rambunctious, but after reading so many of these posts I feel like I am reading the story of my son's life on Flovent. He has had a difficult time in school, with repeated phone calls from teachers stating he is restless in his seat, gets distracted easily and is quickly angered. I was starting to question whether my child had ADHD. I am going to take him off this medication tonight! Hopefully this will result in a change in his behavior and allow him to be a happy energetic- but not crazy- child again who loves school! | M | 8 | 5 years 44 mcg 4X day | 10/9/2010 | 3 | Asthma | My son (5yrs old) started taking Flovent this year for asthma. He took Pulmicort breathing treatments last year but had terrible side effect going on the medication and coming off so the doctor decided to try a low dose of Flovent this year. We had definite reservations about using anything this year but he had pneumonia 3 times last year and ended up at the hospital. We have seen some aggression from him and moodiness. I read the fine print of the pamphlet which says that they tested Flovent on 56 pediatric patients-that is not a lot for a study. The fine print does say"agitation, aggression, anxiety, depression, and restlessness. Behavioral changes, including hyperactivity and irritability have been reported very rarely and primarily in children." The info is there so if your child is experiencing these symptoms you are not crazy. We are going to try just one puff a day and see how it goes. If the behavior changes are severe again we are going to stop the Flovent. Not sure | F | 5 | 2 days 220 mcg 2X day | 9/26/2010 | 1 | Asthma | I posted about Flovent my 4 year old daughter took on June 1st and the side effect she experienced. Here is an update. | I took my daughter off of Flovent (and Singulair) after finding this site and she still experienced coughing/throwing up episodes at nighttime and no wheezing at all (2x throughout June). Since she had this while on the medicine, and had it off the medicine, I concluded that it's something more to this then just asthma and I took her to a pediatric pulmonologist. She did an asthma breathing test (and did FANTASTIC!) and I asked if this could be acid reflux in addition to her asthma. The doc said he doubts she even has asthma, and said we'd try acid reflux medicine and see if that helps any. And guess what? Over the past month and a half she's had AMAZING breathing, NO coughing, NO throwing up at ALL while on the acid reflux medicine! Her quality of life has improved greatly since stopping Flovent and Singulair. Her aggressiveness has gone, she's more focused, no more bad calls from teachers or administrators...Im so happy I have my happy, healthy girl back! | F | 4 | 1.5 years 110 2X day | 8/10/2010 | 4 | Asthma | None | My seven year old uses this medicine daily to control asthma. For us, it has been WONDERFUL. We are very happy. I do understand the concerns others have about side effects - My son had most of the side effects mentioned here (sleeplessness, emotional, lethargic, mood swings) when he took Singulair to control his asthma. All of these side effects went away when we switched to Flovent instead of Singulair. His asthma is better controlled than it has ever been. | M | 7 | 8 months 44 mcg 2X day | 7/28/2010 | 3 | Asthma | major behavioral changes and mood swings when my daughter started this a year and a half ago. I told her doc about it and was told to keep her on it. NOW a year and a half later she is having constant headaches, hallucinations, bad dreams, insomnia...Im weaning her off this and will demand a safer alternative! All these posts Ive read on children mirror behaviors my daughter has had for the past year and a half. | My daughter was diagnosed at age 2 with asthma, and started flovent 6 months after her original diagnosis (after being on oral steroids 2x a month). It has helped with her wheezing and coughing, but the behavioral issues as she's gotten older have become too much. I miss my sweet girl and want her back! Her asthma is allergy related and she's had adenoid gland surgery to help with her nasal drainage. She's also on Singulair granules, I give it to her every other night (not nightly as prescribed). I didn't notice too much behavioral issues when she started the singulair a year ago, that too helped with her coughing/throwing up episodes at nighttime. After her adenoid gland surgery and allergy tests she started allergy drops (which have helped her allergies A LOT!) and this past January 2010 I put a tower air purifier in her bedroom and started her on Omega 3-6-9 supplements. She's only had one issue with coughing/throwing up at night. Ive seen the biggest improvement in her coughing and asthma with the Omega 3-6-9 and air purifier then anything else! | F | 4 | 1.5 years 110 2X day | 6/1/2010 | 3 | Asthma | The flovent helped within a few days with my daughter's breathing and coughing. But it has had some very negative side effects. It has made my 6 yr old daughter moody, depressed, sensitive and emotional. It changed her personality to such a degree we are considering therapy for her if she has to stay on this drug. I am hoping we will have better luck with Pulmacort or Cingulair. | F | 6 | 3 months 1X day | 4/17/2010 | 4 | Asthma | anger, aggression, crying, extreme emotional sensitivity | We went to a parent-teacher conference today (3-25-10.) Our 7-year-old son’s teachers usually describe him as “polite” and even “a joy to have in class.” Today they said that within the past month this has sometimes changed to “defiant” and “rude.” At home we’ve noticed he was more volatile (quick to extreme anger or tears.) The other day his sister seemed to get more ice cream than him – he immediately exploded into tears of rage and banged his elbow on the counter so violently that it is now bruised and swollen. I was shocked and horrified. Yesterday some neighborhood kids angered him so he came in to get a kitchen knife! Thankfully his mother saw this and intervened. At first I thought maybe it was the allergies, the trees here started pollinating a month or so ago. But just now I had a thought, maybe it was the Flovent that we put him on to treat the asthma triggered by the pollen. He’s been on Flovent before, but usually not for this long, and this was his first long stretch this school year. | M | 7 | 2 months 2X day | 3/25/2010 | 1 | Eosinophilic Esohagitis | My son was placed on this medicine for his EE that was recently diagnosed. Within just a couple of days we saw mood and behavior changes. Some tantrums were quite severe making it extremely difficult to control him. His teacher remarked after his 2nd school day with the drug that she was having to speak to him more often. We are taking him off the Flovent and trying a strict elimination diet to address his food allergy and going to seek another alternative medicine, if needed. | M | 6 | 5 days 44- 2puffs 2X day | 3/8/2010 | 4 | Asthma | Self: 24 year old adult. 110 twice a day. The only side effect that I noticed was the poor taste, so I just always take it before I brush my teeth in the morning and at night. Beside that I had wonderful relief! Son: 5 year old child. 44 twice a day, increased to 110 two/four times a day with a cold/flu or major allergy attack. My son has always been vary "active". "Active" is the nice parent way of say my kid is crazy sometimes! Now when taking his normal does of 44 a day I don't notice any side effects, and it works well. Now when he gets really bad I will up his dose to 110 four times a day, twice in the morning and at night. It works to get his symptoms under control. Now again my son is active so pin pointing a behavioral change is not as easy with him. But this last month or so he had a bad allergy thing going on and for 1 week on then 1 week off three times in a row we had him on the higher dose. This time we noticed something. Sometimes we wou | For me it works wonderful! I am a life long asthma sufferer and it wonderful to have relief! For my son it works great as well, I see a major improvement in his symptoms. But I am taking him the doctor tomorrow to see if there is anything we can do about the side effects. I don't want him to suffer, but poor guy, if it is the medication, I don't want him to live on time out! | M | 5 | 1.5 years 44 and 110 2X day | 3/3/2010 | 1 | Asthma | My five year old experienced a complete behavioral change. He exhibited trouble sleeping, getting along with other children, anger, aggression, agitation, inability to remember things, confusion, and hyperactivity. We had notes home from his teacher indicting an inability to integrate into the classroom. I also noticed that he was losing weight. The behavioral changes were a severe change from his pre-Flovent behavior. After taking him off Flovent for a day and half, I am beginning to see my loving son again. | Be very cautious about using this Flovent inhaler. It adversely affects the adrenals which are crucial to handling the body's stresses. | M | 5 | 45 days 110 2X day | 2/17/2010 | 1 | Yes | immediate headache, irritability, insomnia, light fever, dreams | We started my 5 year old daughter on flowvent last night. Five to ten minutes after her first dose (2 puffs) she reported having a headache in the front/forehead portion of her head. As far as I know, she's never had a headache. She then started to get a low-grade fever of about 99.8. She became very irritable and could not sleep during the night. Her behaviour was very strange. She couldn't stay still, kept moving her lips and face. My wife stayed up with her for the night and she (my daughter) eventually did sleep, but was talking in her sleep a lot. In the morning my daughter was fine, symptoms gone. No more Flowvent for us. | F | 5 | 1 days 44 MCG 4X day | 2/14/2010 | 4 | My son has ashmatic cough | Constant feeling that he needs to urinate | Previously our son was on Flonase (same ingredient as Flovent) and had the same side effect. Dr. looked at me as if I had 2 heads when I reported that to him. The feeling stopped as soon as we stopped Flonase and came back after about 5 days on FLovent 100mg, once a day. We decreased to 50 mg and the problem went away for about 10 days, but last night complained again. His cough is VERY WELL controlled at such a low dose and I am trying now 50mg every other day, so we'll see. I was releived to read other kids had the "need to urinate all the time" side effect, I may not be that crazy after all! If Flovent controls your child's asthma well, try a lower dose, and a lot of side effects could disappear, talk to your doctor about it. I can't believe so many young children (under 4) are prescribed Flovent. It's safety has not been established for that age group. | M | 6 | 15 days | 1/24/2010 | 1 | virus/allergy induced asthma | poor and interrupted sleep, irritability, loss of appetite, aggression, temper tantrums, hyperactivity, | My son was prescribed flovent by our pediatrician last year when he was 2 ( I didn't realize that it was not supposed to be given to children under 4!) I was concerned as it is a steroid and so I did not use it at all. This last fall he turned 3 and we had another emergency dr appt due to excessive wheezing. The ped asked if I was still on the Flovent twice/day and I said no- He encouraged me to give it twice/day. We started 3 months ago and immediately noticed signs although we did not think that it was Flovent we just thought that he had turned 3. He lost his naps which used to be 2-3 hours, he started waking up at 5 in the morning and having fits and biting, throwing toys and he turned into a child that we did not even recognize. This turned out house upside down! My husband suggested that it might be Flovent and so I looked online and found this site! We stopped 4 days ago and he had his first nap again yesterday and is starting to be the smiling angel that we knew before!- we will never give him this again- I am mad as I have been angry at our son at times for not going to bed- no wonder!! poor little guy!! | M | 3 | 3 months | 1/24/2010 | 2 | My Daughter is talking flovent | My Daughter is 5 and she's been on Flovent for 4 weeks and i've noticed her behavoir has changed a lot. very bossy and just not the Happy 5 year old that she was.. As of reading this site today i'm talking her off this also i've noticed her becomeing more worried about little things that she never worryed before about but most of all the glazed look in her eyes that i get.. i can't believe i've been missing it all this time and its right here.. | I would not give this to a child unless he or she really needs it .. i'm hoping I see a change in my daughter for the better soon, emoitonal wise .. | F | 5 | 4 weeks | 11/21/2009 | 1 | Asthma | My daughter is the most easy-going happy child. Days after starting Flovent we noticed an extreme change in her moods. She cried over everything, was tired all of the time and seemed depressed. | When we spoke to the allergist about this and like so many others were told it should not have these types of effects. Well, guess what..it does. Tomorrow is the 1st day my daughter will be off of Flovent and hopefully she can regain some sense of feeling normal again. | F | 6 | 8 days | 11/4/2009 | 1 | asthma | perscribed for daugther of 10 yrs. old. Extreme tiredness in morning, hyperactivity at night, trouble sleeping, confusion, uanble to read, nightmares, sadness, aggressiveness, sensitivity on her face and fingers, onset of OCD. | Whe she first started the drug we saw some repetitive language. Then this led to extreme tiredness in the morning and hyperactivity at night. After 3 months of being on drug we notice an onset of very odd OCD behaviors (which she had NEVER had before), repetitive language, confusion, unable to read or draw well(which are her loves), couple of episodes of severe dizziness, scared, many unusual fears, nightmares, 1 time hallusination, trouble sleeping, sadness, aggressive behavior in the evening, sensitivity on her face and fingers. ALL OF WHICH SHE HAD NEVER HAD BEFORE TAKING FLOVENT. Dr. does not think it is drug. We have taken her off! Seven days off and many of the side effects are gone or diminished. BEWARE OF DRUG | F | 10 | 3 months | 10/22/2009 | 1 | asthma with cold | acute ocd; tics; hallucinations/psychosis; mania | Our daughter was on this for about four months. We noticed she seemed depressed, but didn't connect it to the drug. Then after three months off the medication (during which she was an angel and as happy as can be), we resumed her daily dose of Flovent and she instantly nose-dived. Acute onset of ocd, tics, hallucinations, mania--none of which she had previously experienced. We were terrified, until we found this site. She's now been off the medication for thirteen days. The hallucinations quickly subsided. The ocd, tics, and mania are still there, but diminished. We are hoping our daughter makes a full recovery very soon (we have read that mania can often last up to three weeks after medication is stopped), and we're extremely disappointed that our peditrician assured us repeatedly that there was no systemic absorbtion of Flovent. | F | 4.5 | 4 months | 9/24/2009 | 1 | Allergy-induced asthma | Irritability, mood swings, tantrums, rage, oppositional, clingy, insomnia, excessive crying (sometimes for over and hour) | My 8 year old son became another person on this med. I advised his doctor that he had similar problems with Singulair as well which he took when he was 4. I would not recommend ever giving this medication to any child unless it is life saving! | M | 8 | 3.5 weeks | 9/16/2009 |