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| 3 | exercise induced asthma | son complaining this morning about soreness behind knees and between fingers. i'm concerned about stunted growth and long-term affects of system. i know this is not a good thing to put in body but don't know what else to do at this point. help. | My son is on 2 puffs in morning, daily (half of what Chief of Allergy insisted upon). I would not use Flonase prescribed either -- we use xClear instead (a saline, xylitol nose wash). Also, a strict regimen of Child Life liquid vitamins & Vitamin C which I know has really boosted his immune system and made up the difference. I want him off this med -- does anybody have any other ideas?? We've also done Osteopathy which I believed helped but it is very expensive and had to eventually stop for now. | M | 4 | 1 years | 9/13/2009 | 1 | Asthma | I only yesterday thought about Flovent and my son's behavior issues. He started taking 1 puff a day in May. In June/July I started noticing his negative and disruptive behavior. I was thinking that he was not adjusting well to different summer camps and change this summer. He started Kindergarten this week and his reports that come home are of a very aggressive confrontational little boy. He took his last puff this morning and I hope that we see drastic changes shortly. | M | 6 | 90 days | 8/27/2009 | 1 | asthma | My son was prescribed this 2x a day for the past few months. he started having mood swings, outbursts, tantrums and getting agressive with not only his younger sister, but with both parents....he is 7 and this started with his using this medication!!!! avoid it! this is a horrible product that the physicians don't seem to think can cause this behavior they are wrong! | M | 7 | 6 months | 8/24/2009 | 3 | asthma only when he has a cold | Nothing I have noticed in 3 years, except maybe he says his throat feels funny afterwards. We of course rinse his mouth well after. | I am shocked at reading some people gving this inhaler to TWO YEAR OLDS. It is not even reccommended for children under 4. | M | 7 | 3 years | 8/23/2009 | 5 | asthma | My son has taken flovent 2 puffs daily since a severe asthma attack in 2007 that left him on a vent for 3 days. Flovent daily has helped although he has complained of not sleeping well over the past two years & now severe leg cramps & joint pain.My dr feels the two are unrelated... | M | 9 | 2 years | 8/3/2009 | 1 | My 10 year old has asthma | At first we were pleased with the sudden energy my son started having after starting using flovent twice a day. Then he had a twisted ankle and had to have an x-ray on his foot, the ankle injury was not considered serious, however there was resorption in the bones of his toes. After doing some research on Flovent, I have found the steroid in flovent can cause bone loss and bone resorption. This has been very difficult for my family, as we try to get my first born healthy again. Has any one else experienced this? | M | 10 | 1 years | 7/27/2009 | 3 | My seven year old girl has asthma | My normally happy 7 year old girl started Flovent during Spring allergy season along with Singulair. I'm not sure if it was just the Flovent, or a combination of both, that turned her into a little monster! She was climbing furniture, hitting her younger sister, breaking crayons on purpose, broke two of my good dishes (not sure if on purpose or not, I came running into the room after the incident happened) and to top it off, threw our kitten down the stairs! I immediately scolded her and she started crying and said she couldn't help it. I contacted her allergist to talk, but had his nurse call back and insisted that (HIS words, not hers) "this medicine (Flovent) typically doesn't cause this type of behavior. But, you can take her off for 4 days and see what happens." Well, low and behold after no Singulair or Flovent for a week straight now, there is no more bad behavior. I definitely think this has a direct effect on mood, behavior and self-control. We are not out o | F | 7 | 8 days | 7/3/2009 | 4 | asthma | My six year old has been taking Flovent for about 2 1/2 years. The only side effect is that both her appetite and growth are somewhat suppressed during the eight months she is on the medicine. Both seem to rebound during the summer months when she is off of the medicine. | The medicine has worked very well at controlling wheezing and the need for further treatment. The two times I tried to take her off of Flovent, she developed respiratory ailments that required a nebulizer. | F | 6 | 2 years | 6/23/2009 | 2 | Asthma / Frequent Croup | UNBELIEVABLE! My 6 year old has been taking this for over a year and his obnoxious, whiney, immature behavior has gotten worse as he has gotten older. At first we thought it was just boy stuff but it has become intolerable. Other an vitamins, he is only on Flovent so I decided to look at the ratings for this. Nearly every pediatric post states the same thing that we are experiencing with him. His last puff was yesterday and that's how it's going to remain. I pray this is reason for his unruly behavior. I'm at my wits end. | M | 6 | 1.5 years | 6/21/2009 | 3 | asthma | My 6 year old has been taking this medication for a few years now. Her anger has been a problem for a while, I thought it was related to her many allergies. Recently the problems are getting worse. Her explosive anger, rage and crying spells have increased. Her appetite is tremendous and has put on a lot of weight. She can't tell me what is bothering her, she says she doesn't know. Anything can set her off. If she were older, I'd swear she'd try to commit suicide or attack someone. She almost seems crazy when she's in the middle of it. I'm caught between following her doctor's advice and my own intuition. She hasn't had an asthma attack in three years. | I don't trust the drug companies to be honest about the side effects or concerns. Profit is their goal. | F | 6 | 2 years | 6/3/2009 | 2 | Suspected Asthma | Severe aggression, nightmares, hyper-active | We were never aware of any side affects that related to behavioral issues. My two year old son was put on Flovent when he was hospitalized for bronchitus. This was his second hospitalization. The doc prescribed Flovent 2 puffs 2x daily and he was to use it for at least a year and a half. We believed our 2 year old was just a bad child. He constantly bit his older brother for no reason, hit our dog, kicked us, screamed constantly, could not sit still for more than 2 minutes. His brother at some points would have 3 bite marks that would bruise on his back from my younger son. He was biting kids at school every day. We were told that he just was a bad kid. It tore me apart to think I could not control my child and that we were raising a terror. In passing I mentioned his behavior to a friend and she suggested I look into the medication. I first found this website and the we immediately took him off. The doc told us the medicine was not a factor in his behavior. In one week we have noticed a TREMENDOUS turnaround. His aggression has subsided, he is calm, no night terrors, he is much happier. I had a BIL who saw my child the week before we took him off the medication and then saw him again a week after we stopped and he could not believe it was the same child. I am so relieved to have my baby back. I feel awful to think what he went through. | M | 2 | 6 months | 5/27/2009 | 2 | sudden, severe asthma attack | While the drug controls his new asthma well (what do I know, we've never dealt with this before) every quirk and negative personality characteristic is hyped by 100. Tearing tiny pieces of paper, and insisting on balling them and playing with them under a fingernail. Inability to stop picking a scab, till he bleeds. Moodiness. Verbal aggression. Quick defensiveness. Huge appetite. Where he was a loving child, now he acts like an attention starved cat. Hugely needy for physical affection. Irritable and irritating the hell out of his siblings. Generally making me nuts. And I ADORE this child. He was my baby for a long time until his baby brother came 2 years ago. And oh, reverted to obsessive thumb sucking. | I've talked to 2 pharmacists, and 2 nurses, and 2 doctors, including the pediatric pulmonologist's office. I get the same "well, this med typically doesn't cause these type of symptoms". Oh really? My son is just now a severe OCD nut? What are my options? We tried taking down the frequency and dose, just to have to use the Albuterol within 2 days. Maybe children are particularly sensitive, but this is crazy. An entire family shouldn't have to suffer with odd/unpleasant behaviors to control asthma, but most of all, I feel so badly for our son. At least, with this forum, I don't feel so crazy anymore, like it's all in my head...thanks to you all. | M | 8.5 | 3 weeks | 5/21/2009 | 1 | Asthma Control | Rage, anger, severe anxiety, night-terrors, opposition, defiance, hallucinations, day-dreaming, ADHD. | I posted on this site in April, '08 about my (then) 8 y.o. son's symptoms while on Flovent and wanted to update the past year. Since taking him off Flovent our son has gone from a raging maniac to a pretty normal 9 y.o. boy. He is in 3rd grade, gets straight A's and is reading at a 6th grade level. His school work is exceptional and his social skills have improved 100%. No more night terrors, no more hallucinations, no more rage. We are lucky that he seems to have grown out of his Asthma and we moved to another city with much less pollution which seemed to trigger the asthma. I am confident in saying the Flovent caused all the severe symptoms I've listed. Within 2 weeks of taking him off the medication his symptoms subsided. We continue to work on his learned (poor) behaviors and work on our own (poor) reactions to him. I can truly say life has improved 100% in regards to our son. Chris | M | 9 | 7 years | 5/13/2009 | 1 | Suspected Asthma | My 4 yr old daughter was diagnosed with Asthma on Monday 4-20-09. She has never, ever been sick beyond the normal cold, and 1 ear infection in her whole 4 short yrs. On 4-20 the dr prescribed albuteral every 4hrs for 2 days; allegra 1/2 tsp 2xpday; 4mg singular 1xpday; veripred 1 & 1/2 tsp 1xperday for 5 days and flovent 110mcg 1 puff 2xperday. I began all the meds for her immediately after returning from the drug store, except for the Flovent, only b/c I wasn't sure how to get her to breath in thru her mouth while giving it to her. I called her dr and asked for further instruction on Wed 4-22-09. Today, 4-23-09, my little girl became, Baby Jeckle and Whiney Hyde. She has only had 4 treatments (2 per day Wed and Thurs) of the flovent. She absolutely would not participate in gymnastics (Wed) or ballet (Thurs), her two very favorite activities. 2nite in ballet, she had turned her back on the rest of the class and sit with her little head leaned against the glass door, in her own | I am definitely taking her off the meds -- no question! | F | 4 | 2 days | 4/23/2009 | 1 | Asthma | Irritability, weakness, high fever, chills, flu like symptoms, loss of appetite, stuffy nose, headache, cough, nausea, tired | I took my 9 year old son to an Allergy Asthma specialist for testing. He has a lot of enviromental allergies which I was told my choices were very expensive shots for a long period of time or Zyrtek. For his Asthma he was prescribed Flovent 110 MCG 2 sprays twice a day and ProAir for quick relief. After a couple of days on the Flovent I noticed all of the side effects listed. He also had loss of appetite. He had been on Pulmicort Respules 0.25/2ML along with Albuterol 5MG and was fine it just took more time to administer. I am going to go back to that because he only has asthma symptoms if he has a cold or has been running around a lot. I do not recommend Flovent for anyone nor would I ever give it to my son again. I am planning on letting the FDA know of all of the side effects he experienced from this drug. | M | 9 | 1 weeks | 4/6/2009 | 1 | dr. thought son may have asthma | frustrated, unhappy, easily angered, teachers noticed in school he was less sociable than before, went from a great student to being frustrated and uncooperative, he was withdrawn in school and just was not himself, he just didn't seem to be able to control his moods and actions. teachers didn't know what was wrong at first until I told them he was on a new med. He also hit me for the first time ever! He had some nights of interrupted sleep, and was just overall grumpy a lot! Also had a migraine in teh first few days of taking med and some cold symptoms but it wasn't really a cold. | Dr. told me, after I told him about my son having side effects, that the list of side effects was just mumbo jumbo and they have to write down everything from trials and that people may have been exposed to cold germs before the trial but then the symtoms show up so they have to include it. He also said that he only sees sdie effects once every two years. After trying another week, he was just so different from his happy usual self that I called the Dr. about stopping and he agreed but wanted to put him on Qvar instead ( max dose 2 puffs 2 x a day just like the floven) He has been on nothing for over a week and he is starting to get back to his normal happy self and they are seeing a big improvement in school. Since Qvar has a lot of side effects too, We decided against it. He has very mild asthma, if any at all but the Dr. does not want to admit he may have made a mistake. we went in for allergy teasting and all of a sudden the Dr. says asthma beacuse he did have Bronchitis once and does get a bad cough with colds. But with the nebulizer and albuterol, it helps the cough. I can't see hime on any stuff 365 days a year if he only needs it with colds. Also Dr. put he coughs with exercise but I said I had made a mistake and he really didn't but the Dr. would not take it off the report! He said it was part of his history and couldn't be changed. If he runs around for 1/2 hour witout coughing, how can he have exercise induced asthma! | M | 4 | 2 weeks | 3/25/2009 | 3 | Asthma | Aggression, irritability, short attention and concentration, profuse sweating, especially when asleep. | My 6 yr.old son has taken 3 treatments of Flovent (inhaler-110 mcg. twice a day).We did not notice much change until this last treatment. He has been uncontrollably getting upset, arguing (especially with brother),crying for any reason, and can't control himself from moving around(hyperactivity) or excessive talking. Every parent knows his children, and believe me this is not normal. We also noticed much sweat on his head, neck and chest right after he went to sleep. Although it has helped him with his asthma, we're stopping treatment and looking for an alternative. | M | 6 | 3 months | 3/16/2009 | 2 | Asthma | Numbness/ tingling of feet, agitation, behavior problems | My 6-year old daughter has been on Flovent for four months. It helped with her asthma, but has made her far more difficult, moody and defiant. Last night after taking her dose, she immediately began feel very agitated, and said her feet felt strange, numb and tingly. She couldn't keep her legs still and was very distressed. This is listed as a rare but very serious side effect in the patient information. We took her to the ER and they told us to stop the medicine and follow up with her pediatrician without explaining what was going on. | F | 6 | 4 months | 3/15/2009 | 2 | Asthma | Irritability, violent, aggressive, moody, sleeplessness,I have a 2 year old son who has allergy and asthma problems. He has struggled since he was 11 months old. He has been hospitilized 4 different times since he turned 11 months. We have had numerous episodes that we managed to treat at home as well. I should add that I myself have dealt with asthma since I was a young child as well as my husband. My son has a docotr here that began treating him who started him with pulmicort and albuterol treatments. Then we were reffered to a pulmonoligist. At that time he was switched to flovent. I might also add that many many times he has been treated with pred either by itself with albuterol or in addition to flovent or pulmicort. And he has also taken pulmicort or flovent with out an oral steroid. With all that said we discontinued the pulmicort and the flovent because with both there were serious behavior issues. I explained it to our doctors that it was that type of fit an autistic c | And here we are again facing the dilema of what is best for your child. With us already using flovent and having the same reults we do not know what the right decision is for him. I would like to add I was reading the posts from earlier dates before posting mine and one person said that flovent worked well for them and until someone has seen the behavior changes that oral steroids such as pred can cause you have not seen anything. Well to that I reply I myself had a serious behavior reaction to the pred when I was 18 years old crying rage violent to which I was taken off of the meds. My two year old son was even worse with his behavior when he was on the flovent and pulmicort. It is a horrible feeling when you yourself have experienced the extreme emotional reaction and have to watch your sweet baby go through this and not be able to explain to him what is happening. Also to those of you who like me have been scorned by doctors because it just is not possible for it to be these m | M | 2 | 3 months | 2/19/2009 | 1 | allergic asthma | Irritability, difiance, oppositional, uncontrollable, sassy mouth, "out-there" | My usually mild mannered 4yo son has turned into a defiant monster. He is not listening to adults, is hyper and is about to kicked off the pre-k bus if he mouths off to the bus driver 1 more time. The doctore prescribed flovent to him 2 puffs 2x perday and his behavior changes started within days. When we knocked his dose down or accidently forgot to give it to him, he started to go back to the sweet caring little boy that we know he is. We shouldn't have to choose between "asthma control" and "good behavior". I can't believe how sever this side effect is. I am contacting the doctor to switch his meds, but i'm not sure "WHAT" to put him on that won't cause the same problems. | M | 4 | 3 months | 2/5/2009 |