FLOVENT Reviews (FLUTICASONE PROPIONATE)Average Rating: 2.2 (338 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare FLOVENT with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR FLOVENT | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 5 | asthma | noproblem | perect for 10year old | M | 15 | 6 months | 5/21/2009 | 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 | Asthma | BAD, BAD depression!!!!!!! My 16 year old went from happy to crying long & hard on a daily basis and thinking she was losing her mind. Embarassed that it took her 2 weeks to tell me and it took me another week to connect it to the Flovent, but the depression stopped within 24 hrs after stopping the Flovent. She was thrilled to be herself again and we were thrilled to have her. | F | 16 | 3 weeks | 5/10/2009 | 5 | asthma | none known | I've been on Flovent 110 for 12 years. I take 1 puff 1 time a day and it has DRAMATICALLY changed my life. I struggled for years as a child, beginning when I was 5. Within weeks I was free of the "wheezies". I now run, job, swim, dance-things I had never known as a child. I venture my neighborhood without my albuterol and don't freak out if I leave my purse and forget my resue inhaler. I have about 5-6 ashtma attacks a year now (opposed to 10-15 a week before) that are triggered by colds or hayfever. I just up my dose of Flovent and I'm fine. So far so good-I'm a long termer I suppose | F | 33 | 12 years | 4/27/2009 | 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 | 5 | Asthma | None | Flovent keeps my airways open when exposed to allergies--without it, I am forced to overuse my rescue inhaler | M | 20 | 8 days | 4/12/2009 | 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 | Asthma | Rapid weight gain, stomach cramps, fatigue, headache, joint pain, massive depression, loss of hair, low body temperature | The Dr told me there were no side effects and all the symptoms I had were all in the mind. All my blood tests came back normal. I only found out I had secondary adrenal suppression after I had a slight accident and went into shock. I immediately told the Dr I was not taking this any more and changed to a different inhaler. I have been slowly recovering from the adrenal suppression ever since but I'm still not right and I stopped taking this inhaler over two years ago. Losing the weight is proving to be impossible | F | 57 | 2 years | 4/1/2009 | 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 | 1 | relentless coughing | anxiety, nightmares, poor sleep, aggression, impatience, emotional, chills, inability to focus | I was prescribed flovent by my Dr. to get rid of a lingering stubborn spasmatic cough from a prior bronchial infection. I was told to take it for 10 days, but stopped on day 6 when I finally realized that the flovent was the cause of my side effects. When I read this webpage, I realized that it wasn't all in my head after all. It did however almost immediately stop my cough, but not worth the change in my personality in my opinion. It would have been nice to know about these side effects prior to taking the medication, but it was not listed on the package or the information sheet from the pharmacist, nor did my Dr. mention them. | F | 33 | 6 days | 3/18/2009 | 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 | 3 | Eosinphilic Esophagits | Our son, 15 years, was prescribed this drug last year to help open his esophagus. It does help, he can swallow meat without the "choking" feeling but the mood swings and depression are hard for us. When he goes off it for a week, we have our son back but not swallowing food is not an option. A high dose, 222 mcg - 4 puffs/2x a day is what is needed to keep his esophagus open for food consumption. | I wish the warnings about the psychological side effects were more clearly listed and shared. We need to find an alternative! | M | 15 | 13 months | 2/19/2009 | 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 | 2 | Asthma (seasonal) | Thrush | The old form of Flovent with the chloroflorocarbon propellant worked very well for me for a number of years but the newer 'powdery' formulation with the CO2 propellant does not. Despite mouth-rinsing and all that stuff after 72 hours' use of Flovent I can count on a dandy case of thrush for my trouble. In terms of therapeutics, I don't find the new formulation works at all well for me. The Dr. gave me a sample of Symbicort to try last time I was in to see him--much better for me. | M | 48 | 15 years | 2/16/2009 | 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 | 5 | asthma, nighttime cough | none | I'm shocked at the side effects people are mentioning. My son has seasonal asthma. Nov. - April, he develops a nighttime cough. It's pretty bad, keeps him and the rest of the household up. He has taken Flovent 2puffs, twice a day. I can sometimes drop to 1 puff twice a day, but not this year. His doctor added Singulair to his therapy and that is when we saw the side effects. Fortunately, I ran out of the med and we decided not to have it refilled, the Flovent is enough and we haven't added anything else. I am seeing a Pulmonary Specialist today just to cover all my bases. My pediatrician has been managing everything up to this point. | M | 8 | 6 years | 1/22/2009 | 1 | Asthma | Rage, anger, hallucinations, opposition, defiance, ADD, night terrors | We took our 8 y.o. son off Flovent on April 3, 2008 after having him on it for over 6 years. The changes have been dramatic. He is now a straight A student. All the side effects have vanished. We actually have a pretty regular 9 y.o. boy now! I would suggest alternative therapies before ever putting my child on this deamon drug. | M | 9 | 6 years | 1/22/2009 | 4 | asthma | No side effects at all. I did notice a huge (almost 2 inches!) growth spurt while off the med during the summer. Hearing about the possibility of stunted growth almost turned us away from using Flovent. I'm happy we didn't. Once the medication is stopped, the child is supposed to "catch up". | My 6 yr old son has been using Flovent since he was 2 1/2 yrs old for asthma. Two puffs (via spacer) once a day as a preventative and during flare ups he gets two puffs 3 times a day combined with Xopenex. Miracle drugs! | M | 6 | 4 years | 1/20/2009 |