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 | Extra mucus and hoarse voice | This drug has enabled me to exercise again and resume a normal life. My asthma had gotten so bad that I could barely go up and down stairs without wheezing and this drug helped all of that. After 2 weeks I felt a world better and now I'm on 2 months and everything is great. I haven't noticed any side effects, mood changes or weight gain. | F | 29 | 2 months | 10/13/2007 | 1 | Asthma - recently diagnosed | My son was on Flovent for 4 weeks when I noticed him becoming much more combative than usual (he's 14). But I didn't put it together until he began arguing about EVERYTHING and bouncing off the walls, literally. | I had a light bulb moment and ran to my puter. I typed in FLOVENT BEHAVIOR CHANGES and this webpage popped up. Thank goodness! I called the Dr. the next day and took him off it and he returned to normal within a day! | M | 14 | 1 months | 10/5/2007 | 1 | asthma - allergy and virus induced | Daughter was AGGRESSIVE, IRRITABLE, DEPRESSED, had INSOMNIA, NIGHT TERRORS, SKIN SENSATIONS, HALUCINATIONS, IRRATIONAL FEARS, TANTRUMS and ANGER, DIFFICULTY URINATING, oppositional, defiant, self-hating, world hating | This med was a nightmare - stopped several times to prove side-effects were from Flovent but had to go back on due to asthma. These 'psychotic effects' are listed on product monograph but not on product insert. REPORTS to Health Canada (or similar) will lead to the addition of a warning on the insert. When off the med we got our daughter back - she was back to normal. She's back up to 4 puffs of ventolin per day now so we're forced to try out Pulmicort (a similar steroid). Doctors look at us like we're crazy - prescribing physicians don't know about this risk! HELP THESE KIDS! | F | 6 | 3 years | 10/3/2007 | 3 | asthma | Agression, anxiety, very tired, bad sleep patterns, outbursts | My 5 year old son has been taking flovent for about 2 years in various doses. Right now, he has been on 110 twice a day and has been acting aggressively, has tantrum outbursts, is very disobedient, seems out of control, etc. The sad part is that when I talk to my son about his behavior and try to get him to tell me why he is acting so badly, his response is "I don't know why mama." Now, that I have read all of the comments about the behavior exhibited by other children on flovent, I truly believe that he doesn't know why he is behaving outrageously and can't control his behavior. I hope that there is an alternate solution to flovent. Thank you all for entering your comments, I was beginning to feel like our son was developing behavior that was totally out of our control. | F | 48 | | 9/28/2007 | 4 | asthma | None that I have noticed with my six year old daughter | Our daughter was prescribed Flovent 2 years ago. So far the drug has been a great help, especially since her asthma specialist increased her dose to one puff in the morning and one puff at night last april. Despite having seasonal allergies to trees, grass, ragweed and allergies to our dog, the last five months have been great. Not one episode of coughing in all of july and august. Now that school has started, she has already caught a cold but it it well under control with two puffs of flovent in the morning and two in the evening ( as her doctor has prescribed when she has a cold). Others parents who are having trouble with this medication should take into consideration whether or not it truly is the Flovent or could it be SINGULAIR, which is often prescribed at the same time, for children with asthma. Our daughter took Singulair for 4 days last april and THAT medication was a nightmare. Just double-check and good luck. | F | 6 | 2 years | 9/10/2007 | 1 | asthma | My daughter has been taking flovent for a year and although her coughing is better, her anger and emotions are out of control! We had recently increased her dosage quite a bit to help control a recent exacerbation of her asthma and the angry outbursts have greatly increased as well. | I was so glad to read that other parents are having this issue. I was beginning to think we were on our way to a child psychologist! I can't wait to see the change! | F | 7 | 1 years | 8/29/2007 | 5 | eosinophilic esophagitis | raspy voice; moderate weight gain | complete relief of severe EE symptoms | F | 50 | 6 weeks | 8/10/2007 | 1 | asthma | aggressive behavior, emotional, overly sensitive | F | 5 | | 8/8/2007 | 1 | Asthma | My daughter's pediatrician put her on Flovent and Singulair for her asthma. For the past 3 years, we have been seeking help from books, websites and numerous sessions with a psycholigist to determine the reason behind her extremely angry, violent,agressive and oppositional behavior. (Roid-rage on Steroids! (redundancy intended))We took her off both meds last week and she's been an angel ever since. She is also very small for her age (5) which I wonder might also be attributable to the Flovent. | I am beside myself. (Singulair apparently also causes similar side effects.) How many kids have been abused by a parent who lost it because their kid was in a Flovent-induced rage, acting like a rabid animal?? I am calling an attorney today. | F | 5 | 2 years | 7/30/2007 | 1 | asthma/chronic upper res infections | Terrible&rapid weight gain, horrible hunger, puffy/swollen face, nose and entire body, loss of muscle definition (even though I was at the gym 4 days a week!), Blurry vision and retina problems and terrible mood swings with uncontrollable ager outbursts. | This medicine did knock out my asthma and as a result not one single cold from Jan '07-May '07- even though my husband and kids were sick. That was nice but the awful and detrimental side effects are NOT worth it!! PLEASE do not even consider this medicine. | F | 39 | 4 months | 7/12/2007 | 3 | copd | thrush | F | 72 | 5 years | 7/10/2007 | 5 | Prevent Asthma Episodes | Puffy face, increased sleepiness. Painful lump in left breast. After mammo and 3 dr. opinions, decided it was stress and/or glands collecting something possibly related to steroid. | Flovent, when taken regularly almost totally knocks out my need for ventolin. However, I'm looking for an alternative to see if the puffy steroid look goes away. I was told by my initial dr. who put me on Flovent years ago that the systemic affect was just about zero, since it really only goes to your lungs. I don't buy that anymore. | F | 38 | 6 years | 6/19/2007 | 2 | asthma | Aggression, oversensitivity, anger that lasted hours and hours. We also had to be very careful about washing all the meds from her mouth and face as it caused her skin to be very dry. | Our daughter's asthma seems to come on when she has a cold. We are trying chiropractic to see if her airways can be naturally opened up. We have decreased her flovent by half. She hasn't gotten a cold yet, so we haven't been put to the test, but she is a much nicer, easier, happier person already. | F | 3.5 | 1 years | 6/4/2007 | 1 | Allergy Induces Asthma | Aggression, Loss of Control, Trouble Sleeping, Anger, Major Behavior Issues | It is such a relief to read other parents are having behavioral issues with children on Flovent! My son is so angry and emotional on this medicine and the Doc says, "oh, he's just a boy". I am printing this site out and taking it to the allergist asap and demanding a different solution. And to think I've been researching child psychologists to take him to!!! | M | 6 | 1.5 years | 5/21/2007 | 1 | reactive airways disease (RAD) | chest pains, neuropathic pains (hands/feet), dizziness, sudden weight loss (131 pounds to 105 in 10 weeks), shaking, anxiety (during withdrawal), sore throat, dry mouth, red/burning quality to skin, difficulty swallowing | I took 5 puffs daily of this medication in a 110 dose. Although it suppressed my coughing, it created so many other health troubles, I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. I reported my side effects to the manufacturer who said they would forward the info to the FDA. Steroids may benefit some people, but this one ruined my health. Since discontinuing it, some of my symptoms have resolved, and I'm hoping the others will go in time. | F | 46 | 4 months | 5/19/2007 | 1 | Asthma/Croup preventative | Side Effects? They should be called mind & body altering effects! I wouldn't call living with a little devil a "side effect"! :) Flovent is horrible! We have "tested" this medicine several times by taking him off and putting him back on to monitor the aggression issues we felt were being caused by Flovent. On the medicine for about a week he becomes the devil! He has unbelievable tantrums. His aggression towards himself and other members of the family are truly scary. He hits himself, kicks, screams and becomes unruly and irrational over minor issues (like not wanting to wear a certain pair of shoes or socks, etc.) His fierce tantrums can last an hour or longer. They are severe and he's excruciatingly persistent on winning. His sleeping patterns are also affected. Bedtime is a nightly battle often not falling asleep until 10/11pm. He wakes at all hours of the night and is ready to rise when it is still dark outside. After several trials, he returns to norm | Flovent is in the trash! My daughter takes Q-var with no known side effects to us so we will ask to be switched to this. We have given Flovent several tries and are now convinced that this medicine is NOT for our son. We are all miserable when he's on this. | M | 3 | 1 years | 4/23/2007 | 1 | Asthma | My son has been taking medicine for over a year. While it did control his asthma, he caused severe agression. We are now taking him off the medication. | My doctor did see other patients with similar reaction to Flovent however not reported in studies. We ran out of med for over a week and the change in behavoir was dramatic! Put him back on and the glazed look came over him and agression began | M | 5 | 1 years | 4/20/2007 | 1 | allergic asthma | feeling like my throat has closed up, upset stomach, cold sweats while feeling cold. grumpier than usual. | F | 16 | 1 months | 4/3/2007 | 1 | To control seasonal asthma. | Itching,Hives, Muscle aches and pains, anxiety, irrational fears, skin feeling "hot"and prickly. Tummy aches daily. White patches in mouth. My poor daughter! She's just been miserable till our doctor finallly told her to stop taking it. | F | 7 | 2 months | 4/2/2007 | 1 | asthma | since they changed one of the ingredients in flovent,every time i take a puff my chest gets tight and i get shortness of breath,this never happened before they changed the ingredient,i can't use this medicine anymore,whats another good asthma medicine. | M | 45 | 6 years | 2/8/2007 |