FLOVENT Reviews (FLUTICASONE PROPIONATE)Average Rating: 2.2 (338 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare FLOVENT with similar:
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| 1 | asthma and allergies | My son 4, has been taking flovent for almost a year. His coughing has lessened but his aggression is out of control. He has kicked, slapped, and punched me in the last few months. He has completely changed behaviorally. I will discontinue this drug and switch to something else as soon as I can because I am scared our relationship is being affected by this medication far more than it's helping. I have since had to go on a depression medication because of the stress this drug has put onto our family. | I would definitely test this medication on a short time basis and look for similar behavior before committing any child to it. | M | 4 | 1 years | 2/7/2007 | 5 | asthma | none | inhaling one puff two times daily has really helped me - no more attacks, do not need to carry my albuterol with me. | M | 42 | 1 months | 1/29/2007 | 2 | asthma | My daughter was on Flovent when she was 8 She was on it for 2 years. She was aggressive and very emotional. Later she started having hallucinations. She would say her hands felt bigger than what they were. She could hear voices but they were not saying anything just a lot of noise. | Took her to neruologist who couldn't find any problems and recommended a psychiatrist. The neurologist suggested "off the record" that this could be a result of Flovent. She had a freind that experienced similar problem with her daughter. I took her off and within 6 months problems was resolved. All doctors day this was not the case but I still believe that Flovent caused the problems | F | 11 | 2 years | 12/27/2006 | 2 | Asthma | My son is 2 1/2 years old and has been taking Flovent for about six months. He has become very hostile, moody, and aggressive. His temper tantrums and rage are scary to watch and disruptive to everyone in the family. It did help prevent the serious asthma issues we were having before using it, but we can't continue like this any longer. | We are at our wits end! Our pulmonologist says his lungs are too "fragile" to take him off of steroids, but he advised switching to QVAR now. It is a horrible situation to be in -- you need your kid to breathe but you also need him to be a functioning human being!! | F | 2 | 6 months | 12/19/2006 | 1 | asthma | My son started taking Flovent when he was 3 1/2 and became very aggressive. He would say very violent things and became dangerous to be around. | As soon as we stopped the medication he returned to his normal self. | M | 4.5 | 5 days | 12/15/2006 | 1 | asthma | My son started taking Flovent when he was 3 1/2 and became very aggressive. He would say very violent things and became dangerous to be around. | As soon as we stopped the medication he returned to his normal self. | M | 4.5 | 5 days | 12/15/2006 | 3 | asthma | Shortness of breath, wheezing, coughing | F | 56 | 60 days | 11/25/2006 | 3 | asthmatic daughter | Since my daughter began taking flovent approximately 3 years ago at the age of 3-1/2, we have noticed significant increase in aggression...Complete turn-around from her temperment prior to using the medication. She has been able to be much more active, but don't know whether it is any healthier for her to experience such violent outbursts...She does not seem to be the child that we used to know. | Sadly, we have just recently made the connection between asthma medication and our daughter's aggression. I finally have gotten up enough courage to tell people the difficulty we are having with her--Our pediatrician told us that she never heard of this type of connection. She recommended that we see a psychotherapist. I just don't know what to do now. My daughter has severe asthma...She needs to breathe, but yet cannot function like this in our home. | F | 6.5 | 3 years | 11/24/2006 | 1 | prescribed by pediatrician | My son had severe anxiety attacks, coughing spasms, uncontrolled anger. crying, fear and panic attacks. I had never seen this before in my son, his teacher's recommended a psychiatrist. He went as far to hitting his head on a desk at school. I stopped giving him the flovent for two days and the anxiety starting easing up. I have never seen anything like this before! | M | 8 | 3 months | 10/21/2006 | 3 | breathing difficulties | My 27 month old son was prescibed Flovent at the ER when he had a sudden respiratory attack (wheezing/labored breathing/rib cage moving when breathing). As of today, my son has not been diagnosed with either asthma or allergies. Family doc said that there is a fine line between the two and to continue using the inhalers for the next few weeks. He gets very angry and edgy after using it. | M | 2 | 9 days | 9/14/2006 | 4 | asthma | severe headaches, mood changes, weight gain. | It really works. no more visits to the emergency, no need to use albuterol. I have taken in the past, was asthma free for about 3 years. My Ashthma is allergy induced this year with all the rain has been pretty bad. Starting to wean my self off gradually, taking 1 dose every other day. | F | 43 | 3 months | 7/13/2006 | 1 | Asthma Preventative | My 3 year old son used Flovent for almost a year before we figured out that it was causing his agressive, out-of-control behavior. He had trouble at his preschool and we felt completely out of control. When summer hit, we decided to wean him off and our sweet boy returned. But we didn't make the connection until we started him on it again when a teacher commented about his coughing & sounding "asthmatic." After only one day, his teacher complained of his disrespectful behavior and he was a complete monster as compared to the day before...it finally dawned on us to research side effects. (He had the same side effects taking Zyrtec for allergies, which is what the ped. said he had before diagnosing him with asthma). | I would not recommend this for young children. Would love to hear of alternatives for controlling asthma (if my son even really has it). | M | 3 | 9 months | 6/23/2006 | 5 | Athsma | Hoarsness - gargling with warm salt water helped this. My athsma was getting bad again due to allergy season so I went up to 2 puffs 2x/day, and experienced extreme moodiness, and feelings of agression while falling asleep. I'm a very gentle, introverted person not given to these aggressive urges. I was able to control them, but I can't always control the crying or snapping at loved ones. Lots of Omega 3's helped that. I have also had a migraine constantly for the last month, and nothing else in my life has changed except raising my dose of flovent up to the standard perscribed dose. It hurts to brush my hair and swallow food,and all my joints hurt. Other than this athsma I am in perfect health. I am content, vey healthy and live an active life. I am planning to slowly reduce my dose and end up at one puff at night only. | Flovent has been the most effective and unobtrusive of all the medications I've tried. It really does work for athsma. However, I am quite anxious to get off of it and get my energy and motivation back, and not be so moody all the time. I have also been doing the Buteyko method for athsma and it works well, if you have lots of time to commit to it. It is allowing me to slowly reduce the medication. | F | 27 | 3 months | 6/19/2006 | 3 | Asthma /Allergies | My daughter has become agressive and some what violent on this medicine. I'm looking for alternatives. | Helps the constant cough | F | 4 | 7 days | 5/17/2006 | 4 | allergies | very moody, outburst of anger, feeling sad, weight gain, upset stomach, headache, joint pain, I had none of these problems before. I am not an angry person I love life and people... well not anymore, my poor husband he cant do a thing right | Flovent really helps my allergies, before I couldnt breath and I kept getting sinus infections (about 12 last year) but I hate what it is doing to me, I cant decide what to do? | F | 24 | 4 weeks | 5/9/2006 | 1 | allergies to dust,trees,pollen | Only on my third dose and my throat felt like I had a golf ball stuck in it and my face felt like it was coming off a numbing from the dentist I stopped it. | Not even sure why my allergy doctor put me on this after reading all the side effects ect I don't think it is worth it for me. | F | 40 | 1.5 days | 4/29/2006 | 1 | Asthma | Within 3 days of my 5 yr old being put on Flovent my son was gone and Satan had decided to take his place. He was bouncing off the walls within minutes of inhaling it. He would literally RUN for the next two hours. The whole time singing,growling,yelling. He would then pass out and go to sleep. The temper tantrums were unreal. The minute he was told no he would attack you. Screaming,scratching,biting,hitting,etc My dr said that these were not side effects of Flovent and that I should get my son couseling. I said he never did this before going on Flovent. She told me to keep him on it. I left,went home and threw the Flovent out. I will NOT be using giving that to my son again. It has beem 4 days since stopping the Flovent. My child is back to normal and we have a new dr. Not all drs know what they are doing. | I do not even think my son has asthma. He has never had an attack. He has allergies just like everyone in our family. Runny nose,dark circles under his eyes,watery eyes. Our new dr does not think he has astham either. He has an appt for allergy tests next week. | M | 5 | 8 days | 4/24/2006 | 1 | daughter for asthma | Our pediatrician prescribed this for our daughter for asthma when she was 2 1/2 yrs old. (She had been on several other asthma meds before.) After only a couple doses of this medicine, she experienced a severe sudden onset of aggression, throwing herself around in a fit of anger, hallucinations, and saying weird things about bugs. I went in her room in the middle of the night and she was hysterical, talking about her toes being square and all sorts of other strange things. I immediately took her off of it. It was terrifying. | Doctor and pharmacist were adamant that they had never heard of these types of side effects. But the symptoms went away immediately within the day or two after we stopped the med. It is over a year later and she's never experienced anything like that again. I have no doubt in my mind that it was as a result of flovent. I would not recommend this to anyone for use with a small child. | F | 2 | 2 days | 2/12/2006 | 4 | 4 | My daughter started taking flovent when she was a toddler, around 1 year old. We took her off it at 3 and a half because she wasn't having asthma symptoms anymore and we weren't even sure we believed she had asthma. After taking her off of it she had a HUGE growth spurt. From 25 lbs and 38" tall to 37.5 lbs and 42" tall, in just a couple of months! It was definetly stunting her growth. | It did work well for her persistant coughing. | F | 3 | 2 years | 12/31/2005 | 1 | asthma | My son took Flovent for about 3 years, and I always wondered if it was making him a bit harder to get along with, altho his behavior was well within range of normal. Then, when he turned 5, he developed severe behavioral problems. He became irritable, aggressive, overly sensitive. He would regularly hit, kick and bite me and his little sister. When placed in time-out, he would do damage to his room, at one point even breaking a window pane. We reduced his initial dose and saw no decrease in this behavior. We reduced it again to just one puff a day and, within a few days, our sweet, kind, pre-Flovent little boy was back. Also discovered Flovent can predispose you to glaucoma, which we have a strong history of in our family. Have discontinued the medicine. | Flovent worked very well to control my son's asthma. But the price was FAR too high. Parents should be warned to watch carefully for behavioral side effects. We spent a year going a parenting improvement program--only to discover that we were fine parents, as long as our son wasn't on Flovent! | M | 5 | 3 years | 10/12/2005 |