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 |
| 4 | allergy induced asthma | The day after my daughter starting taking this medication she changed into an emotional mess!! She would go into rage fits out of no where. She began getting violent and throwing things if she didn't get what she wanted. She even became super violent with her sister. She would jump on her punch her slap her etc. | F | 8 | 7 days 44 | 12/18/2014 | 1 | asthma | tingling in arms hands face and neck. Rapid heart rate. High blood pressure. Problems sleeping. Strange dreams. Dizziness. insomnia. woke up a few days after starting this medicine with a bizarre sensation of dizziness. I sat up, then I noticed my heart was racing really fast and then numbness and tingling went down my left arm. I have an atrial tachycardia arithmea and thought that I might be having a stroke or heart attack. I went to the ER and my blood test and ekg were normal. No one knew what was wrong. It took me another 6 days to figure out that it was the flovent causing the problems! | F | 44 | 2 weeks | 10/24/2014 | 5 | reactive airway/asthma | None | This med has been a life-saver. My daughter has not wheezed since she started this drug. Before this, we were in the ER with every cold she got. She is 2.5, diagnosed with RAD at 18 mos. Rescue inhalers are not a substitute for long term control. If this drug does not work for your child, find another control! it is necessary. | F | 2.5 | 120 days 44mcg 2X day | 9/22/2014 | 1 | Do not give this med to your child. My five year old done became aggressive, irritable and sensitive...and it didn't even improve his condition. I suggest getting a detailed allergy testing to find out what's triggering his attacked I mean test them for everything. Also I noticed if I really pay attention to his diet, lots of smoothies and veggies he tends to do a lot better. Omega 3 , probiotic and the spice turmeric help with inflammation . Look up natural alternatives . They've helped with my son. Good luck | M | 5 | 1 days | 9/12/2014 | 1 | asthma | 10% weight loss, very easily and frequently bruised and bleeding from minor bumps and scratches, occasional depression, weakness in legs, feeling short of breath. | It worked on my asthma at first, but the side effects got worse and worse and became totally unacceptable. | F | 67 | 6 months 110mcg 2X day | 9/11/2014 | 5 | asthma | hoarseness, difficulty swallowing, thrush, tingling fingers, muscle weakness legs | Few mild side effects, but this has been the only inhaler that has worked for me and I only use my rescue inhaler twice a week instead of 4 times a day now. I can circumvent the oral side effects with hydrogen peroxide/water rinse. | F | 47 | 3 months 110mg 2X day | 8/28/2014 | 2 | Restrictive Lungs/ Marfan Syndrome | Weight loss, extreme fatigue, loss of appetite, mood swings, irritability, weakness in muscles, mild chest pain (common with Marfan Syndrome, but it has gotten worse) | This has helped with airflow to my lungs, but the side effects, in my opinon, aren't worth the easy breathing. After 3 collapsed lungs and a diagnosis of Marfan Syndrome, this was a test trial in an attempt to raise my lung capacity to that of a person my age. I am already underweight, but have lost about 5 pounds on this medication (this is a lot, considering my weight doesn't fluctuate more than a pound). I also find the medicine to be useless without the use of a 'spacer', as this helps get the most concentration of medicine. Overall, I hope another medicine could help with my condition, as this has barely helped, if not made my symptoms worse. I can't speak on behalf those with asthma, as I wasn't prescribed this for that reason. | F | 15 | 3 months 80 MG 4X day | 6/4/2014 | 1 | Asthma | My legs started to feel weak after about a week of being on it. Then, it got worse to where I was having trouble walking. And now my right knee is so sore and swollen behind the knee, like back of it, OMG. I can barely walk at all. Can't bend the knee. Never had this in my life. | For those of us who get "rare" side effects, this is a bad drug. I am praying the knee pain and joints in it get better now that I've stopped taking it. I have heard of others who got the same knee pain on this drug. It wasn't worth taking at all for me. I didn't even think it worked well on my Asthma. | F | 44 | 3 weeks 110mcg 2X day | 5/25/2014 | 3 | asthma | Side effects were extreme mood swings, irritability, skin issues, anxiety, swings in emotion. | This drug is definitely effective in controlling asthmatic symptoms, it takes symptoms away instantly. But side effects like most drugs are brutal and barely worth it. I was lucky enough to study physiology at university in New Zealand and start my own holistic health and fitness company in California, where my studies have led me to control my asthma 100% with nutrition (paleolithic diet basically with some supplementation). I wish someone had informed me about the effectiveness of ancestral nutrition when I was a child, but better late than never. Only someone who has had this illness can imagine how amazing it feels to be free of it and off of the medications (and side effects) used to control it. Our website has multiple nutrition articles that those with asthma will find very helpful - Bodyworks Lifestyle. com I am more than happy to answer any questions or help anyone who has asthma or a child with asthma. I am not a doctor, I am just sharing what has worked for me and for many of our clients with this illness so that I may help others | M | 31 | 5 years 250mcg 2X day | 12/23/2013 | 3 | severe environmental allergies/asth | his behavior is much worse on this but he isn't sick 9mos per year with URIs anymore. Becoming increasingly alarmed that he keeps getting fatter and fatter with pockets of cellulite and breasts. the only other thing he is on is very rare Proventil when needed, allegra, and Flonase. Thinking about stopping meds | anyone experience male child weight gain and breasts? the Proventil didn't do it so it is this or allegra | M | 8 | 1.5 years 2X day | 10/17/2013 | 2 | Asthma | It caused dizziness right after inhaling it and my vision seemed to get more blurry. I also noticed weight loss and fatigue. Additionally, I had indigestion and vomited on four different days while on it. | Needless to say, I went off of it. The dizziness would occur immediately after inhaling it. [Note: I did find out later that I had kidney stones. However, the vomiting and dizziness stopped when I ceased the Flovent]. | M | 51 | 5 days 100 mcg. 2X day | 9/6/2013 | 3 | asthma | I got several severe side effects,and my doctor said that's not because of flovent..Frrom very healthy and happy,nice woman I became hysterical disabled person!!!! | anxiety,clinical depression,panic disorder,canker sores,palpitation,sudden panic attacks with no reason,problem with vision/blurred/,lost 20%of my weight and can't regain/I'm now 102 lbs/..and more...POISON POISON POISON!!!!!!!!!. | F | 47 | 3.5 years 2X day | 6/5/2013 | 1 | Bad cough | Screaming, kicking, just completely out of control behavior. | My son has taken Flovent a few times in the past - colds hit him hard in the chest, and he gets really gunky coughs - and never had any problems with it. We started him on it this afternoon (I only did 1 puff) and he was fine, but tonight (2 puffs, as prescribed), within 10 minutes of taking it, he completely transformed. He started screaming, kicking, just out of his head, and even said, "I don't want to be alive." When he finally calmed down about 20 minutes later, I asked him why he said those words, and he replied, "I don't even know why." It's like the drug temporarily altered his brain. It was so scary. I am absolutely not using this drug again. Ever. | M | 5 | 2X day | 4/10/2013 | 4 | asthma symptoms | Mood swings, hitting herself constantly, punching herself in the face, does not listen to us, immediately starts crying when she does not get her way. I can honestly say she had never had such a bad temper and she was a well behaved child, would listen to us when we asked her to stop doing something. Now she says she is going to hit us, she will laugh when we discipline her, and she is just not the same little girl. I stay up nights crying wondering what we are doing wrong as parents. Her asthma has completely gone away and i really don't know what is worse, the not being able to breath or having her behave like a monster. | I am afraid if I tell my doctor about these side affects he is going to tell me I'm crazy and that I shouldn't listen to what people say on the internet. He says he has had asthma for most of his life and that he knows exactly what she is going through. I would love to know what other kids doctors have told their parents when wanting to get off the meds. | F | 5 | 45 days 44mcg 1X day | 3/24/2013 | 1 | possible asthma | VERY aggressive behavior!!! Temper tantrums, hitting, name calling. Hearing voices in his head. | We lost our little boy for almost a year. Once he started say he was hearing voices in his head, I started looking for answers. Thank god I found this website. Started weening him off his puffers immediately and three weeks later, we have our little boy back. No exaggeration, that was awful!!! Thank you everybody for sharing!! | M | 4 | 1 years 2X day | 3/13/2013 | 1 | Asthma | My son has been agressive, overly sensitive, hyper and argumentative since taking this medicine and Q-var. He is also very afraid to go to sleep by himself when he hasn't been that way in a year or so. He wakes up several times at night and turns on his nightlight. He's very anxious and said that he cannot get some things out if his head, that "he keeps seeing them" right in front of him. Similar behavior in school since taking this medicine and prior to that Q-Var. I want my sweet little boy back. I throw this medicine out first thing in the morning. | M | 5 | 3 weeks 40mg | 3/7/2013 | 3 | Asthma | I had success with the Flovent 110 inhaler, it controlled my asthma symptoms with no side effects. However, upon switching to the Flovent 250 Diskus, I developed moderate wheezing and worsening of my asthma symptoms, as well as a mysterious and significant rise in blood pressure (from low blood pressure to a diagnosis of pre-hypertension within weeks). My primary care doc was unconvinced that the disk could have caused this kind of reaction, but within four days of stopping the medicine and switching back to the 110 mcg inhaler, my blood pressure has returned to normal. The wheezing and coughing remain. | F | 23 | 3 years 110-250 2X day | 2/20/2013 | 1 | Wheezing from virus | My son 23 months took flovent twice this winter for wheezing during a cold/virus. First episode was fine, recovered, we moved on. This latest one, not so much. My wonderful, gentle boy has become manic. Sorry for crude analogy but he has been acting like a crackhead. Or possessed. Jittery at night, thrashing, fighting, refusing to sleep before midnight and never napping during the day. This is all new and we've been terrified, considering an ADHD consult with our peds. For over a month now, my son has not had adequate sleep in any form. We have now stopped the inhaler, after cutting all sugar and dyes from his diet, allowing 0 TV time, and attempting herbal baths and soothing/calming measures to no avail. Am hoping cutting flovent works for my son. Sounds like it worked for you all. | M | 2.5 | 1 months 1 puff 2X day | 2/7/2013 | 2 | Asthma | Behavior that fit description of child with bipolar disorder: extreme mood swings, agitated most of the time, angry, throwing chairs, threatening to kill\hurt people, violent nightmares, paranoia, easily distracted, nonsensical speech, looking to pick fights, fly into angry speech at slightest bump, scrape or comment she didn't like, hearing voices. | My daughter was put on at 2.5 yrs old. At the time I figured the anger problems were terrible twos and fact she was sick every 3 weeks with a virus. Behavior became so extreme I took her to child psychologist to be evaluated. All doctors we saw said it couldn't be the Flovent because it was such a low dose steroid. I was distraught and desperate when she started hearing voices so I frantically searched Internet and found this site. Thank god!! Once I read the posts, I weaned her off it over a week period. She's been off for 5 weeks now and is a totally different kid. She's the sweet, happy kid she used to be. The anger and agitation, violent talk, tantrums are gone. So the doctors are wrong that it can never happen! Some kids are apparently very sensitive to steroids. | F | 4.5 | 2 years 2 puffs 2X day | 1/24/2013 | 1 | Reactive Airway(Viral/cold induced) | I noticed my son was more emotional and aggressive after 2 weeks on Flovent (2puffs once per day) but assumed it was the terrible two's setting in. By week three on the drug, he escalated to erratic behavior, emotional outbursts, grinding his teeth during the day, 6 tantrums per day, screaming incessantly, bizarre hehavior, repeated hitting, and he completely regressed after being successfully potty trained for over 3 months. In my heart I knew this wasn't my son, but still thought he was going through a phase. I realized the only change that was going on in his life was the Flovent and googled "Flovent side effects" and found this page and other posts outlining the same issues. I am so grateful for this website. I immediately called my pediatrician who knows this is out of character for my son and he agreed it was a side effect and recommended weaning him to 1 puff for 3 to 5 days and stopping it completely. He suggested Advair, but after this experience, I am going to | My son was hospitalized with bronchiolitis at 5 months, RSV at 7 months and then we had to use albuterol for wheezing most times he had a cold from then on, and used a short dosage of prednisone on a few occasions. My pediatrician recommended trying pulmicort as a preventative, however we we did not do it, and were lucky because my son only had croup twice between 1 and 2 years (we did pull him out of daycare and had relatives to come in our home to watch him) He had 2 colds this summer with no issues, but then when he started daycare and a toddler program this fall, He had another cold that led to wheezing and prednisone, so we decided to try Flovent at the recommendation of our pediatrician. He is 2.5 and took it for 3 weeks and it had bad side effects. I would recommend watching your child closely if you decide to use this drug if they are between 0-5 years old. | M | 2.5 | 3 weeks 2 Puffs 1X day | 11/19/2012 |