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 |
| 1 | esophagitis | after starting this medication I first got a slight sore throat. After that my throat got worse, and I have the worse ear pain ever. | F | 57 | 5 days 220mcg 2X day | 6/27/2011 | 3 | Cold infection | Headache, tiredness. | Works well to decrease inflammation. | M | 25 | 10 days 2*110mcg 2X day | 4/22/2011 | 3 | asthma | Irritability, crying outbursts, restlessness, fever and cold symptoms. | My 17 month old son experienced major irritability, screaming fits, restlessness and flu like symtoms within days of starting Flovent. He woke up angry to the point we could not hold him and was unconsolable. He would throw his head and body around. He's been on the med for 6 days and began a fever on day 2 and has been ongoing. It has helped the wheezing but still is short of breath. I am stopping the Flovent today due to the major bahavioral problems. | M | 1 | 6 days 44 2X day | 4/17/2011 | 1 | Asthma | severe anger,violent outbursts,anxiety,betwetting and thoughts of dying | I don't believe that Flovent should ever be given to children. I am the parent of a normally sweet and kindhearted 8 year old son. His doctor put him on Flovent a few months back due to his severe asthma. At no time was I given any verbal information from her about the possible violent outbursts that have been reported by parents of children taking the medication. In fact it dosen't say much of anything in the Flovent pamphlet except that it was tested on 56 children. REALLY?? I can't imagine a parent seeing the life changing behavior problems that this medication causes and agreeing to continue use. He has been on several medications for his asthma since the age of 2 and never have we had the issues we are dealing with now. Even though we discontinued the use of this poison I feel that our son is still detoxing from what I can only descibe as unprovoked "ROID RAGE". And to top it off he dosen't have much memory of the episode after he calms down. Any input of possible long term side effects would be greatly appreciated. | M | 8 | 4 months 2X day | 4/15/2011 | 2 | Asthma | This medication did control my asthma, but at the expense of my weight. In literally 2-3 months after taking this medication, I experienced weight gain, since I had always eaten well and was "skinny", my peers we're very surprised that I had gained that much weight. The moment I went off the medication, I lost all of my excess weight. | M | 15 | 4 years 156 MCG 2X day | 4/6/2011 | 1 | Asthma | Frequent urination and accidents ( she has been potty trained for over a year), anger ( she has hit students in her day care, very abnormal behaviour.), deep sleep, depresion, and very emotional. | I am currently looking for an alternative to this steroid based drug. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. | F | 3 | 10 days 1X day | 4/1/2011 | 3 | asthma maintenance medicine | trouble sleeping, focusing, agitated at school,cannot keep hands to himself, quickly become angry - side effects similar to what you might see with a Steroid. | my 80 pound 8 year old son has had a bad reaction to flovent 220, flovent 110, pulmicort, asthmanex, singulair - finally we tried flovent 44. He does not have side effects,it works fine and he is a different kid,doctor would never have put a kid his age and weight on flovent 44 - its for little kids-but it works well for my son. Took him for check up and his breathing tests were 100% perfect. | M | 8 | 3 years 110/220/44 1X day | 3/15/2011 | 3 | Mild Intermittent Asthma | Mild Nausea, muscle aches, anxiety, mood swings, PVCs (benign heart arrhythmias) | I had been on Advair for a number of years with very positive results. Recently, my old friends premature ventricular complexes (PVCs) started acting up. I had had a lot of problems with Albuterol years ago causing these, so I was quick to suspect the bronchodilator in Advair and asked to switch to a corticosteroid only, so doctor put me on Flovent Discus 100. Since I sing, I asked to switch to the aerosol (Hfa). It does a good job with the bronchial inflammation, but every time I use it, i soon get a mild nausea. My PVCs have not really gone away, and I have been anxious and depressed. My back muscles ache at times and i feel it around in front. A heating pad on my back helps. I'm pretty active and never feel short of breath when exercising, but usually cough afterward My allergist had me use Spiriva for 10 days and then I am to switch to Symbicort. I am now in quite a rough spot and am both afraid of inhalers and craving them to relieve my asthma symptoms. It is really frustrating. | M | 46 | 1 months 110mcg 2X day | 3/7/2011 | 4 | Mild to Moderate Asthma | loss of appetite, incontinence, reflux/ gastro problems, nightmares | My daughter has been on various meds since 9mos old when had flu when diagnosed with Asthma. Used pulmicort nebulizer until age 2, began flovent 110, then flovent 44, then tried QVAR for a year or so; then back to 110 and been there ever since. She is now 7 1/2 Just now am beginning to understand behavior, loss of appetite,incontinece, reflux and nightmares could be a direct result of the flovent. With spring coming, I am hesitate, but am going to decrease to 2 puffs per day instead of the total of 4 and begin tracking symptoms. Is on flovent, pro air (daily before PE) stomach medicine to help appetite, and laxative. There has to be another way, too much medicine, but she has to eat and breath...I hate to see her suffer... | F | 34 | 4 years 110 4X day | 3/3/2011 | 5 | Asthma | No side effects. Flovent has been a godsend for us and has kept my DD out of the hospital. | My DD started Flovent 44 mcg 2 puffs 2x per day when she was 6 months old. She went up to Flovent 110 2 puffs 2x per day when she was 3 and alternates between that and Flovent 220. When we have tried to wean her off of Flovent, she has been hospitalized every time for asthma. She is a sweet, sunny natured easy 7.5 year old who has a fantastic attention span, is super smart and is loved by her teachers and friends. She does very well in school, music, ballet etc. Without Flovent, her asthma would be out of control. | F | 40 | 7 years 220 2 puff 2X day | 2/28/2011 | 1 | asthma | my son is 10 1/2 months old and has been in and out of the dr for chronic cough and wheezing since the end of summer '10, it was always considered a "cold" until another MD saw him and said it was asthma. Followed up with his primary who prescribed Flovent and a strong abx for ear infection, was told to see a pediatric pulmonologist. I started the abx but didnt give the flovent. His breathing has been great no albuterol or anything since january. We saw the pulmonologist and she was concerned we didnt start the flovent that was prescribed a month ago and said to start it, i told her my son had been doing great and i didnt see reason to but she insisted, so we started it this past wednesday, wednesday evening my son developed a 101.9 fever and very cranky, thursday severe diarrhea and fever all day only going down to 100.3 with tylenol, very lethargic not eating or drinking his bottle and wanting to be held. This all sounds like the flu and thats what ive treated it as, but no | after reading all the comments on here especially that its not for kids under 4, i am not going to give this any longer, i feel its only hindered his health and not helped :( sorry i put my son through this | M | 1 | 4 days 44 2X day | 2/27/2011 | 1 | asthma | My 3 year old was recently put on flovent for allergic asthma and has had side effects much like the other parents here have stated. The worst was the insane temper tantrums but the sleeplessness has been a nightmare as well. He can stay up until 11pm and then be up again at 2am for hours. He is agitated, violent, restless, poor appetite. He was also started on singulair for EE and we stopped that thinking it was causing the side effects but he was still bad so we stopped the flovent as well. The side effects all went away. We restarted the flovent to see if it was the singulair and the side effects came back within 2 days. Definitely stopping this medication. | F | 3 | 2 months 100mcgs 2X day | 2/10/2011 | 5 | asthma | None that I know of | My 4 year old has been on this for about 2 years and I'm QUITE PLEASED with the results. He was getting pneumonis, bronchitis, croup every year until he started this. It's gotten so much better that this year he has a little croupy cough but doesn't even need to visit the doctor for it! | M | 4 | 2 years 44mcg 2X day | 1/31/2011 | 3 | Asthma | Question: We are taking our 8 year old boy off Flovent after experiencing changes in his behaviour-- aggressiveness, anger, irritability... etc. How long will it take for Flovent to leave his system? | M | 8 | 2 months 2X day | 12/4/2010 | 3 | asthma | nightmares, terrible behavioral issues, urinary frequency, acute ocd | Before being on flovent my 4 yr old son was on pulmicort which worked great but he hated the nebulizer. After having H1N1 the doctor changed the rx to pro air and flovent via chamber. At first we thought this is great no more arguing over the nebulizer. This season he started taking the flovent and he has become a completely different child. Very defiant, and out of control! Nightmares all the time and urinary frequency and is ocd about things like ripping paper. It has made us all feel crazy until tonite. I didnt see any difference last year, not sure why now. I am keeping him on it til we find something else, he needs it, pro air isnt enough. It has kept him breathing, but our family will have to figure out how to help him get through the day. Any suggestions on other inhalers? | M | 4 | 3 weeks 44 mcg 2X day | 11/11/2010 | 3 | Asthma and allergies | My son is getting in trouble in school, not able to stay focus. He had been on Flovent for a while and I noticed his personality changing, crying alot, get angry. I took him off the medicine on my own and noticed a changed for the better, then his pediatrician put him back on it, because was wheezing and became sick. Since he's been back on it for about 30days his behavior is back on the negative side again. Teacher conferences at school, its now becoming a bigger problem. I want to thank the lady that recommends Pulmicort, I will get his pulmonologist to see if my son can try this. | F | 40 | 30 4X day | 11/3/2010 | 3 | Cold on-set Asthma | Flovent has stopped my 5 year old daughter from wheezing and coughing and since she has been on Flovent for about 40 days now, she is not wheezing at all. But the side effects are just starting to become more pronounced. she is becoming aggressive, less focused and restless. I am getting a call home from her teacher every week regaridng her behavior and last year when she was in pre-k, I never got a call while she was on pulmicort and albuterol. I absolutely hate answering the call, when I see the school's number pop up on the screen. I am so calling her pediatrician, because something is wrong. I think I am going back to pulmicort. I can't take the phone calls. | F | 40 | 40 days 1X day | 10/18/2010 | 3 | Mild Intermittant Asthma | Irritability, restlessness, poor concentration and anger issues | I feel like such an idiot, my son has been on this medication with fluctuating doses for five years. I once took him off the medication, due to insurance issues but he was put back on it once that was resolved and he had had a serious asthma attack (most times ending with a 2 day stint in the local childrens hospital with breathing treatments and many doses of prednisone.) He has since not had any asthma attacks in the past 3 years. I NEVER attributed his behavior with this medicine I just assumed he's a little boy, he's active and rambunctious, but after reading so many of these posts I feel like I am reading the story of my son's life on Flovent. He has had a difficult time in school, with repeated phone calls from teachers stating he is restless in his seat, gets distracted easily and is quickly angered. I was starting to question whether my child had ADHD. I am going to take him off this medication tonight! Hopefully this will result in a change in his behavior and allow him to be a happy energetic- but not crazy- child again who loves school! | M | 8 | 5 years 44 mcg 4X day | 10/9/2010 | 3 | Asthma | My son (5yrs old) started taking Flovent this year for asthma. He took Pulmicort breathing treatments last year but had terrible side effect going on the medication and coming off so the doctor decided to try a low dose of Flovent this year. We had definite reservations about using anything this year but he had pneumonia 3 times last year and ended up at the hospital. We have seen some aggression from him and moodiness. I read the fine print of the pamphlet which says that they tested Flovent on 56 pediatric patients-that is not a lot for a study. The fine print does say"agitation, aggression, anxiety, depression, and restlessness. Behavioral changes, including hyperactivity and irritability have been reported very rarely and primarily in children." The info is there so if your child is experiencing these symptoms you are not crazy. We are going to try just one puff a day and see how it goes. If the behavior changes are severe again we are going to stop the Flovent. Not sure | F | 5 | 2 days 220 mcg 2X day | 9/26/2010 | 1 | asthma like cough | severe nausea and abdominal cramps with bowel movements, changes in bowel habits, frequent urination, clingyness, not sleeping well, some dizzyness | My 7 year old daughter has been on Singulair and Nasonex for about 4 years with no side effects. Due to an allergy cough, her pediatrician prescribed Flovent. It worked well at first until I started noticing changes in her, especially the severe nausea and abdominal pain. We went down to one puff a day and decided to wean her off it. The side effects were not worth it, especially after reading some of the more severe side effects that she could potentially begin to suffer. If necessary, we'll ask for a safer alternative! | F | 39 | 30 days 110 2X day | 9/25/2010 |