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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR SINGULAIR | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | Asthma- cat allergy | Night terrors, screaming up to 40 times a day, hitting, aggression, hyperactivity, insomnia, lack of attention span, where previously there was a great one. | I only figured this out a few days ago. She is also on Advair inhaler daily. I've even changed her diet. I'm so glad to see that these medicines may be the cause of behavior that is soooo terrible, that we've had to isolate from family members. | F | 4 | 8 months | 12/21/2009 | 1 | asthma | aggressiveness,tantrums,nightmares,hearing voices,ADHD behavior | My six year old son has been on Singulair for almost one year. It has worked for his asthma but we have seen a sweet happy little boy turn into a monster! The changes did not happen right away but slowly. After his dosage was increased when he turned six things have escalated. He has been a crazy child since starting kindergarten. He is now in the care of a child psychologist, child psychiatrist and a team at his school. He has been suspended for his behavior and kicked out of his after school program. He started meds for ADHD 3 weeks ago with little improvement in his behavior. Like many other parents I have asked the doctors can it be the Singulair and they all say oh no way! After talking with a pharmacist who told me of the horrible side effects - which by the way are not listed on the drug companies web site - I have chosen to stop the Singulair. I pray that it is the cause and that I will get by sweet loving little boy back. Something should be done about this and everyone should complain LOUDLY to the drug company! If it turns out that our world has been turned upside down by this and hundreds of dollars spent on our son's mental health issues someone sure will hear from me!!!!!!!!! | M | 6 | 11 months | 12/17/2009 | 2 | astma | my 4 yr old daughter has allways been strong minded. she just started nursery in sept. her we chest had been giving her bother and i was worried about her attendance in school so her doctor prescribed singular chewable. when i thin back to when she started talking them she cried non stop at night for 4 nights she has now become anxious crying and really bad tantrums i have decide from today that im going to take her of these tablets because she is crying non stop from she gets up till she goes to bed. | woulnt recommend these tablets this is a mother whose child had to get 12 teeth out with medication for asthma | F | 4 | 3 days | 12/16/2009 | 2 | asthma | mood swings, crying, obsessive compulsive behaviors, anger. | It worked great for her asthma, but the side effects are awful. We will be stopping this med to see if the other behaviors improve. | F | 7 | 2 months | 12/15/2009 | 1 | Allergies | Seperation anxiety, uncontrolled crying, general anxiety | My 7 year old has been taking drug on and off since she has been 2. She has suffered on and off from bouts of crying, unexplained fears and SEVERE seperation anxiety that started out of nowhere. We were never able to pinpoint a reason until reading experiences of others. I mentioned this to her doctor when it all began and the idea of this med causing anxiety was dismissed. I feel so guilty for not checking into this sooner, and especially for not persuing it further. She asks way too many questions about death, dying and cemetaries and we could never figure out why. She cries when happy, sad, scared for just about anything at all. Always intermittently, never consistently. When you ask her why, all she can say is I can't help it. We could never figure what the trigger would be, now I have finally have a place to start. She is off the med for 10 days now, and hopefully it will work it's way out of her system sooner rather than later. | F | 7 | 4.5 years | 12/10/2009 | 1 | coughing related to asthma | severe nightmares,aching legs | Please do not give this to your children! My confident child turned into a clingy, insecure little girl within 3 days. She had "bad nightmares, mommy" and said they were really bad and she didn't want to talk about it. My little girl normally describes everything in detail. She also had aches in her legs. | F | 4 | 3 days | 12/7/2009 | 1 | asthma | frustrated, unable to concentrate, teacher and family noticed a definite change in personality and performance, frustration lead to verbally expressing wanting to "kill myself" | This is about my very intelligent, sensitive 8 yr old nephew. This scared our whole family. THE BEST WAY TO BRING ATTENTION TO THESE ADVERSE EVENTS IS TO REPORT THEM TO THE DRUG MAKER MERCK AT 800-444-2080 AND THE FDA AT http://www.fda.gov/medwatch. THIS WILL HELP BRING ABOUT AWARENESS AND CHANGE. | M | 8 | 3 weeks | 12/7/2009 | 1 | seasonal asthmatic symptoms | nightmares, anxiety attacks, anger, change in behavior | My 3yo son started taking this 4 days ago. The first night, he had a nightmare. Starting soon after, he started hearing "sounds". We never figured out what he heard, but he'd climb the walls screaming even when he would hear you scratch. This evening he had a 2 hour anxiety attack. His personality has changed even in this short time: he's moody and angry. I wondered if it was the medication, and Google brought me here. There is now no doubt in my mind, and my child will no longer take this. | M | 3 | 4 days | 12/6/2009 | 1 | seasonal allergies | anger, screaming, hitting, crying, excessively tired, quickly escalating emotions | My 6 y.o. daughter has only been on this medication for two weeks but it has been the worst two weeks of my life! Her personality changed almost overnight from an occasionally moody but usually sweet child to a hostile, angry, almost violent little girl. She would go from zero to full-on fit in an instant. I talked to everyone including her teacher and school social worker, desperate for an answer until I thought about the medication connection. We stopped it two days ago and already she has calmed down tremendously. Trust yourself as a parent! A child's personality should not change so dramatically overnight. | F | 6 | 16 days | 12/4/2009 | 1 | Allerty, Asthma, Congestion | Extremely emotional, uncontrollable crying, kicking, screaming, unable to calm down, back aches. | My 3yr old son was on singulair for 2 days. It cleared up his symptoms immedietley, but that is when eveything else started happening. He went to preschool and had a melt down over nothing, kicking & screaming, rolling on the floor. He could not calm down and everything seemed to agitate him more. The tantrum lasted for 90 min. and I had to come get him & bring him home. The next morning he started complaining that his back hurt, the crying started again and his teacher said he has been in a bad mood all day. This was not my son. I was so worried. The Dr. said to discontinue taking it. Now I'm wondering how long it stays in his system. | M | 3 | 2 days | 12/3/2009 | 2 | allergies | hyper-active followed by extreme fatigue, pounding heartbeat, confusion, anxiety, crying spells, depression, loss of focus, | my daughter started taking this medicine about 5 months ago to control allergies. Other medicines did nothing for her allergies but Singular controlled her symptoms quickly. Slowly her personality changed. At first she was very chatty and no longer shy. We attributed this to benefits of after school activities. Then she slept all of the time. Everyone tried to tell me she was just growing. She began eating only half of what she did before. Then, she would suddenly start crying and running around saying "I don't know what I am supposed to do. I can't think. My little heart is beating so fast it's pounding." Her focus on schoolwork declined and her behavior grades declined. I could not imagine my 6 yr old suffering with a mental breakdown. Then, for the first time, the warning label appeared on the prescription. I thought it was a mistake until I found this site. Now it is all clear. I discussed it with her doctor and stopped Singular immediately. It is now listed under her drug allergies. I would never give this to a child. According to her doctor this medicine actually is in the same family as antidepressants. There are multiple warnings about antidepressants in children. I can't believe they are marketing this medicine to children. It needs to be banned for use in children. I pray all effects are reversible. | F | 6 | 5 months | 12/2/2009 | 1 | Presumed allergies, cough, wheezing | Mood swings, odd behavior, nightmares. | I only gave my son 3 doses of this medication. Two of those 3 days, he had nightmares. He was also a little more moody than usual and had behavior that was totally out of character for him. | M | 3 | 3 days | 12/2/2009 | 2 | to control asthma-inducing allergie | Extreme anxiety, worrying, and obsessive compulsive behavior | I am sitting here in tears because I have only stumbled upon this information and and will stop giving this to my daughter immediately. My daughter has always been somewhat shy and concerned about things, but within recent months, she has been having extreme anxiety, running back in to check the door locks, asking "what if...?" constantly. A babysitter's house was broken into and our friend's car was stolen recently, so I was attributing her worries to those incidents, but it's just gotten worse and worse. She has even cried a couple of times at school, which she's never done. Now as I read all these testimonies, I have to think it is her Singulair, and feel awful that she's been so affected by this medicine and that I had no idea it was the cause. She recently started Flovent, and her stomach has been hurting, so we'll probably try stopping that too and see if that helps. Thank you all for posting. | F | 8 | | 11/29/2009 | 2 | allergies; dermagraphism; asthma | irritable; terrible moodswings; nightmares; zoned out; hyper & then crashes | the doctors kind of make you feel like you're imagining these drug reactions. they told me that singular was an amazing drug and did all kinds of amazing things for the kids when i took my daughter off it the first time. urged me to put her back on it if i wanted her better. | F | 4 | 1 years | 11/24/2009 | 1 | cough induced asthma | nightmares, headaches, acute anxiety, body aches, vision abnormalities, lack of focus, extreme fatigue, mood swings, etc... etc... | Our daughter was prescribed this poison by the ped. physician when she was 4 yrs old for cough induced asthma. For the 2 1/2 years she was taking singulair we had every test imaginable done on her to diagnose the complete deterioration of her mental and physical health. The physician never once recommended discontinuing this drug. We decided ourselves to take her off it and within 2 weeks things began to turnaround. It took a good year and a half for 95% of the symptoms to disappear. She is 11 now and there are still some lingering effects of this poison, probably due to the length of time she was on the drug. | F | 11 | 2.5 years | 11/21/2009 | 1 | allergies | anger issues, self pitty/ depression | My 5yr old son was taking this for one month. One week into taking singulair he started saying Mom you hate me dont you and also having problems in school like getting up right in the middle of the teacher teaching class and walking around. He has recently started hitting other kids in his class. This is all VERY unlike him. He has always been the sweet kid and very lovey and always everyones friend and taking up for the less fortunate. I have just taken him off the med and am anxiously waiting for him to get back to his sweet self. DONT GIVE THIS TO YOUR CHILDREN!! | M | 5 | 1 months | 11/17/2009 | 1 | asthma | Singulair has made my family LOSE YEARS OF OUR LIVES! My 10 yr old took this med since she was 6. I would occassionally take her off of the med when her asthma was controlled. She had been off for a couple of months and she started having an asthma attack so I put her back on singulair along with her other drugs she had already been on. It was during exam preparation and she was in LA LA Land! spaced out and unable to concentrate for weeks! I knew that she had trouble focusing, remembering, concentrating for years. I finally made arrangments to have her tested for ADD.Ironically I took her off the med and it was like someone turned the light back on!! Since then we have not gone back and I have a different kid!! no more bullying, no more aches and pains, no more concentration issues just a lovable, sweet, kind, child that I once knew years ago. All I can do now is pray and hope that this drug did not do any permanant damage to her precious organs!!! The government has taken those years | DO NOT GIVE THIS DRUG TO YOUR CHILD OR ANYONE!!!!!!!! THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF THEMSELVES FOR APPROVING THIS!!!! | F | 10 | 4 years | 11/16/2009 | 1 | Asthma/allergies | Bedwetting, hand numbness | Was prescribed for my 4 1/2 year old daughter for seasonal allergies when her Xyzal and Nasonex weren't doing enough for her and she started to have worsening nasal congestion, continuous post-nasal cough. She has NEVER had problems with bedwetting since she was completely pottied trained at 28 months. 2 times this week since starting Singulair she has wet the bed at night even though she was still alert enough to wake up last night one time to void. She also keeps intermittently saying "my hands feel tired" which she has never complained of in the past. I think this is probably the way a 4 year old complains of hand numbness. I haven't noticed any significant change to her breathing problems compared to last year prior to starting Singulair. She is getting better but no faster than last year when we only used the Xyzal, Nasonex, Orapred, Xopenex. Am taking her off Singulair today and will not use it again. Also, what about all of the crazy warnings: avoid people with colds and flu while taking this medication??? Is that possible right now??? | F | 4 | 5 days | 11/13/2009 | 1 | coughing asthma | Prescribed by pediatrician for our 7 year old daughter. Daily intense headaches which were dismissed as not related to the medication by our doctor - although they started a month or so after going on the medication.. Went as far as getting a CT scan because of the duration, frequency and intensity of the headaches. Additional side effects of occasional fever, dizziness and irritability. We are stopping the use of this drug immediately. The published side effects are alarming - should've done more research before taking the doctors advice on this one. No doubt we will be more careful in the future. | F | 7 | 3 months | 11/10/2009 | 1 | asthma/allergies | Horrible Mood Swings | Although Singular did help with my 8 year old's symptoms the side effects were horrible. She already was having some issues at school with attitude problems, this drug made them much worst. She was sent home almost every day with notes from school for taking back, being disrespectful towards others, stealing, lying, cheating. We had never had this many issues in a span of a week. We stopped giving her the medication and the behaviors have also stopped. | F | 8 | 14 days | 11/8/2009 |