SINGULAIR Reviews (MONTELUKAST SODIUM)Average Rating: 2.1 (1370 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare SINGULAIR with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR SINGULAIR | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | Asthma/allergies | Moody, depressed, bad memorie, negative attitude, impatient | I works great for astham and allergies but I destroyed my live with the side effects. No one would believe me, blood was fine so nothings wrong......right?? I stopped 4 weeks ago and feeling so much better! (a have more troubles keeping my asthma under control but together with my doctor we are looking at that) | F | 42 | 14 years 10 1X day | 4/7/2015 | 2 | for year round allergies | Heart pounding, headaches,angry,aggitated,sad, bad stomach aches lower abdominal pain and diarrhea all thru the day | Helped a little with runny nose and itchy eyes but not worth the heart pouding or diarrhea | F | 25 | 3 months 10 | 3/7/2015 | 1 | Asthma/allergies | We have just hit the two month mark with montelukast (gen for singulair) and my independent, spirited, loving daughter has changed drastically. I don't recognize her anymore. She screams at me all day, she will not listen at all, she has been throwing violent tantrums - one of which resulted in her falling down and hitting her head. I have bruises on my arms from her kicking and punching me. She has scratched herself all over her arms, legs and chest and has been complaining about stomach pain and itchy skin. She has always been strong willed but never violent and always loving. These symptoms just surfaced about a week and a half ago. My pediatrician told me if she was going to have a reaction to the medication, it would occur within the first few days of her taking it. I thought she would be fine on it because she didn't have any adverse reactions for the first 6 to 7 weeks. The medication has helped her asthma tremendously but I am taking her off of it because it has altered her personality severely. Singular should not be prescribed to children. I am beside myself with worry and cannot wait until it is out of her system. | F | 5 | 2 months 5 mg | 3/6/2015 | 3 | I have severe asthma | My feet were swollen have been off of it for 3 days still swollen. Hives all over my feet. | F | 51 | 5 days 1X day | 2/27/2015 | 1 | asthma | My daughter took montelukast from the age of 3yrs for poorly controlled asthma symptoms. Over a period of time, we noticed her usual cheerful personality changed and she became more subdued. She began complaining of bad headaches,to the extent she couldn't bend down. GP said they were stress related,which I questioned as I couldn't believe a 6yr old child could be suffering from stress. I read up on her medications and decided upon myself to stop montelukast, much to the anger of her asthma consultant. The headaches ceased and she became more like her old self. Shortly after this time, we noticed that she was pulling her eyelashes/eyebrows out(in secret) and couldn't explain why she was doing this. She was refered to CAAMHS and diagnosed with severe anxiety issues, but continues to pull her hair out to this day-she is now 9yrs old. I felt guilty that I stopped her asthma medication- which is still poorly controlled-assuming that the GP's initial diagnosis of stress headaches was probably correct. Last week, her consultant re-prescribed montelukast & the headaches have started again. This has now lead me to think that I was right after all about the headaches and after reading comments on this website that possibly my 9 year old daughter's 'mental health' issues stem from the prolonged use of montelukast during her early years. | See above | F | 3 | 3 years 5mg | 2/26/2015 | 1 | Mite allergy | Since 2009 I have been using montelucast sodium and aerius for asthma and allergies. I was used to use once air but switched to singulair since than I am feeling unhappy, dizzy, absent minded, anxious. I want to cry with no reason. I am always tired and cant wait to go home for sleeping. My concentration is so low during the day. | I wont use singulair again | F | 30 | 2 months 10mg | 2/17/2015 | 5 | asthma | at first, i had strange dreams, but not nightmares. i have not noticed any other side effects except good ones..this helped remarkably with stuffy nose, runny nose etc. It cured my sudafed addition. and it worked great for my asthma. it works much better than any inhalor i ever tried. | i have had hip bursitis problems the past year. no idea if related to singular ..thats why i came out to this website. i always take mine in the morning. instructions said to take at night, but i switched due to the vivid dreams, no issues once i swithed to taking it in the day... | F | 53 | 2 years 1X day | 2/16/2015 | 1 | allergy | my daughter has seasonal allergies in the spring and fall. She has been on and off singulair and zyrtec since she was little. for years we experienced aggressive behavior depression anxiety suicidal thoughts night terrors and urine problems.we had seen several doctors for second opinions was in counseling and she was on anxiety medicine . In the spring of 2014 when I refilled her singulair prescription a new warning label came out with all of the issues I listed above. the FDA has had so many complaints that they mandated the drug company to list of side effects. my daughter will not take any allergy medications do to her adverse reaction. she has been off for over a year now and she is the most wonderful 11-year-old any mother could ask for. I encourage you to Make a complain to be FDA regarding this medication. The drug is advertised for children with asthma but it is harder on their system to tolerate it. My heart ackes for the other families going through this. do your research and help make the side effects of these drugs public knowledge. | F | 11 | 1 years | 2/9/2015 | 2 | Nasal congestsion | I have a lot of nasal congestion that is the result of inhalers I use for my COPD. Generic Singulair was prescribed to help the sinus congestion. It did improve the sinus congestion a lot and it also helped my breathing to some extent. But I started having heart palpitations as soon as I started taking it, was always tired and sleepy (was sleeping as much as 12 hours a night), had hip pain, lower back pain, pain and tightness in my thigh muscles, and after three days I started getting very irritable. I decided to stop taking it after three days because the side effects outweighed the benefits. | M | 73 | 3 days 10 1X day | 2/8/2015 | 1 | cold enduced asthma | My son would cry and say everyone hated him and he wanted to die. He had singulair befor, but only at a week at a time. So his doctor thought it was not the singulair. This was the 1st time I thought, I shoud do what my doc says and give it to him everyday, so i actuall kept giving my son the meds for another month! After we stopped the singulair and it got out of his system he went back to being his normal self. | 6 | 2 months 5mg | 2/4/2015 | 5 | Asthma maintenance | I don't recall any side effects. I had been on it for several years about 14, 15 years ago. But, when I started at another practice (medical school), Singulair was replaced by one of those inhaled cortisone inhalers. They helped, some, but I thought the dr would just supplement the Singulair to get me through the difficult fall season. Otherwise, it had worked just fine. The inhalers worked for awhile, then quit helping. I've had about four or five of them. I've asked for the Singulair back each time one quilt helping, but the doctors all said these inhalers were soooo much better, let's try another one. Never having lasting effects, and very expensive, especially when starting a new fiscal year with insurance deductibles, I asked the doctor again, for the Singulair. "Why, when you keep saying it doesn't work" I reminded them that it was the cortisone inhalers that didn't help after a few months, they were too expensive, and Singulair DID work, even though I might need a boost in the fall season. Singulair is what works best for me. I have quit all of those cortisone inhalers doctors are so determined to keep me on. I use the ProAir inhaler maybe 3 times a month, or the nebulizer when I get a cold. I had to practically beg to get the Singulair back last fall from yet another practice, then I had to leave since they mismanaged my thyroid treatment. I'm not going to let the current practice take the Singulair tablets away. It works, I have no side effects, | Doctors need to realize that a medicine DOES NOT need to be expensive to work well. I get SOOO frustrated that they think we want expensive inhalers (that then quit working after awhile, and/or give us other health problems. Then, doctors (and nurses) deny that the inhalers are at fault. "It can't be the inhaler! Are you using it correctly? I never heard of that effect with this medicine before! They just list those to scare people! You sound on the edge of paranoia!" Seriously??? I smell kickbacks. | F | 58 | 3 months 10 | 1/28/2015 | 1 | itching | Constipation, Lower Abdominal Pain, Increased Itching | F | 25 | 2 days 5 1X day | 1/15/2015 | 5 | Asthma | After using singular for about 4 months I started not being able to fall asleep as easily. It took 2 hours to go to sleep sometimes. After about 5 months I became very paranoid, like someone was in my house. I also started experiencing night terrors. | Singular worked great for my asthma. The reason I stopped was because of the mental side effects. | F | 20 | 6 months | 12/26/2014 | 5 | Asthma | No side effects at all on Singulair. Generics cause wheezing and allergies | This drug has changed my life. Half an hour after taking the first tablet, I actually felt my lungs opening up, and for the first time in as long as I can remember, I don't think about my breathing. I can laugh, run, climb stairs, I've dropped my use of inhalers by half, and rarely need ventolin. The difference has been noticed by all my friends and colleagues. On the rare occasions I miss a tablet, I am wheezing within a few hours. Amazing, life changing drug. And although I didn't take it for allergic rhinitis/sinusitis, it has cleared that up too, and I have a sense of smell for the first time in eleven years. | F | 51 | 10mg 1X day | 12/16/2014 | 4 | Asthma / sinus issues | Night terrors, insomnia, nightmares/intense dreams. | My doctor finally pinpointed my daily subtle breathing related issues to my sinuses rather thang mild asthma. Started motelukast over a year and a half ago now and at first I had terrible nightmares or like semi-awake terrors like someone was in the room and I'd abruptly sit up in a panic. They subsided and only come back if I forget to take my tablet for a few days. Now I do dream a lot more though and the dreams are full on. Haven't noticed any other side effects. I can put up with the sleep disruption/ intense dreams as I can now exercise freely and talk without swallowing all the time! I just make sure i tAke the tablet right before i go to sleep and not 1/2 hour or an hour before bed! Not sure what's going to happen when I come off it when we decide to have children. | F | 30 | 1 years 10mg | 12/1/2014 | 4 | asthma | After first dose of generic by Torrent, I developed hives. Took me several days to figure out it was the generic singulair. Stopped it and hives have gotten better. Otherwise, no problems with any of the other generics I have gotten in the past. Started a Medrol dose pack to help relieve the residual itching from hives and doing much, much better. No more scalding hot showers in the middle of the night for me. | F | 62 | 8 years 10 1X day | 11/12/2014 | 1 | Asthma | Sudden hyperactivity, insomnia all night, racing and erratic heartbeat, feeling very lightheaded and strange, bitter taste in the mouth. | Quite a scary experience and not much improvement in mucus reduction as far as asthma was concerned. I won't use this drug again! | F | 46 | 3 days 10 MG 1X day | 11/12/2014 | 1 | Allergies | Normally a sound sleeper, but nightmares, achy muscles and very poor sleep after starting singular. Heart feels like it is racing, and feel very anxious which is concerning. I will not be taking this medicine again. | Far too many side effects to be used as an allergy treatment. | F | 47 | 2 days 10 MG | 11/10/2014 | 5 | Breathing problems | Temper being shorter than normal | The drug works really well. | M | 48 | 5 months 10 mg | 11/8/2014 | 5 | Asthma | Interrupted sleep & insomnia at the beginning, but I managed by taking the dose at 7-8 PM instead of right before going to bed as prescribed. Possibly heightened senses (smell & hearing) but this could also be due to a healthier diet. Interestingly I feel a lot more patient with people, more positive, and less anxious than before starting Singulair (not sure if it's the diet or Singulair but I won't complain!). | It works so well for asthma, I don't need to constantly worry about it anymore. I still need to use my inhaler before exercising but otherwise I rarely need to use it, I only need it sometimes for minor symptoms after dusting & cleaning the house. I'm very satisfied with it for now, although I'm a bit scared to develop side effects long term. | F | 28 | 7 weeks 10mg | 11/4/2014 |