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 |
| 2 | fall allergies | inconsolable crying spells, violent tantrums, extreme frustration | My 9 year old son was on it for 8 days and yesterday it was reported to me that he had a crying spell on the bus to school, tantrums and crying spells in school, then came home from school crying inconsolably and had several violent tantrums and was extremely irritable at home. He has autism, but never displayed this kind of behavior before. I thought he might be coming down with something so I took him to the doctor today and was informed to immediately stop giving him the Singulair. He was otherwise healthy. Since he was only on it 8 days, I'm hoping for him to have it out of his system in the next day or so and be back to what our 'normal' is. Thanks for the feedback on this website! | M | 9 | 8 days | 10/28/2008 | 1 | Asthma | Out of character violent tantrums and behavior, difficulty sleeping, strange statements, talk of nightmares, spacing out..... | My 3 year old was prescribed and started this two weeks ago. Gradually it was like she underwent a personality change. My previously loving, caring, funny little girl became quick to anger and lash out and became very needy. I have taken her off it since finding these reviews yesterday and can already see a difference in her behaviour. I was at the end of my reason with trying to cope with her prolongoned outbursts and tantrums, and was actually a little bit afraid that she would hurt her younger sibling. She slept better last night than she has for two weeks, and I feel like my little girl has come back to me again today. She's back to her old self, and any bad behaviour (not that there's been much) was easy to circumvent! I can't believe they give this to anyone, never mind kids. | F | 38 | 14 days | 10/27/2008 | 4 | hayfever and hives | None that I noticed; only used it for one month. | I am a Registered Nurse, and this worked great for both my hayfever and hives (autoimmune); I only used it for a short time. Recently I considered asking for it again in place of Atarax (generic name is hydroxizine and it's very cheap) until I read the reviews on Singulair. I have a history of anxiety disorder and am surprised it was prescribed to me in the first place. Also I have a 5 y/o neice who has severe food allergies and behavioral problems; she takes Singulair. I am going to propose she try a drug holiday for her to see if it is in fact attributed to Singulair. For those who cannot tolerate Singulair I suggest you discuss Atarax with your physician as a potential alternative. Though it does not act on leukotrienes, it is very effective with sedating properties that decrease within a month or less [for most people]. I have been on as much as 200mg Atarax per day, starting dose for adults is normally 25mg. | F | 33 | 1 months | 10/24/2008 | 3 | Allergies | Anxiety, nightmares, pnuemonia, cough, bleeding | This drug relieved my nasal rhinitis. Unfortuntately I started having nightmares and after awhile started having anxiety. The anxiety was exhausting. I also got pnuemonia for 1 month, which was the first time. Not sure if Singulair caused it. Other thing is when I would wash my face, sometimes my pores would bleed for no apparent reason. I also started to have a cough. I stopped taking the med and these things cleared up. Not sure if that is a coincidence or not. | M | 39 | 6 months | 10/24/2008 | 2 | Asthma | Daughter's agression. | I have taken Singulair for 3 years and have experienced no side effects (I am 36), however my four-year-old daughter started taking Singulair only two days ago and had a violent, prolonged episode that I have never seen before. She is also acting "spaced out" and seems to be hearing things that aren't there. I am stopping it immediately with her and have placed a call to her doctor. She has never had any mental health issues and is otherwise a healthy child. | F | 4 | 2 days | 10/23/2008 | 5 | athma and allergies | none | I have heard that some parents have taken their kids off due to negative side effects. Though these have been kids who have other medical/mental health issues along with asthma a allergies. The side effects appeared after several years of taking the medicaton and due to changes in life. | F | 46 | 3 years | 10/22/2008 | 2 | asthma | aggression, super quick trigger to physical aggression when frustrated, frustration intolerance, difficulty with transitions, anxiety | If you have questions about mental health side effects to singulair, go here: parentsforsafety.org/17601/index.html We have stopped singulair for our 5 year old who took it for two years, coincidentally the 2 years we have been struggling with these side effects. We stopped 4 days ago and are seeing many fewer of the problematic behaviors and frustrations and tantrums pass much quicker. He's becoming the reasonable boy we used to know! Keep your fingers crossed the improvement continues. I am worried about the asthma flare ups since singulair did seem to keep them under control but the mental health of my son tells me to find something different to take. | M | 5 | 2 years | 10/22/2008 | 2 | allergy/asthma | My daughter started complaining about feeling full all the time. She will experience bout of crying spell during the night and very hyper at times. I also noticed that she had some involuntary movements of her body while sleeping. | I'm glad to find this site and that I will not hesitate to discontinue the use of this drug. | F | 2.5 | 2 months | 10/18/2008 | 1 | allergy-triggered asthma | My 5-yr-old son has taken Singulair for 2 weeks and I noticed almost immediately his change in mood. He would cry inconsolably over seemingly minor things, especially in the evening. | This site is where my research on the drug has led me. How very frightening. We have discontinued the drug. Thank you to others for posting your experiences. | M | 5 | 2 weeks | 10/15/2008 | 2 | allergies | Extremely moody, easily angered, weight gain, nightmares | F | 40 | 6 months | 10/9/2008 | 3 | Asthma & Allergies | very tired , lack of interest in things that usually please me, mood swings , depression , indecisive | unfortunately it helped with my allergies--it also gave me back my sense of smell that had been gone for years but it's not worth the side affects---------I'm stopping today and will report back after a week or 2 with an update-I hope to back to my old self---keeping my sense of smell would be a bonus! | M | 55 | 2.5 years | 9/30/2008 | 1 | asthma | My 4 1/2 year old son started taking this terrible drug 1 year ago. My sweet little boy began to display explosive outbursts far worse than any typical tantrum. He became hyperactive, unable to focus, and impossible to redirect.When I tried to talk to him he would say "mommy sometimes i just can't tell my brain to stop". He started to become afraid to be alone, and had nightmares weekly. My little boy was aggressing on his baby sister on a daily basis and in one weekend was in time out 35 times for random acts of violence. We got him a puppy for his birthday and most days he is not permitted to play with him because he has been trying to hurt him. This week was the last straw- we were having a random conversation and he said that he wanted to kill a stranger. My heart sank. I monitor what cartoons he watches, we don't speak like that in my household. So I started to do my own research online and found that other parents experienced this very same thing. I gave him his last do | M | 4 | 1 years | 9/29/2008 | 5 | due to my astma attach | none whatsoever | excellent as far as i am concern and astma is controlled | F | 57 | 10 years | 9/26/2008 | 1 | allergies | serious depression, and suicidal thoughts | took it for three months and couldn't figure out why I was so unhappy. have a great life and wrote that I wished I were dead one night. completely out of character. stopped using because I ran out, heard of the warning and stopped all together. depression and thoughts were gone within a week. allergies also not so bad either. | F | 32 | 3 months | 9/20/2008 | 4 | asthma, allergies | extreme thirst (she is constantly drinking), loss of appetite, weight loss | My daughter started taking this after having 2 serios asthma attacks in a month. It, along with pulmicort, have helped to control the asthma. | F | 1 | 40 days | 9/19/2008 | 1 | allergies | My then four year old son took Singular three years ago after other allergy medications would not work. My husband and I quickly noticed a difference in out normally calm son. Pre-school teachers were concerned, as were we, considering he was normally a child who payed attention, obeyed rules, and stayed focus. Suddenly he could not sit still and was mean to his brother and friends. The doctors swore there was no way these were side effects from the drup, and that he must just be going through a stage. After reading more info online from sites like this we immediately took him off the medication. He returned to his normal selse within a few days! | Watch out parents!!! | M | 4 | 1 months | 9/14/2008 | 2 | For allergy induced asthma | My 8yo son has been on and off Singulair for 3 years. The usual amount of time is 3 months and he tolerated well. This time he has been on it for 6 months and at hte 5month mark something started happeneing to him: vivid nightmares, obsessions, horrible thoughts (about death), thinking about hitting others, anxiety and crying and the list goes on. I am so glad i found this site. I took him off 4 days ago....slight decrease in symptoms. how long until he gets back to his old self? | Does anyone know a time frame for this horrible drug to get out of a child's system? It breaks my heart to have my son suffer like this.... | F | 36 | 6 months | 9/12/2008 | 1 | Allergies/Asthma | My son has been taking Singulair granules for approximately 2 weeks now. Doctor stated that if the combination of medicines prescribed (Singulair, Nasonex, and Cefdinir ) did not significantly improve his symptoms within 2-3 weeks, our next option would be to remove the adenoids. While the medicines seemed to "miraculously" cure the eternally runny nose and cough (in just 2 days!) and grant my son his first sound night of sleep in months, the associated side effects have been so scary that we have not given him the medicine in the last two days. During the first week (after about 2 days on the medicines), he would cry that he wanted to "sleep in Mama's bed" and we sometimes gave in and allowed him to do so, as a result of his unconsolable crying.In the last week (days 7-14 of the medication) we have seen him go from a sweet, independent little boy to an aggressive, frightened, uncontrollable child. He has NEVER in his life had problems/fears associated with slee | We follow the same bedtime routine each night; medicine, bath, diaper, singing/praying while rocking in his room, and then placing him in his bed. The moment he feels my body shift to stand up and place him in his crib he begins to tense up his whole body and scream in a manner which is simply almost un-human. He is unable to speak between screams. It takes up to an hour to calm him and even after bringing him into our bed his sleep is restless. He never used to want to be cuddled and cradled while sleeping in our bed. Now, he seems to NEED to hold my face or hand the entire night. If I shift in even the slightest manner while lying there, he panics and wakes up SCREAMING! I tried to let him "cry it out" a few nights to our utter dismay. He actually seemed to have such a breakdown on those nights that he was completely inconsolable and nobody in our household could sleep those nights. The few times I have been able to let him "cry it out" in a somewhat accep | F | 1.8 | 12 days | 9/11/2008 | 1 | chronic congestion; cough | After my daughter had taken the drug for about 2 months, she began experienced frequent daytime urination and subsequently bedwetting. Neither the allergist or pediatrician attributed this to the singulair, and we were about to be referred to a specialist for investigation of spastic bladder. I found other instances of bedwetting on this website, and stopped the singulair. About a week later, the bedwetting subsided and has not returned. | Other side affects appeared to be tendancy to tantrums, increased appetite and weight gain. But we would not have attributed these to the singulair if the bedwetting had not prompted us to investigate further. | F | 5 | 2 months | 9/7/2008 | 1 | chronic rhinitis | paranoias, hallucinations, suicidal thoughts and phonism. very terrible side effects. i could not control myself. | singulair was very effective for alleviating the rhinitis symtoms, but i was also hospitalized 7 days for 'initiative psychosis symtoms'. luckily, i remember singulair is somewhat related to mood and behavior change. i stopped taking singulair for 5 days and all horrible side effects were gone. i am a sane myself. | M | 47 | 3 years | 8/27/2008 |