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 |
| 5 | for severe asthma | None that I know of.Am tired during the day but not sure if that is due to Singulair. Will taking it at night decrease its effectiveness during the day? | I take Pulmicort every morning but was using Maxair, the rescue inhaler, as often as 12 times EVERY DAY and sometimes more often. Since taking Singulair for the past few years, I use the rescue inhaler maybe once a month, often less! Singulair has greatly improved my life. | F | 64 | 4 years | 3/13/2006 | 2 | Croup/asthma-type cough | Turned sweet, laid-back child (3 yrs) into a terror. Our son was full of anger, lashed out constantly and cried like he did when he was a baby. At night, he talked in his sleep and was grinding his teeth so loud we could hear it in our room. | PARENTS BEWARE OF BEHAVIOR CHANGES! | M | 3 | 2 days | 3/12/2006 | 4 | asthma | I've been on/off Singulair for about 5 years now. I feel best when I'm on it but the nightmares were overwhelming and truly frightening after a while. BUT my doctor had me start taking the Singulair in the morning instead of nightime and that worked! The nightmares went away and it's great. I do still get them sometimes when I'm very stressed out but they're minor, not like the big ones I used to get when I took it at night. Try mornings! It works! | F | 45 | 5 years | 2/27/2006 | 1 | For asthma during cold/flu season | My son took this for 4 months, until we realized our son had become someone he and I both didn't know. He was moody, angry, had trouble concentrating (which had NEVER been a problem before), felt sad A LOT and didn't know why, had trouble sleeping (had never been a problem before, even as a newborn), nightmares every night...overall very unhappy and sad about being unhappy because he didn't know why he felt the way he did. Cannot believe I didn't figure it out sooner. He stopped taking it over 2 weeks ago....and I am happy to report he is sleeping like a baby, laughing again and being more positive about everything in general! I have my son back! | It's unfortunate that more doctors do not mention the possibility of these kinds of negative side effects. They don't really know how a medication might effect our children. Since no one, including myself, is going to allow drug testing on our children, Rx companies only know side effects for adults! | M | 8 | 4 months | 2/24/2006 | 1 | seasonal allerigies/asthma | my son's behavior changed dramatically after 5 days on this drug. he became aggressive, crazy, ultra-sensitive. i took him off after finding this web site. thank you all!! he is back to normal after three days off and using nebulizer as before. | this drug contains aspartame, something my pediatrician did not tell me. aspartame gives me headaches and makes me "foggy". i stopped drinking diet coke years ago because of the effects. | M | 4 | 5 days | 2/24/2006 | 1 | asthma | Nightmares | Seemed to really help my asthma but the nightmares were too vivid. | M | 31 | 3 days | 2/21/2006 | 2 | asthma and allergies | very crippling migraine, extreme lethargy | but did not need my inhaler once the whole week (usually 12-16 times a day). But will probably stop taking them due to migraines and fatigue. | M | 45 | 7 days | 2/18/2006 | 1 | for asthmas related to allergies | we gave this drug to my seven year old son and, like all the other, found it to be a miracle cure for asthma and allegies. However, like many of the others that wrote, he became angry, irrational and mean -- a complete and scary personality change. He also had nose bleeds and leg aches, which I had dismissed entirely and now believe to be related to the drug. Thank God I found this site and others like it to help me see the real problem. After just a few days off the drug, he is back to his old, sweet self. | This drug should be exposed and banned-- it absolutely should not be administered to children without proper explanation of possible side effects. The drug company web-site does not mention anything. | M | 7 | 21 days | 2/18/2006 | 1 | sports induced asthma | severe headached, mood swings, just not her self, more recently what we know now a petit mal seizure and on sunday a ride to the hospital in an ambulance after we found her in convulsions and foaming at the mouth!!!!!! | my 10 year old daughter has not been the same since she started taking singulair just 2 months ago, if it would not have been for the sites we may have never linked it. we have taken her off the medicine of course and are waiting for mri, eeg, ekg testing. please pray for us.!!!! | F | 10 | 2 months | 2/17/2006 | 5 | asthma | none | My asthma is now fairly well controlled without any noticeable side effects. | F | 43 | 4 years | 2/16/2006 | 5 | | 2/12/2006 | 4 | Possible asthma; allergies | Very hard to focus; weight gain; numbness and "pins & needles" in arm and hand (very bad; tired during day | I have been taking about 6 months and have thought this was a great medication. I had been experiencing frequent episodes of shortness of breath and my chest and airways tightening so that I thought I was having heart attacks. After about a week, these feelings went away and for the first time in years I felt like I could actually breathe clearly through my nose and no longer gasping for air. Since taking I have put on approx. 15 lbs that I can not seem to lose since I crave food ALL the time!! After reading a lot of the comments on this site, I realize that I also have had a difficult time focusing and completing projects (I do have adult ADD, but take meds for it. Further, I have had incredible pain down my arm and in my hand. The pain gets so severe that I can not use my computer which I need for work. I have recently begun treating for this pain and now am wondering if the Singulair is the culprit. I am going to slowly reduce my dose and get off the Singulair to see if the a | F | 43 | 6 months | 2/2/2006 | 4 | Asthma and chronic rhinitis | Flushed face, nightmares, lactose intolerance, and increased sensitivity to acidic foods. | It worked very well in treating my asthma, allergies, and sinus symptoms. Unfortunately I couldn't deal with the digestive issues it caused and discontinued the medication. I never determined if the flushed face and nightmares were directly caused by Singulair. | F | 31 | 30 days | 1/31/2006 | 2 | allergies; rhinitis | 4 year old son had a dramatic personality change soon after taking 5mg chewable tablet each day. Became physically aggressive and irritable. He said he felt like "a bad guy" while on the medication. | Granted his allergies improved I took him off the medication because he was an angry little boy and previously he had been very happy go lucky. (His original personality was restored within 3 days of discontinuation of Singulair.) | M | 4 | 2 weeks | 1/27/2006 | 1 | Astma | My 5 year old went from a normal child to Mr. Hyde. Destroyed his classroom in violant episode. Attacked his teachers | The drug did wonders for his asthma however over the course of 3 months he changed from normal to a monster. He was always a bit agressive but this took that agression and amplified it. Based on what I have read so far I am taking him off the drug and am hoping I get my son back. | M | 5 | 90 days | 1/26/2006 | 1 | Asthma | Son is depressed, suicidal, angry, has body tics, irritable, hypersensitive, has nightmares, he is bouncing off the wall | Please help guide me. My Son is was on Adviar 250/50, but I am finding the same problems posted for both Singulair and Advair. We thought he was losing his mind until I found these postings.Who can help? He can't function at school, he is disruptive. he is so moody. Has the drug caused permanent mental damage? He used to be such a good boy and so kind. At 11 he now talks of suicide. Doctors that I talked to after reading other postings don't seem to believe the link. The drug company has never studied a 250/50 dosage effect on children. We stopped the drug last night and he is on 24 hour watch. Will I get my Son Back, we are devastated. If he would have been successful in suicide the other day, I would have never put the link to this drug. How many others are out there not knowing that the drug causing these problems. I beg anyone to help guide us for help? | M | 11 | 4 months | 1/26/2006 | 2 | asthmatic coughing at night | Hyperactivity, night-time waking, excitability | After 24 hours my son was showing clear signs of excitability which became progressively worse until on the 3rd night he was unable to sleep for most of the night and was so overexcitable we couldn't let him attend preschool | M | 3 | 3 days | 1/20/2006 | 1 | Reactive Airway Disease | My son was having daytime hallucinations (hearing and visualizing monsters trying to get him), night terrors, irritability. Had same thing experienced by friends' children who said their kids were also doing the same things. BAD DRUG FOR CHILDREN!!!!! Stopped having these side effect after I discontinued singulair. | I don't think they researched this drug correctly | M | 3 | 3 months | 1/8/2006 | 1 | daughter 11 yrs. --asthma/allergies | Moodiness, irritability, fatigue, depression, headache, maybe joint pain | My daughter, aged 11, took this for allergies and asthma. It worked well in controlling her symptoms. She was a very happy, laid back kid before this but just told me last week that she has been depressed for two years. Recently it has been tough to get her up and going to school where she is an excellent student. Having researched this on sites like this I now see that the drug affected her mood and gave her other symptoms that we explained away as other causes. The symptoms have grown progressively worse over time. I've taken her off Singulair--2 days now--and have begun to see a difference in her mood. Will report back as time goes by. This drug needs to be seriously monitored in children and maybe even banned. I thank God and all the posters here for talking about their experiences as I was considering sending her to a psychologist and was getting to my wits' end. Other sites too show MANY parents noticing the same symptoms. Effectiveness of this drug is not worth the serious side | F | 11 | 2 years | 12/29/2005 | 1 | asthma/allergies | constipation and abdominal pain | After maybe a week or so taking it, I became suddenly and severly constipated, and was doubled over with abdominal pain, then vomited. Two days later the abdominal pain came back just as bad, but without the vomiting. It came in waves, plus still severe constipation. It was so bad I ended up in the ER. I had no idea why I was so constipated and in such pain. It didn't occur to me for a few days that it could be related to Singulair. When it did, I stopped taking it to see if there was a link, and sure enough, I returned to normal. Has anyone else had these symptoms? | F | 50 | 7 days | 12/28/2005 |