3 year old symptoms and conditions

I am sitting here in tears reading about the side effects others have had on Lisinopril. I am a 43 yr. old woman who started taking it exactly 1 year ago and about 3 months ago I started coughing at night and feeling like my throat was closing or clogged with mucous. It has just gotten worse and worse and after 2 rounds of antibiotics and various other meds....it's still worse. About a month ago I started having sore ankles out of nowhere. I have been walking like an elderly person as my ankles are so stiff and painful. Until now it had never occurred to me that it could be related to the lisinopril Yesterday my Dr. finally said that the cough is probably the Lisinopril and took me off of it. I didn't believe that this could be true so I decided to look online and these other experiences are what I found. I am just praying that it will go away......I haven't had a solid nights sleep in so long and even my dog won't sleep in my room anymore because my cough keeps waking him up. My 3 year old wakes up every time I have a coughing fit and it is terribly inconvenient during the day too. ....

Hi, I am a mother of 2, and not quite 23 years old and got the Mirena inserted at my 6 week check up after having my second. I read all the literature that the Dr. gave me and I was sure that Mirena was the right thing for me (no where in the brochures did I read anything about the symptoms Ive read about here or anywhere else on the internet). I started having incredibly horrible mood swings, bloating, fatigue, nausea (sooo bad, every day) back pain, neck pain, no sex drive (!!!), depressed, lazy, headaches (to the point where I thought my head was going to explode), constantly hungry, acne, smelled maple syrup constantly, complaining all the time about everything, weight gain (only 7 lbs but I just had a baby, I need to lose weight, and I'm nursing),chest pain, and some other symptoms but the most important one is the stomach pain i was having. The pain in my stomach felt like a knife, and I kept having pain in my right side. So after a few days of this pain I went to the dr. he ordered an ultrasound of my abdomen and I am scheduled to get that done Wednesday. My doctor thinks that I may have gallbladder disease or something else seriously wrong with me that we suspect is induced by the Mirena. Keep in mind that I've had this thing in me for about 4 months!!! So after my doctors appointment I typed into google "side effects from Mirena" and Omg, I wish that I had done that before I got the thing inserted, those brochures about the Mirena make it seem like a Godsend and I am all for a lawsuit due to the problems I am having and the depression Ive felt. My 3 year old has suffered from my mood swings, every time id feel it coming I had to make her go to her room :( that poor girl deserves to have a mother that is not so depressed and ill that she can actually play, and both of them deserve that really, and im doing the best I can.... anyways I removed it myself yesterday, i had a hard time finding it but I took it out and I feel as if a huge burden has been lifted, EXCEPT I have been cramping very bad, spotting and incredibly sick, i also read about this thing called "the mirena crash" no matter how long you've had it in, if the hormones were in your system then you are effected and can feel very ill from it (and it can happen to women who had no problems while on it at all, even after 5 yrs). Im hoping that I have nothing wrong at my doctors appt on Wednesday when I get the ultrasound, and it may just be a cyst, turns out that is a side effect of mirena as well, that and bleeding the first several months (oh yeah, I did for about 2 months maybe 10 weeks altogether) Im also hoping that my daughter whom I am nursing is not sick as well :/

oh and for anybody out there thinking that the only women gaining weight are fat to begin with, well I am usually 105 lbs, after my baby I weighed 145, lost some weight, went down to 130ish gained it all back then some, losing weight is easy for me because I diet and exercise like I should, now I am doing all that and nursing a child.... and hello weight, when it really should be goodbye... well goodbye mirena I WONT miss you!!!!

Has anyone noticed incontinence as a side effect in toddlers? My 3 year old has been potty trained for quite some time now but today he has wet himself 4 times. He's not had any accidents in months. This is also his third day on Omnicef. I'm hesitant to put a pull up on him because I don't want to set him back in his potty training.

My 3 year old has been on Singulair off and on since he was 1. This last time he started in November of 2008 and began getting agitated, extremely moody, and having fits of anger by Christmas. I thought it was a phase until about 2 weeks ago when my son's doctor told me he thought it sounded like side effects of the Singulair. I took my son off the Singulair and it has been absolute anger fits every time he gets upset or does not get his way. These anger fits have lasted anywhere from 30 minutes to 3 hours (including one that was an hour and half at the doctor's office). The fits consist of screaming at the top of his lungs, biting, kicking, hitting, and yelling rude and crude statements. Once they start he does not know how to get out of the fit. Now that he is off Singulair, I just want to know how long the withdraws will last....Any suggestions of help with the fits or details on how long the withdraw will last would be appreciated.

I have had two sons on Singular. My three-year old had drastic behavioral changes about a month after starting to take Singulair. He suddenly had severe separation anxiety, was crying and whining all the time, did not want to be alone at all. Normally he is very happy go lucky and we did not see his bright cheerful smile for weeks. I took him to his pediatric doctor and described the behavior and she immediately said to take him off the Singulair. After two weeks, he was back to his normal, happy self. My older son is 5 and has been on Singulair for over a year. I consulted with his allergist right away after my 3-year-old was having trouble. I wanted to take him off the Singulair and he advised against it, because my 5 year old has more serious asthma and allergies. When he first started he had nightmares, and when I mentioned it to a friend whose son is also on Singulair, she said, oh, give it to him in the morning instead of night and that will help with the nightmares. That did help. Yesterday, I decided to take him off of it. It seems like he's always coughing and congested, he complains often of growing pains in his legs that will make him scream and cry and beg for medicine to make the pain go away. He becomes emotionally uncontrollable - i.e. he will have crying jags and when I try to console him or ask him to stop crying he'll say he can't help it and he'll say, "You don't understand, I can't control it." He has also complained of headaches and I wondered how would a 5-year-old even know what a headache is? I feel very naive and am thankful for sites like this because you will not always get this information from your health care providers and also the drug companies. If you are like me, and you've ended up in the emergency room and also calling 911 because your child is having and asthma attack, you be be so afraid you'll give your kids whatever the doctor prescribes and you'll look at it as the lesser of two evils - do you want to be in the emergency room or can you live with the side effects. It has taken me a while to get smart about this. There has to be a better solution out there.

Hi everyone...I have had Mirena out for almost 2 weeks now and I am back to my normal self already!!! I haven't lost any weight yet but I know that will come off in time. I, too, am on YAZ and love it so far. I have my phone set to calendar so I remember to take the pill every day or else I will definitely forget.

The best part about being back to my normal self is that I am enjoying my children again. I don't treat them like slaves, yell/scream at them for no reason, or want to be away from them. There has been a remarkable difference in them as well. They are not so whiney and they have more fun with each other. A benefit to that is that my 6 year old who asked me a few months ago if there were any extra chores she could around the house is cuddling with me on a daily basis. She wouldn't do that at all before. She is doing better in school too. My 3 year old is listening better too. I love my girls!!!

So, I am more than happy that I got my Mirena out and equaly grateful that my doctor (who happens to be a man and a new doctor) didn't try to convince me to keep it in.

New life and new me, here I come.

OMG! I just cannot believe it! My almost 3 year old has been on Singulair since the fall and was on it last year as well and she has been suffering with chronic otitis media, she was diagnosed with idiopathic hives, she has developed a patch of eczema on her leg, c/o stomach discomfort -- Needless to say I have discontinued this med. I am really upset over this! She has an ear recheck in 2 weeks because we are at the point where we are considering put tubes in her ears. I just cannot believe this!

Gigi

I found this website by mistake and OMG i think it was mean't for me to find this. I have a 7 year old who has been taking SINGULAIR for 2 years. I never pin-pointed his behavior to his medicines(Singulair,Zyrtec,Nasonex). I feel terrible if this is why he has been acting out the last couple of years.He has been disruptive,aggresive,doesn't follow directions,complains of stomache aches,wets the bed,says he doesnt feel good. He has trouble sitting still and blurts out answers in school.We trusted our PED and assumed he would give us any info on bad side affects. I wished I would have checked into the a long time ago I feel terrible if this is what has been causing all this negativity.He also has "bad dreams" and has circles under his eyes that his allergist always said was "allergic shiners". I stopped giving him SINGULAIR a week ago but I havent noticed any big changes.Could anyone tell me how long it takes for this medicine to get out of a 7 year olds body? Thanks a concerned mother....

I just wanted to thank all of you for your comments. I have been battling with myself for the past year feeling quilty for not putting my child on singulair, when my son's pediatrician advised me rudely that I should. I was told that he was asthmatic due to his allergies and that he needed this medication. I decided to no longer see that pediatrician. I then took him to an Ear Nose and Throat specialest who told me he was not asthmatic and that he did not need to be put on a daily medication for the rest of his life for a condition he gets 6 times a year. This appt was over a year ago. Connor my son has now been sent home from his new daycare for congestion and cough that he gets from his allergies. I was feeling guilty and set up another appt with the ENT Dr, just so he could make sure I am not endangering my child and so the new daycare will let me bring him back. I was thinking am I a bad parent for not putting him on this medication. The director of the daycare exclaimed proudly that her child had great help with Singulair. I thought maybe I will ask for it today from the ENT DR. Now after reading these responses I will not feel guilty nor will I think twice about putting him on this medication. He is in the prime learning stage of his life. Neurology studies have shown children learn more and easier between the ages of 2-5. The better baby institute has many articles on this. Why in the prime years of learning would I put my 3 year old on a medication that will make him grogy, tired and uninterested in activites. I also know once a child's body gets used to taking this medication that the body's natural ability to fight allergies is very diminihed and will require the medication for the rest of his life. Long term effects of Singulair are not available but I would be willing to bet it is definately not healthy on the liver our body's detoxifying organ.

My 3-year old daughter has had recurrent bronchitis and allergies for over a year now. She's been on antibiotics constantly, and we're looking at having her tonsils removed. Her ped suggested that maybe she has asthma and her infections are secondary to that, so maybe try Singulair. We filled the prescription, but I didn't give it to her based on what I read here.

During the next few months, we repeated bronchial infections and antibiotics. Finally we had to try prophylatic antibiotics. She got all gunky and wheezy again...but no fever so at least no infection but she was obviously wheezing and congested, so we decided it probably was asthma and decided to try Singulair (this was earlier this week). Not only has she recovered from her latest congestion problem quickly, her behavior has actually improved (?) as in only 1 tantrum in the last two days, her appetite is way up, and she actually slept through the night last night (first time in 3 years). I think she feels so much better, and it has so far been wonderful for her.

I have been on Yasmin for 6 years (16-22 years old) except for about 15 months when I was pregnant and nursing. I did not get pregnant while taking the pill (and my son is a beautiful perfectly healthy 3 year old). I have been extremely happy with the pill. I had some discomfort and a very heavy period my first month, but that is why you have to take a pill for 3 months to find out how it will really work for you. It has helped with my acne, I have not gained weight, my anxiety is what it was before, and my headaches are what they were before.

Different pills will work for different women. The only way to know which will work for you is to give it a real chance = 3 months; especially if this is your first time taking hormones! As we all know all medications have side effects. We also have to remember that we are choosing to risk that the side effects will not outweigh our reason for wanting the medicine in the first place... to NOT get pregnant! Which is a huge thing for any of you who don't have kids. All I'm saying is don't let it make you miserable, but give a pill a chance. And if you gain a little weight for example would exercising a little kill you?

Been on it for 3 months... Nothing but problems. I even had to go as far as getting an EKG done, and a chest X-ray, because all my symptoms were also that of heart failure.... Can you imagine how scary that was for me?? Here I am a 23 year old married mother of a 3 year old boy and 2 month old girl, and I am thinking I won't be around to watch them start their own families.... I hate Trivora!!! Be cautious everyone!!!

Woke up at 4:30 on Tuesday morning... can't remember if I woke up before or after my cat was coughing and puking up a large piece of folded up packing tape.. But then I noticed my right side of my chest hurt when I tried to take a deep breath. It's in my lower right chest, behind my ribs, and lower than my right breast. I just took my nuva ring out a at 4:45, and maybe it's just a placebo effect, but my chest felt a little better right away.

I put the nuva ring in on Thursday, June 28th, and have been so sleepy since that first night that I've felt compelled to take a nap every day, whether I wanted to or not.

Woke up Sunday night with an itchy eye, which I rubbed, then fell right back asleep. A couple of hours later Hannah (my 3 year old) woke me up because she'd peed in her bed, and after cleaning her and her bed up and getting her back to sleep, I went to the bathroom to pee, and when I looked in the mirror, my left eye was extremely swollen. It watered a lot, and the eyeball looked slightly red, but it didn't itch. I read about swollen eyes online and fell back asleep with my laptop on my lap at about 5:30 am. On Monday my eye improved over the course of the day and now it is about 95% back to normal.

On Saturday Hannah and I stayed over at our friends' house on the beach, and I woke up around 5:30 AM and noticed that: A.) The birds outside were chirping and making a ton of noise, and B.) On both of my hands, my pinky and ring fingers felt like they'd fallen asleep. I wondered if I slept on them in a funny way, and wiggled them and kept changing positions for about half an hour before they regained good circulation and I fell asleep again.

I don't remember if I woke up Friday night or had any health issues on Friday.

On Thursday, the day I put in the Nuva Ring, I had a terrible headache that was barely managed with advil and acetominophen. I had a headache the day before that was less severe, so I assumed the two were related. That night I fell asleep sort of involuntarily at about 10:30 pm, which is very early for me.

I normally sleep through the night without waking every night that Hannah doesn't wake me up, but not since I put in the nuva ring.

I am feeling quite a bit better now at 5:10 am on Tuesday, and will lay down again and try to sleep.

My 4 yo daughter has been taking Sinulair since last spring (Apirl 2006).

Worked great, I don't remember any side effects last summer. She was 2 & changed every day so it's hard to say. Now she's 3 & we've started it back up again at the start of spring. It's hard to say for a 3 year old what symptoms/side effects they are really suffering from. They aren't able to express themselves except mostly by actions. I just assumed her moodyness, crying jags, trouble sleeping at night were part of her age/personality.

Now, I'm noticing a definate problem getting her to bed every night. She will easily be up until 10 - 10:30 before falling asleep. This is even if I put her to bed around 8. She doesn't sleep well either. I'm pretty sure she's dreaming, but it's hard to say whether or not she's having nightmares. We've already made an appt with another doc to switch to something other than Singulair.

Too bad this type of info has to be sought after by the patient's & not provided at the time the medication is prescribed. I'll have to do more research regarding the physchotropic issues of this drug. They prescribe this for kids?

Thank goodness I found this. I thought my son was going to crazy. He is 5 years old and having terrible outbursts and says he cannot controll his emotions. I was really worried. This explains a lot. thank you

My 3 year old son has had many sinus problems over the past two years. He had his tonsils out last August along with tubes in his ears and removal of his adenoids. He still has constant drainage from his eyes and nose so he has been on Zyrtec for about a year without any side effects. About 3 weeks ago his ENT suggested singulair to help with all the sinus drainage that just won't go away. I just related it to a number of problems he has experienced in the past 3 weeks. My son has delayed speach and does not communicate well. He kept complaining of a tummy ache and we went to our family practitioner and "it's just a stomach bug". I also noticed that he has been waking up during the night and getting into bed with us. I know he has been having more dreams, but He is not able to tell us if they are nightmares. Just tonight when I was putting him in the bathI noticed a rash around the base of his penis and he would scream if we tried to examine him. I am sure that it is Candida Albicans and that is when I googled Singulair and Candidiasis and found all the other side affects that are on this site and others.

My 3 year old took 3rd dose tonight before bed. Prescribed for sinus infection. Woke up repeatedly, crying and calling our names and having conversations in his sleep both nights on this med. Very strange behaviours. Seems to be affecting his nervous system and brain in ways I am not comfortable with. Will discontinue immediately. Would encourage others to discontinue use quickly when experiencing adverse symptoms.

My 3 year old son was prescribed Singulair two weeks ago. He has an unexplained bout of diarrhea, he has been having regular screaming melt downs, irrational fears of random things such as bathtub water, the cat, the doorknob etc.

He became very aggressive and inconsolable at pre-school the other day and I had to come remove him. The teachers were astounded because he has never had that type of behavior and were very concerned. I called the doctor immediately and had my husband do an internet search on Singulair side affects as I drove to the doctor's office.

He will not take this medication ever again. The doctor said she had never seen side affects to this medication. But she said that since his new behavior coincided with taking the medication she switched him to albuteral.

Please be careful with all medication. I have found that many doctors have absolutely no clue about alot of things.

my 3 year old was prescribed this for an ear infection.
He took one dose at noon, and by 2am (14 hours later)
the bad reactions set in....
Diarrhea and constant vomitting for 6 hours.
I did not, and REFUSE to give him a 2nd dose.
DO NOT TAKE THIS MEDICATION!

My 3 year old son has mild persistant asthma. He has wheezing and coughing spells off and on throughout the year. He has been on Singulair now for about a month and we notice that he is not sleeping as well as he used to and he has become aggitated and restless. He used to be a sweet, easy-going kid. His preschool teacher has told us that he's not listening in school and that he's just not himself lately. We are taking him off of Singulair as of today.

It's the 8th day our 3 year old child has been using Omnicef (after a 10-day amoxicilin that didn't work), and it's been only getting worse and worse. No you're not crazy, she is complaining about leg pain. She is constantly crying and she usually never cries or even whines. So this must be definitely a side-effect of this drug. We will cut this drug off today (will not complete 10 days) and will tell our doctor about all this. However, they usually don't take complaints seriously when we mention we read it on the Internet. On the contrary, we're getting real complaints from real people with real pain.

I agree with guest 33852 about the burning and the frequent trip to the bath room. I have a 3 year old and see spent 3 days in the hospital and many trip to the emergency room due to her weezy and not able to get it controlled with breathing treatments. So she has been on singular now for 3 weeks and ever since she goes pee some times 10 times in one hour and always complains of it hurting down there. So I asked the doctor when we where still in the icu of this and he said the antibiotic she was on would take care of it. It still happen after that. So I took her to her ped doctor and they did a urine test and nothing but it still has yet to go away. She also Is not listening she seems really silly and she has been complaining of being scared ever since and shes never done that before. So I have a appointment with the asthma specialists and I am going to get her on something else. Singulair is horriable and I think doctors are just throwing it at everyone who has asthma. My brothers on it and the doctor tried to give it to my two other kids who don't have asthma ( but have a dry cough through the winter).

I can definitely relate with guest #33291 and his experience with Singulair. Except my experience happened on the very first night I took Singulair. Went to doctor for sinus complaints. Gave me a decongestant and suggested I try Singulair since I have chronic sinus, thought maybe I had an asthma component, I guess. Supposed to take it before bed, which I did. After I took it I stayed up for a while and tried to wind down and watched T.V. After a while I, too, started to feel like I was having trouble breathing. Thought maybe it was in my head, stress, etc., and tried to go to sleep but couldn't. The breathing got worse and I felt like someone was sitting on my chest and like a tight band was closing around my throat. It was horrible. Luckily my son takes inhalers so I grabbed one of those which helped but not much. At 4:00 in the morning I found myself in the emergency room. Had to have labs, chest x-ray, steroid shot, iv fluids --- all to just conclude that this was an adverse reaction to the Singulair!! I actually thought I was having a heart attack at the time it happened as I am 34 years old and it was a possibility. I feel like complaining to the company as my free sample of Singulair cost me close to $500 out of pocket in the ER!

Reading some similar situations here leads me to conclude that Singulair is a nasty medication. I know that it works wonders for some, but for me it was horrible. I was actually looking for my 3 year old son. He was on Singulair for almost six months before I was. I had to take him off of it eventually because he was having ADD symptoms, restless and irritability. After experiencing what I did and my heart pounding, now I often wonder if his heart was racing too and feel awful!

My 3 year old son has had asthma for all of his life. He was hospitalized twice for severe asthma attacks. Since the second hospitalization, they put him on Singulair. He woke up often during the night with just random crying spells. When the bottle ran out, we never got it refilled. He then slept like a log every night. Then about 2 weeks ago, he had a bad asthma attack again. I took him into the dr. and she prescribed Singulair again for him. She mentioned that it could cause nightmares. So last night I gave it to him for the first time. He came yelling and screaming out of his room twice during the night. After the second time he just slept with us. But after that, he got up 3 or 4 times to get some water. My son is slow with speach, so he couldn't explain anything that was going on with him or how he was feeling. But for a little boy that has ALWAYS slept so soundly at night, I have to link it to the Singulair. And after reading all of these comments, I am convinced.

It may not affect everyone the same, and it may work great for some. But as for my son, I will have to find something else for his asthma.

My son is 3 years old. He suffers from nut allergies as well as asthma. We put him on Singulair since in the first month that he started school, he was sick for 4 weeks straight with cold after cold. Each time he got a cold, he also got respiratory infections as well.
My son is exhibiting aggressive behavior, more severe than normal. He is a normal 3 year old, who sometimes lashes out, but since taking the meds for the past 2 weeks, he cant stop himself. He is hyper and and doesnt know limits.
He also has been waking up all night long and coming into my room. One night he woke up 5 times in 2 hours. He is very sleepwalkish and then afraid to got back to sleep alone.
ANyone else have this?