Angry outbursts symptoms and conditions

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My daughter has been on Yasmin for a year and a half - it was prescribed for irregular periods and spotty skin. She is 15 and has had a year of nausea, leg cramps, hair loss, headaches, elevated heart rate,fatigue , irritation,angry outbursts ,dehydration severe moodiness and depression and lately- uncontrolled crying for no reason. She also sees black dots after exercising. She has gone from a happy girl who loved exercise to a grumpy couch potato! The doctor diagnosed it as a viral infection and suspected glandular fever - she missed a lot of school!
Today she had a day from hell - fought with a teacher and cried for hours. She also takes Ritalin as she is ADD- so I thought it was that - I decided to look up Yasmin and am so glad I did! What a great website! She has just taken a multivitamin and mag.phos - NO MORE YASMIN!!! Any advice on what she can use for her skin? and irregular periods?
A million thanks
Caron

Okay- A friend just emailed this site to me, my son is 4 and has been taking Singulair for about 2 years. He has seasonal allergies which seem to be year round, asthma and food allergies. He is on Singulair and Allegra daily, this in it self freaks me out. What I have noticed for at least the past year is that when he is running around or moving a lot he hold his right side and says he has a pain in it, we now call it a "stitch". it happens not from strenuous activity, our doctor just says its growing pains, that doesn't make sense. something is bothering him it happens with somewhat frequency. I am really thinking about his behavior, it seems to me he can change on a dime. from happy to very angry, outbursts and then right back to sweet, yes this could describe any 4 year old, but not any 4 year old is on Singulair. I remember saying to him where is my sweet boy? I feel like that might have been when we started the meds, i am so used to his behavior now that it seems almost normal but there was a time he acted differently. and i do remember saying that.... was it when he went on Singulair???

I am one of those women who spent years on Yasmin and more recently on its follow-up Yaz. I heard "low-dose" formulation and just assumed these would be the right pills for me, since I had moderate PCOS. Well it's taken me a long time to figure out that the introduction of these pills coincided with an increasing frequency and severity of mood swings and tension. Over the years the mood swings have included angry outbursts and irritability. I did like the predictable periods and absence of cramping. But that was definitely not worth the psychological and emotional suffering I've been through and put others through. I took my last Yaz pill today. I hope I get my normal life back, without the PCOS.

I am Bipolar, and I have been on many drugs. When I began taking Effexor, I was misdiagnosed and told that I was manic depressive. Anti-depressants can often make people with Bipolar worse. Effexor was the worst! My main issues were terrible, vivid nightmares and anger problems. The nightmares were bad, but after even one alchohlic beverage, I became enraged. I said and did things to my friends, that I would never do. I know you are not really suppose to drink on a lot of medication, but one drink? I became scared of myself and I am lucky to still have my friends.

I do know, that Effexor works for some people, because my dad is on it and he loves it. It just wasn't for me.

Singulair was a BAD BAD BAD choice for my children. I wish I had never agreed to give it a try. I have three children who were put on it for their allergies to take with their zyrtec that did not seem to be able to keep up. The Doctors all assured me singulair is a very safe and effective drug with very little if any side effects.

Well over the years we have had the stomach pains, vomiting, ear infections, loss of appetite, bad dreams, behavior issues, explosive aggression, unable to focus for long, muscle and joint pains, hair loss, unable to sleep at night because they are restless and cannot settle but unable to wake up in the morning, acting angry about nothing all the time. I was laying beside my son one night because he was sick and I could hear his heart beating so fast like it was going 100mph. He could not settle and when he did he was jerked awake by bad dreams. I gave him a singulair just hours before for his allergies and cough.

The Doctors still tell me singulair does not cause these kinds of side effects. Funny it all stopped when we stopped giving the medicine to them. Now they are eating so much now like they were starving all this time and need to catch up. They sleep like rocks and they are just turning out to be nice children to be around again. And the purple bags under their eyes that the Dr's kept telling me were caused by allergies are disappearing. I am thinking it was caused by not being able to rest. The laughter I hear in my home is like music to my ears. We don't have angry outbursts anymore. The older children tell me they feel so much better now that they are not taking that medicine anymore. My smallest told me his tummy does not hurt anymore. It used to hurt every night but not anymore.

I will never allow my children to take it again. This stuff is like poison to us. The Dr can keep it! I just hope giving this to them has not caused any long term health issues for them that we have yet to find out about.

Merck needs to run a new study on this medicine. I wish the FDA would yank it.