Athsma symptoms and conditions

I have been on Advair Diskus and Singular for about 2 months now for Athsma. As time went on I wondered what was wrong with me.

Singular gave me a horrible stomach ache after 2-3 days which I stopped.
Symbicort made me very itchy and gave me hives.

W/Advair my personality changed as I fell deeper and deeper into a pit of despair. It all began w/serious mood swings, fatigue, leg cramps, anxiety and depression. I wondered why I was so out of sort and I noticed my emotions were not what I considered normal for my self. I became anti-social and have been unable to sleep for more than 3-4 hours at a time as well as now I also have itchy skin and hives.

I thought, what am I doing now that I have not been on or doing before and began to Google my symptoms. I ran into this site to find my aggravations w/anexity, depression and lack of focus is now not my imagination and that I am not the only one and now understand the reasons why I have been feeling so down.

I am now on the path to detoxing from this stuff and am going to stop taking this medication and just use Proventil as needed for my Athsma.

Thanks to all of you who posted here and best of luck to everyone in recovery from the terrible side effects of these medications.

My 9 yo daughter has been off and on Singulair for several years trying to get her athsma and allergies regulated. She has been put on zyrtec, and claritin and it has been a constant battle with her. She has been in and out of children's mental health facilities 3 times in the past year and has been diagnosed as having ODD (Oppositional Defiance Disorder), Mood Disorder, Depression, Severe ADHD, Bi-Polar as well as ADO (Adjustment Disorder) and emotional disorder, just to name some of the diagnosis she has had. SHE IS ONLY NINE YEARS OLD. Due to ALL these other diagnosis, she has been on and off so many different medications that I cannot help but wonder if some of these diagnosis are due to her taking the Singulair. When she was taking the SINGULAIR, she could not sleep at night, she complained about her stomach hurting all the time, she was very angry, emotional, and cried very easily for no reason at all. I have not given her any SINGULAIR since I first heard about all this stuff two days ago and can already see a difference. The fact that these people are doing this to our children infuriates me and something needs to be done!!!!!!!!

I just found this and wanted to put a warning on here to new topamax users. If you experience difficulty breathing, please consult with your doctor immediately! I havent even been on this for two weeks and this week I upped to 50mg @ bedtime, and within 1hr of taking the first 50mg dose of this, I started having swelling and tingling of my hands and face, difficulty breathing, and a lot of problems concentrating. Second day, same thing, third day same thing, and today, I went in and demanded to see my dr (who wasnt in the office today) and they wanted me to wait until next week to be seen, and I knew something wasnt right, I wanted seen now. They kept insisting "its not a common side effect of the drug" and I kept asking if it was a side effect at all... seriously, it took me several hours to be heard, and finally, the ARNP that I was seeing in place of the practitioner I normally see looked it up and its a severe side effect. Needless to say, I am not taking this drug anymore, and will continue my quest for a migraine relief. *They* said it should only be in my system 21hrs (we're on 25now) and the effects should be gone by then, which makes sense because each day, the effects seemed to subside shortly before I took the next bedtime dose, but today, they're persistant... I can't breathe, my fingers wont cooperate with me due to the numbness and tingling, and my lips are numb, swollen and tingling which makes it difficult to drink anything...

Anyway... PLEASE... be proactive with this medication... if something doesnt feel right, talk to your dr, and make them listen to you... Im waiting for blood and urine tests to come back to be sure the drug hasn't had any other effects on me... they said that the topamax allows (as a severe side effect) the blood to absorb high amounts of carbon monoxide (great, huh?) which is what causes the difficulty breathing (which she was originally trying to brush off as my athsma, which I KNEW wasnt the issue... I KNOW when my athsma is bothering me, and what an athsma attack is... I've been athsmatic for the greater part of my 26yrs of being...)

I am glad I stumbed upon this side. I have had athsma since I was about 10. Now I am 34. I took Advair for the first time last year and it seemed to help, with no side effects. This past September, I got slammed with pneumonia and my athsma got out of control. I was prescribed Advair again and it helped get my athsma under control. I took it for a month, and the day I stopped taking it my voice pretty much disappeared. I am now going on almost nine weeks with no voice. My throat does not hurt and I feel great. I just have no voice and am pretty convinced it is from Advair. I have been otherwise healthy are very rarely sick my whole life. I'll never take Advair again. I am seeing an ENT specialist next week and will post if I learn something worthy of sharing.

This is absoultely the worst case of mis-understood or incorrectly assed drugs I have ever seen. I have been looking for something to help with my athsma and allergies. I heard Singulair was being used not only for athsma prevention but for allergies too.

The label says "very minor side effects", something to the affect of very low incidents of insomnia, upset stomach, etc etc.

This drug needs to be re-evaluated. I'm home sick from taking this stuff after 3 days.

Last night I slept very poorly, had SEVERE nightmares to the point of waking up kicking and screaming. I almost punched my wife because I had a dream I was being attacked. I HAVE NEVER encountered such bad side effects from somtehing the label indicated relatively low side effects.

I am having dizziness today, lack of sleep, very painful and upset stomach and other issues.

I'm of the opinion that there IS NO allergy medicine that has lesser symptoms than the allergies them selves. This was a horrilbe experience and after reading about parents giving this to their children it makes me very upset.

How can a child explain they side effects I am experiencing?

I wouldnt give this stuff to my dog.

This is my personal experience and personal opinion. Take it for what its worth.

Dave

My son (17) has been on colazal twice now and has
seen an increase in athsma cough.

Hi,

Last week I was cleaning, and I sprayed my sink area with bleach, I accidentally leaned into the bleach soaking my pants causing an awful rash from an allergic reaction. I had Prednisone already prescribed from an earlier date for my athsma, so I followed the directions on the bottle and took 4 pills which was 40 mg last night at 3am. I slept through the night, but when I got up and started moving around, I felt very hot in my face, flushed, confused and irritable. I took it upon myself to take 40 mg and now I don't have any more to take for today to ween myself slowly. Is this dangerous? should I call my Dr. tonight or will it be ok until monday? Please help...thanks

I start omeprazole tomorrow. I have been taking protonix the insurance co. would not pay for the other. I am 72 yrs old and wonder about the side effects. Have athsma and hige blood pressure. Hope it works. Will let you know. Pray i will be okay.

My son quit singulair "cold turkey" after 6 years of use,
but his athsma was mild. I would agree that those with more severe athsma should be careful when stopping singulair,
have a good emergency back up plan and talk to your doctor. My son's athsma actually improved off singulair though. I think everyone is different, so definitely be careful. I really believe that those expiriencing stuttering, ticks adhd and bad dreams and behavioral problems may already be predisposed to some pschyciatric disorder, the singuliar seems to bring this out and amplify the problem. My son will be evaluated for bi-polar disiorder, but already has been diagnosed adhd and tourettes. I would recommend that anyone with these problems with singulair discontinue and consult a good psychciatrist or psychologist about these behaviors, it probably is not all the cause of this med, just made worse by it.

I'm a 43 year old adult with Athsma due to Samotor's Syndrome. I use Singulair for about 3 years, had weight gain and trouble sleeping. I switched to Petadolex (herbal supplement) and stopped using singulair. This has allowed me to cut my Advair use from 2/day to just once.

15 yr. old son.
One month without singulair (had been on since 1998)
SGOT/AST (liver enzymes) back to a normal 30
normal is 15-59, one month ago on singulair it was 162 !
His moods are under much better control.
We have been able to talk and reason with him.
He has been taking constructive critisim and discipline better, less aggressive. Has some lingering anxiety, but much different. He has been much, much calmer.
Athsma has been absent, no sneezing.

My doctor gave me a 250 and then the 500 inhaler, not for athsma but just a bad cough and lung congestion. I have had a swollen throat/hoarseness since then (3 weeks ago). It cleared up my conjestion but I wake up at night choking and unable to breathe. Thank god for this website. I will not use this unhaler again.