Beging symptoms and conditions

I can agree with so many of you who've shared your experiences - for about a year I felt more like 'the old me' on Wellbutrin, but in the last six months I've become progressively more fuzzy-minded. It scares me that there are times that I worry that I won't be able to finish a coherent sentence... like I'm speaking in slow motion waiting for individual words to filter through the fog of my brain so that they can be spoken. OK, it's certainly not always like this - and so far only my husband seems to have noticed, but I dread muttering the wrong thing in a business setting. Perhaps worse than this, in the vanity that is our present reality, I've seen significant hair loss from the top of my head - my squeaking clean pate is SHINY in the mirror and I hate it!!! It's winter now, but I can't wear hats all the time, and I just don't happen to work in a 'fashion forward' industry where I might hope to make hats a trend for all to follow. I will be weaning myself off of Wellbutrin and looking into oral and topical arnica b/c I'm nervous about trying Rogaine and begging stuck with that regimen for the rest of my life. The women in my family all have lovely hair; I'm 40, not 80!!

My 7 year old son has been taking Singulair for about 2 years now. He has suffered from asthma since he was an infant and started with Pulmicort, then Zyrtec, then Singulair with Claritin (adding Albuterol and Flovent during periods of wheezing) as he aged. We have changed meds often due to concerns about staying on a steroid (Pulmicort) and noticible behavior problems (Zyrtec) and were assured by his doctor that Singulair does not have the same side-effects as the others. After reading so many of the other postings on this site, we are pretty certain that his unusual behavior (ADD like attention problems, fits of crying for no reason, inability to explain why he is doing things, acting out, etc.) are possibly the result of the Singulair. Like many others who have posted on this site, my son had always been a sweet well-behaved child who people loved to be around. However, over the past couple of years we have noticed more and more incidents of inappropriate behavior in school and nothing we have tried has worked to resolve the behaviors. He basically annoys others to the point that they avoid being around him and recently classmates have asked his teacher to move them to another table so they do not have to be bothered by him. Yesterday he cried uncontrollably for over 20 minutes when a toddler broke apart a Lego design he had just finished. I am going to stop the Singulair today and see if we notice any improvements over the next few weeks. I know we are at risk of asthma attacks without it (it definitely controls his asthma as he has not had an attack since going on it), but will continue the Claritin and have Albuterol if needed. NO medicine is worth taking if it can have such an impact on a child's behavior! I just hope, if it is the meds that have caused his behavior, that it is reversible after he is off and he will go back to beging the great kid that he used to be.

I had an injection of Kenalog in my lips...yes my lips. I had swelling in my lips after a botched restylane injection. The same quack then injected my lips 4 times..2 on each side with Kenalog to bring down the swelling. The area above my lips has caved in and is very thin. I started having stomach/intestinal issues one week after the injections. I have had blood in my stools for two months. I have had test and now on Tuesday I have a colonoscopy. Until this site, I was baffaled as to how I could just have out of the blue started to have these symptoms. I see now that this too could be a side effect of the wonderful Kenalog. I also know that the doctor should have never injected this into such a tender tissue area to beging with (lips) Thank you for your postings.

Since I`ve been taking morphine when I wake up I`m so stiff I can hardly get out of bed. I feel very diconnected at times and blow up at the littlest thing. I seem to be spending more time in bed due to stiffness and pain in my spine and muscles, then before I took this medicine. I have Fibromyalgia and arthritis. I thought this would help with pain, I`m beging to wonder.