Blood institute symptoms and conditions

Oh my gosh. I am on this website because I googled "behavior issues with Singulair" Both of my children are on Singulair. One from as young as 5 months old. Both Pulmonologist, allergist and Internal med Ped. insisted that it was a safe drug. They aren't living with it. My 7 year old has taken it consistently for 5 years and recently upped is having behavior, aggression, insomnia and constant reports back from the teacher on his behavior. We had him psychologically evaluated and they found nothing uncommon to his age. All his issues are described in almost everyone of these side effect threads. I am just afraid to take him off and feel the blame if something serious happens. I am calling tomorrow for possible alternatives.

Those of you who are suffering from muscle achiness should tell your doctors that this is now a recognized side-effect of statins. An article published in the October 1, 2002 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine concluded "Some patients who develop muscle symptoms while receiving statin therapy have demonstrable weakness and histopathologic findings of myopathy despite normal serum creatine kinase levels." Similar problems are recognized by the American College of Cardiology, the American Heart Association adn the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. Their findings are cited in Jane Brody's column in the New York Times (December 10, 2002).
I experienced intense muscle achiness in my legs while on generic lovastatin. Interestingly, for me, this disappeared when I switched to Lipitor.