Citizen symptoms and conditions

I rember i think concerned citizen saying the pharmacore of singulaie was quinoline.........aboratory experiments have shown mutagenic effects. Possible carcinogen. Severe eye irritant. Harmful by inhalation, ingestion and through skine,i found this on a quinoline web site....interesting...............

I can not believe what I'm reading. My 5 year old was also given Singulair to treat asthma/allergies. He began having night terrors that increased in intensity over the past year. I stopped the Singulair on July 1 and the night terrors have reduced greatly. I am concerned about his asthma though. He has a consistent cough at night and I feel like he needs some type of treatment. Any suggestions?

I have only been taking singulair for about a month. I have noticed that I have become more irritable, grouchy, hateful and just numb, not really wanting to be around anyone, not caring about anyone else's feelings much. I also noticed I have become extremely lethargic, to the point of falling asleep at work as well as heart palpitations and stomach pains. I just started new birth control pills so at first assumed they were causing these side effects, that is until I looked up the side effects of this drug! I have over half of the side effects so I stopped it immediately and can already tell a difference in my mood. I have to sons age 11 and 14, both who have asthma and allergies. The took this medication for a few years with no side effects but have not taken it for about a year now. My youngest son however, has been diagnosed with ADHA and ODD and possibly BiPolar disorder. As I read the other posts, I realize the description of how their children act while on this drug is exactly how my son acts. I wonder if there can be irreversible permanent damage from taking this medicine? He has been on a number of ADHD drugs, none have helped except to make him stop eating and lose weight and he is small for his age, so I have taken him off everything. Has anyone else out there experienced what could be permanent damage from this drug in their children? Even after being off the drug for a year or so? If it could make me miserable within a month, what can it do when one takes it for years? Its sometimes hard to tell the effects of medicine on small children. My son prob starting taking it around 4 yrs old and took it til he was about 8 or 9. Just wondering if anyone else out there has had this happen to them or their children.

I don't know if my 1 1 /2 year old son's being diagnosed with low igG and low IgA have anything to do with singular. He just got off it 2 weeks ago, had been on it a year. He was tested for allergies everything was negative, but tested very high positive to gliadin IgG (95.5), and positive to gliadin IgA (14.8). Is this related???? HELP!!!!!! The GI Dr want to do an endoscopy on Friday May 2. Any help, I don't want my son under anesthesia unnecessarily..................

Hi again, I just wanted to give you all the web link to the copy of the injunction filed against the FDA by Public Citizens Inc. on Jan. 3, 2008.

http://www.citizen.org/documents/ciprocomplaint.pdf

It is for tendon damage only, but it is a start....

Lisa

It has been one year since my reaction. My life very gradually gets better but is has been horrible. After recovering for 6 months and starting to feel better, my bicep spontaneously ruptured. I KNOW this was due to the drug. Before taking this poison I led a very active and healthy life. I participate in many sports and do a great deal of physical labor.... or at least I used to.

To see a posting about the benefits of this drug just rubs salt in the wound. I'm sure it has helped some people. I'm also sure the drug companies are not above posting a "planted" message on the benefits. It still doesn't help those of us who have been harmed or the potential persons who may be harmed in the future.

In the paper today I noted that a suit has finally been filed on all of our behalf. It's about time. There is also information about this on:

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that states:

PUBLIC CITIZEN
FINALLY SUES THE
FDA OVER THE
ADVERSE DRUG
REACTIONS OF THE
FLUOROQUINOLONES