Consolation symptoms and conditions

P.S. If it's any consolation... I didn't put it all together until recently....you don't realize that the symptoms are all interconnected.

My daughter began taking Singulair in 2003 for asthma and allergies. I slowly watched her deteriorate from a lively, intelligent, and outgoing young woman to a depressed, withdrawn and self-mutilating person who said that she hated herself and everybody else in the world. She was an athlete, a straight A student who had received an academic scholarship to college, she was fluent in German and had been teaching herself Japanese, and she was a staunch supporter for equal rights for children with disabilities and gay and Lesbian teens. On February 3rd, 2007 my daughter hung herself after working at the local community center. I no longer recognized who she had become. I have a degree in psychology, my father is a retired police officer, and my mother is a retired R.N. We were all trained to recognize the symptoms of depression and suicidal thinking, but we were never able to connect it to the medication that she was taking.We must all ban together to prevent other people from suffering the way that our loved ones have! Educate everyone that you know about what Singulair can do to you. They are still prescribing this drug to people without any notification of what the side effects are.

Hi. I was diagnosed yesterday with Bells Palsy, (the entire right side of my face is completely paralyzed) and given prednisone, a tapering dosage. I started my first dose of only 20 mgs last night and went to 60 mgs today, will keep on that dose tomorrow as well as one more day, taper down to 40 mg for two days, then 20 mgs for two days. My heart feels like it's going to beat out of my chest! I can feel it it's beating so hard and I can also hear it when lying down .Very freaky. My blood pressure today was 164/107. My normal bp is 110/70. I take medication for high blood pressure but it's not doing much good. I am also a diabetic and my sugar is whack! Had to increase my Metformin. I'm assuming since no one has died from taking this HORRIFIC medicine, we'll all live through it but at times, I feel like I am going to have a frigging massive panic attack! I have to calm myself down, listen to music, meditate. That does help some but not enough .I will be sooooooooo glad when I'm done taking this SH*T! Another thing I've noticed is I am bone weary weak, like I've run the Boston Marathon, competed in the 1000 meter butterfly medley and then played 3 sets of tennis on top of that! GOOD GRIEF, HE INVENTED THIS CRAPOLA?

WOW! I guess I will consider myself one of the lucky ones after reading all of these side effects posted here. Let me first say that I have tried many inhalers -- serevent, flovent, ventolin etc etc -- and the asthma kept getting worse. Then my doctor suggested Advair. I've been taking it for several years now. I knew that all medications have side effects and I read through the list carefully. The medicine was a Godsend! It helped me so much that I would have recommended it to most anyone. Recently, however, I've started having the occasional heart palpitations and recurring sinus infections. I'm beginning to wonder if it is time to move on to another drug. I'm in my early 30s and have been trying to conceive for a few years to no avail. I recently read that Advair can cause irregular cycles and now wonder if it is playing a part in my fertility struggles. Only other symptoms I have are tooth sensitivity and occasional leg cramps -- however, these existed prior to starting Advair; they might have become more prevalent but I don't believe Advair caused them.
I'd like to hear from anyone who is currently trying Asmanex...that might be my next drug.

Wow... I thought I was just having another of those "I've never heard of someone responding to it that way" reactions to Singulair. I've always had strange reactions to drugs that others find tolerable. I recently started taking Singulair in addition to Allegra-D for chronic allergies and sinusitis. I feel groggy for the first few hours of the day and when I finally snap out of it I feel like biting someone's head off, very intolerant and aggressive. I've tried to take the Singulair twice for about 4 or 5 days each time and reacted the same way. I stopped it because I figured I'd get in trouble by eventually losing my temper with a student. There's some consolation in seeing that others have similar complaints. Aren't there any psychological studies being conducted?

Dejay, I was at that point, too, believe me. There were times around starts of 2005 where I just lived from day to day and the only consolation was, that I could end my life by myself if I should feel that I really can't take it any longer and nothing gets better further on.... I really had given up myself totally!! Without any hope for better days and I went through that for about 4 months. On some days my husband didn't know if he would find me still alive if he came back from work in the evening because I was really on the edge.... So believe me, I can imagine how Kim's doing right now!!

But it definitely needs more time than Kim already gave it!! It's not done within about 6 or 7 weeks. That's what everyone around here keeps telling her day by day.

And this should give her some hope: We ALL are still here and got through this all. I've been on Yasmin for very long 5 years and today I still don't know if I'll ever be back to the 100% old me, cause I still got problems durin my period and around ovulation, which sometimes really makes me desperate.

But with only 3 weeks on Yasmin there should be really hope to feel better so much earlier than we all did!! But please tell her not to give up everything that fast as she's doing now. Everything she tries to do against the anxiety needs time and I mean weeks, not only days!!!

Give her a big hug from me over the phone dejay and tell her that she MUST try to finally get some hope in her head. That's the only thing that helps.

Perhaps another thing that helped me sometimes: Everytime I felt the anxiety or got a panic attack I kept telling myself: It's all the Yasmin (and after getting off: It's all the hormones trying to get back in balance) and nothing will harm me, it feels very uncomfortable but it won't kill me!

Out of those words I told my self I took so much consolation and ability to go on still another day.

Kim and Dejay, you will get through this, I promise. And in a few months you both will be here in this forum telling other women the same things as we do now!! I'm so sure!!!