Counselors symptoms and conditions

I am a 60 year old male. I have a bad heart, type 2 diabetes, damage to my heart from a heart attack in 2006. i have a pacer/defibrillator in me.
now after reading all these post i am wondering. i have been taking this medicine since 1996 when then i was told i had my 2nd heart attack and i did not know i even had my first. This medication was given to me for either an alfa or bata blocker, was on 5mg.. now i am on 2 1/2 that i take at night. i take a total of 19 pills a day and 5 shots of insulin, i have bad teeth and now the rest of them have to come out and i have to have bone mass ground down just to get some false teeth. wow i am in great shape huh..lol
well since the little history on me, this is what i am going thru now. i wake up with this deep cough and it gets to a point were i am gagging, after i get the what i call the hair ball out i feel a little better, then i have to keep blowing my nose to get the mucus out of my nasal cavity, I THOUGHT I WAS GONNA DIE THIS MORNING WITH THIS and i did die 4 times in 3 days in 2006 when i had this last heart attack. I see my caro Dr. on the 11th of this month, and i am gonna ask to go off this crap. my bp is normally anywhere from 90/55 to 114/65. and before i was taking this medicine and my attacks in 96, my bp was normally 124 over 70. now i can understand that this medicine is suppose to help protect my kidneys, but the way i am dry heaving and coughing one day they are gonna with everything else in this body cavity come out thru my mouth.
i am horrified off all the ppl and post i have read about this little blue pill i take and it is not for keeping wood either, that floated down the river. THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO HAS MADE A POST ...YOU HAVE MADE ME QUESTION THIS MEDICATION AND I AM GOING TO DO MORE AND MORE RESEARCH ON ITS SIDE EFFECTS.

Please contact me if you would like to help by sharing your story with the media,I am looking for stories of recovery after stopping the medication.Please use my private email under kate2 or just reply under this posting.Kate M.

Hi to all,
I wanted to take a minute to say Thanks to all who post and search for answers to this drugs confusing and serious side effects.To all who have taken the time to contact the FDA and file a report to help others.Dr.Sarah Sellers is no longer the person to contact at the FDA,she has moved on after concluding her end of the investigation on Singulair.If you have a serious side effect please still take the time to file on the official FDA site for adverse event reporting.In NY. state we are still searching for legislation to help with the notification process for these serious side effects.There are to many Doctors that still do not have a clear idea of the updated side effects,and are not reporting as they should.
Letting your doctor know that good medicine is all about follow up on complaints,such as researching the singulair website to rule out that it may be the drug or it may not.Just dismissing the patient and prescribing another drug is how these drugs go undetected for so long.We want this to stop and only the unfortunate recipients of the horrors of this drug can make this happen.Again thank you for your efforts to change the system with follow through and perserverance.Our horror story is one of many and we want to help those who have survived the ravages of this drug, OUR CHILD DID NOT. Kate and Dave M.

I have two sons on Singulair, my three old was suspended today from pre-school for bad behavior. Screaming, biting, scratching, and hitting have been going on for the last few months. But worse the past two weeks. He has always been active and played like a boy, but he has been getting violent. We have tried positive reinforcement, praising good behavior both verbally and with rewards, I have tried time-out, being grounded, not being able to participate in activities, no t.v. and old fashioned butt spanking. All of this with no positive results. I am not looking for an excuse for my child's behavior, but could Singulair really be the cause of his aggression?

WOW! This is simply amazing. Every story I read is like someone is writing about my life. I am a single parent of a beautiful 7 yr old. My daughter has been on Singulair for 5 yrs. Like most she has the nightmares, mood swings, anger, endless energy, talks of death and dying. It is a very hard thing to watch your child go through this. It is horrible to have your 7 yr old tell you to just kill them. I couldn't tell you how many nights I have went to bed in tears after a day on this roller coaster of emotions. Like many other she has been LABELED as an ADHD & ODD child. For the past 2 yrs we have been fighting the battle of the diagnosis of ADHD and ODD and her ped is now saying possibly Bi-Polar. We are now trying a 4th med for the SUPPOSED ADHD since none have seemed to help and some have made it even worse. We have had countless appointments with doctors, counselors, and school about her behavior problems. Not to mention the amount of time at work I have missed. Now her ped has suggested a psychiatrist for the possible diagnosis of Bi-Polar. Well to my surprise all of this may be a side effect of a med that has worked so well for her asthma and allergies. I will be calling her specialist first thing Monday morning and see what options we have because she is getting off of Singulair. I am torn here....part of me is so angry that this med could be what has caused all this pain that my daughter and I have went through BUT part of me will be very happy to know that all these LABELS that my daughter has already gotten from her docs and at school will be wrong. It will be a great relief to know that this could all be over soon.

All this new information has me wondering. My 16 year old son has been on Singulair now fro approx. 9 years . He started having some problems in school like worrying about everything and being afraid. When he turned 12 we seen a big change he refused to go to school he would cry and hang on the sofa arm , his father would have to to remove his fingers and carry him to the school bus. No counselors could tell us what was wrong. The school provided a tutor one on one that seemed to work but he would not steo foot in a school or socialize with kids. He is now 16 and I home school him he still at times will show some signs of anxiety but he is happy at home with family. He is also tired a lot and has trouble concentrating for long periods of time . I wonder if this drug has done this to my child and taken away the education he could of had. I will be calling his Ped. on MONDAY.

I too am on Singulair and have no side effects. But the issue is not adults on Singulair it is children it is a drug that affects them differently. My daughter is 8 years old and has been on it for 3 years. She has been exhibiting similar symptoms as all of the other children. I never thought about the Singulair. The doctor had her see counselors. I started wondering if she needed anxiety medicine. She has a lot of fear, anxiety, anger, screams, is very hateful, sad. But if she misses a dose she gets instantly sick. She has an asthma attack. So I want to know alternatives. I don't want these kids abuse any longer with this drug. I feel so bad for them and my daughter. They have suffered too long. We see the doctor on Tuesday. Anybody have any ideas.

To the post about vaginal infections
I never had a infection itching in my life now 4 months off Yaz/Yasmine Iam itchy there as well dont know what it is

The anti depressant question Iam still in the air about that I wouldnt take both I debated taking something else also

My life is like a mirror someone picked it up and dropped it

I thought I was starting to feel better than now bad again everytime I start to feel normalcy it changes

I wish I knew what it was

Its enough to drive you crazy

I have been to doctors hormone specialists counselors no one knows whats going on

The only savior is that people seem to get better at some point

I wish someone knew what happened

flowerbabies sound like your doing well

how long have you been off?? A year omg Idont know how you guys did it without any help or any medications or any counselors its amazing. I wouldnt last a year like Iam now no way!

My eyes are so puffy from crying last night they look terrible

I hope with the Loprexa that I can just use it for a month or two and be back to the old me and get off of it the pharmacist said as soon as you feel good you can try to get off it so did my doctor.

Iam beginning to wonder if I wasnt having low estrogen low progesaterone symptoms for a long time prior to Yaz nothing like this at all but i was a little anxious sometimes if I went to a mall or drove on the freeway.

Hormones I hate them

Iam still taking the natural progesterone cream if iam a 2.0 beginning of my cycle thats low I think is it.

I know nothing about the levels.

Did I tell anyone I was iron deficient anemia going into this mess thats part of why my doc put me on Yaz.
My blood showed it is up now but I was a 8 or 9 now Iam a 12

I wish I would gain weight flowerbabies Iam so thin it terrifies me

I was going to list all the side effects I have had while taking Yasmin but it looks as though I have the same side effects as everyone else. I took Yasmin for one year and I regret it. During this time I had extreme anxiety (I even started fearing going into stores because I had "dizzy spells" from the anxiety), heart palputations, vision problems, headaches, and so on. I starting seeing counselors and doctors. They all thought I had an anxiety disorder. Thanks to this site, I stopped taking Yasmin about 3 weeks ago and I feel so much better. All the symptoms have not completly gone away but for the most part they have. Good luck to all of you and thanks for your postings!