Dramatic effect symptoms and conditions

My wife (66) was using salbutamol inhaler for the last 10 years being a bronchial asthmatic. Even prior to that, she was being treated with a combination of theophylline, cortisones . In 2001 she was diagnosed to be suffering from OCD and citalopram 20 mg was prescribed. With significant improvement, the dosage was reduced to citalopram 10 mg, though we lowered the dosage only in December 2007. However, during the last month, when she had to be admitted in the hospital for a stomach virus the doctors prescribed MONTELUKAST SODIUM 10 MG combined with lEVOCETIRIZINE 5 MG. .
Dramatically,montelukast had a dramatic effect in that my wife never used the salbutalmol inhaler for well over 2 months, about which we were very happy.
But the worst was yet to come.
During the last few days, she again showed symptoms of the dreaded OCD once again, and she suffered like anything. On contacting a well known doctor, we were advised to stop MONTELUKAST and asked to continue citalopram (though escitalopram instead of citalopram ) along with clonozepam 5 mg to be tapered down every week for about a month.
I would like to be advised from a doctor whether (a) discontinuance of Montelukast will be able to bring back normalcy from OCD of course with citalopram or escitalopram. and (b) whether montelukast can be abruptly stopped. For the time being, we have reduced the dosage of montelukast from 10 mg to 5 mg.
PLEASE ADVISE US.

I've been a pill taker for twenty years (maybe more). I switched to loestrin FE in November. I realize that any bc takes the body some time to adjust but this has been pretty brutal. I gained 12 lbs and I cannot get it off no matter how much I work out and/or don't eat. I'm depressed too yet I have a beautiful life. My doctor says you sometimes need a year for your body to adjust to a new pill... I don't know if I can wait that long. My kids think I have lost my mind because I cry so much. I too think irrationally a lot more than in prior years. I will ask my doctor about this next week. It seems like this pill might have serious effects on the thyroid? Most of the symptoms described are also associated with hypothyroidism.

**Update** on my 17 year old son, 7 years Singulair use. He has been in a therapeutic boarding school for 2 years because of serious behavioral issues quite possibly because of side effects of Singulair. He wrote me a letter the morning he went off Singulair, March 29. In it he wrote about being very depressed and sad and told about how he had been struggling with it for such a long time. It was very upsetting. I got the letter this morning. Coincidentally, we had a conference call about 20 minutes after I read the letter. He has been off singulair for 4 days now. I asked him how he felt. He said "Excellent". That he was feeling a lot better, not very depressed and really feeling good about himself. I have not heard him describe himself as "Excellent" in a long, long time. I am cautiously optimistic that removing Singulair from his system will have a dramatic effect on his well being. He sounded incredibly upbeat today. It was amazingly good news! I have reported online to the FDA his symptoms and sent my comments to CNN. The FDA needs to issue a BLACK BOX warning about Singulair. It's quite possible that this drug has caused my family to live a nightmare for 7 years.

My son is currently 3.5 years old. He was diagnosed with asthma, but not without doubt. The doctor informed us that to be sure the patient must be given a drug for asthma and if the patient doesn't exibit any symptoms of asthma they must have asthma. So havin a broad background in science I thought, what a horrible way to decide if someone needs meds. So of coarse they prescribed singulair and this should stop any out breaks if he has asthma. Well I disagreed with the diagnosses and mentioned that his outbreaks are spreading out and only occure with a severe fever, and in addition I determined that the best treatment was to get the fever down as fast as possible. This had a much more dramatic effect than the nebulizer. The doctor said that was just asthma and that he needs to be treated chronically not accutely. After much debate with my wife about the prescription (I was against, she for) it was dropped, so it seemed. He has had no problems since early spring 2005 and none to date feb 2006. Although we have noticed that is behavior has becoming more unpleasent in the last few months with fits that he never had before? This morning I noticed a bottle of singulair chew tablets that was filled in late Aug. 05 and had one pill left. My wife dicided to put our son on this without my knowledge. This prompted me to find info. on singulair which led me to this web site and wow look at all the similiar side effects. What a world we live in when a parent that is concerned about what and how a doctor decides to prescribe to your child is questioned. I was made to feel like a none caring parent by many, to even question the advise of a doctor. So now the big ? he has not had any symptoms so is the drug to be continuely given or do I stand up for my son and take him off of it, and possible suffer being labeled the bad parent or worse??????????????????