Fitful sleep symptoms and conditions

It seems that this subject has been extensively documented, but just wanted to confirm that I believe this drug is very dangerous. We JUST put our 5-1/2 year old daughter on it one week ago. She has NEVER had any issues sleeping, is most often in a great mood, and has been protected beyond belief by my wife from negative imagery, TV, etc. The last week was unbelievable. Night terrors every night, with the most vivid and negative imagery when asked to describe the content of her dreams. Things that I would have thought she must have gotten from watching a Stephen King movie. Given the lack of fitful sleep could have been a contribute, but her mood all week was very downtrodden. Hard to say a 5 year old can be depressed, but I would have to say she was, very sullen, moody, despondent to affection.

I can positively say this was a blind test. We didn't really read the label on the medicine until yesterday, so we were not looking into things that weren't there, nor were we focusing in on the sleep issues. We took her off yesterday, and hopefully I will be able to report that the night terrors that I am 95% positive must have come from this drug will abate.

I hear because the chewable format is new, this drug is really being pushed. I hope this drug is pulled instead of being promoted. Buyer beware, especially administering to kids. I can't imagine if our daughter had been a little younger and not able to express herself to the level she can at 5.

My normally healthy 3 year old daughter came down with a cough that she couldn't shake. My husband and I have both had the same thing, but I still thought I'd better take her to her pediatrician. He said he did not think she had asthma, but he would give me a 30 day chewable sample of Singulair to get rid of the cough. My husband nor I could really understand why we were giving her an asthma/allergy medication for what we took to be a cold with a cough (again, we both have had the same thing ourselves), but we figured the doctor knows better than us.

Wish I had listened to my gut reaction. I only had her on Singulair 2 days before deciding I needed to find some more information about Singulair. In those 2 days, she immediately began complaining that her belly hurt. She wouldn't eat, had trouble sleeping, became even more temperamental and moody than she's ever been. She woke from a fitful sleep the second night and even though I was sitting right beside her, she cried that she couldn't see me. I have had her off Singulair for 4 days now and tonight was the first time she's had any appetite since she started the medication. I'm hoping she's on her way back to her normal self.

I am so glad I found this website before I gave her any more of what I consider to be a poison. It outrages me that I took her to the doctor for a cough and instead put her through this. It bothers me to no end that kids who don't even have asthma or allergies are being given Singulair. I've always trusted our pediatrician, but now I have serious issues with going back to him.

My daughter has been on singulair for about a year now and she just turned 3. I discovered in about January that all through the night she would make weird noises with her mouth because her mouth is so dry. Then came the disturbed sleep. For the last two months she would wake up in the morning crying because her legs would hurt so bad. She wanted me to carry her everywhere. She could never keep up the other kids because she was physically exhausted. Then came the tantrums and crying. She just started biting, hiting and being mean to anyone around her. She also started not being able to remember her numbers and colors. I took her off of it a week and a half ago. The last three days her mood has improved and her memory seems better. The only thing that has not improved is her dry mouth. Hopefully that will improve with time.

I was prescribed sulfameth for an infection from a possible bug bite. After three days of taking this drug, I've had a severe headache, nausea, diarrhea, chills, fever, excessive perspiration, tightness and pain in my chest, dizziness, tingling around my lips, low back pain, weird nightmares and fitful sleep. Also, my blood sugar level is significantly elevated and I have constant stiffness and soreness in my neck. I'm just now coming to this website after experiencing these side effects for a total of five of the eight days I've been on the sulfameth.

I was prescribed Levaquin for a prostate infection. 500mg per day for 30 days. Took it for a couple of weeks and it worked, cleared up the infection, but oh my goodness, what horrible side effects...

Parathesia, especially in hands
Unpleasant dreams and fitful sleep
Heavy, heavy fatigue and weakness
Muscle and tendon pain extraordinare - twitchy too
Joint pain, back pain, you name it, it hurt
Lower left leg even feels sunburned when lightly touched
Slightly psycho / depressed

I will never, ever take this medicine again. I stopped taking the medicine over a month ago (at my physician's suggestion) but the symptoms still linger. Although, they have improved somewhat. It's nasty stuff. How on earth did the FDA approve it?