May 27th
2008
8:58 AM
tooth decay, hair falling out, numbness/tingling in upper back & left arm, joint pain
I was on Depo (on & off) for about 8 yrs I have teeth of a 80 yr old!! (I'm only 28) they just keep breaking & decaying I finally figured out it Has to be from the Depo
I'm currently on the Mirena & I also just figured out I have been having some S/E's with that too UGH I wish there was something for us w/o all the nasty S/E's
GL e/o
May 19th
2008
2:43 PM
In September of 2007 my then 13 year old daughter was put on Singular for mild asthma. At the time she was a straight A student, vice president of our school and a popular girl who's guidance counselor described as "the glue of her grade" because she was so well liked. In November she told me that she was struggling with advanced Latin and Science. She asked to drop down to on grade Latin so we did. In December her science teacher notified us that she had a C average. She told me that she thought she had ADD/ADHD and she couldn't keep up. At the same time she was having a lot of problems with friends at school and we just attributed it to being 14. 3 weeks ago we discovered that she is significantly behind in English and it was then that she told me that she is been having horrific night mares. She said that they usually involve someone killing her or her killing herself. She said that they were so graphic that she couldn't repeat it out loud. She also said that she would feel waves of anxiety that would come over her at school and she would act "witchy" to the kids in her class for no real reason. She said that sometimes when she is trying to do her homework she will read the same passage for 2 hours and still have no idea what it's about. She also said that the suicidal thoughts from her sleep happened during they day and that she had thoughts of her harming herself. Fortunately her pulminologist told us that this may be caused by singular and we immediately took her off of it which was 2 weeks ago. She has only had 1 "bad dream" not even a nightmare since. She had one anxiety attack 3 days after she was off it and she describes her moods as the "cloud lifting....slowly". Now, we have to pick up the pieces. Her grades have suffered, her friendships have suffered and most of all her self esteem is very low. I'm grateful that we found out the cause but I feel as if my daughter lost a year of her life and I worry that because Merck won't admit there are side effects we can't find out how long it remains in their system. Is anyone else concerned about the long term affect and has anyone pursued a class action suit to try to get this drug tested properly?
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May 16th
2008
9:23 PM
This is a follow-up. I have posted about our experience before, but to summarize: 6 year old boy on Singulair for over three years for Asthma. Drug worked wonders, but side effects developed so slowly that we thought those were "phases" that would go away. Side effects were just as everyone else reported: nightmares, fears, depression/sadness (we even went to a child psychologist since we thought this behavior was all due to father's deployment), aggressiveness, crying at the drop off a hat (like a 2 year old, not age appropriate), attention deficit, school performance dropped, and also, at the very end, obsessive compulsive behavior.
We stopped Singulair as soon as we heard about the FDA investigation (on NPR, about 6 to 7 weeks ago). Asthma has not worsened, thank goodness, so we make due with the Flovent for now. Most of the side effects were less prominent after some time, however the obsessive compulsive behavior stopped only a few days ago. We have better days, we have worse days, but slowly the better days outnumber the bad, aggressive, and negative ways.
What I read again and again in the postings is that we all assumed our children entered a bad "phase." A phase that just got worse and never ended!
Reading about the very same side effects in our children, over and over again, alarmed me. Taking my son off the Singulair and seeing the improvements, some faster some slower, totally convinced me. I will never ever have Singulair in my house again.
March 23th
2007
8:24 AM
I have been on prozac for over a year and i feel good.... I LOVE THIS DRUG nfg;odfzkjgoljrkmnerfvuineriugnm4o.erijfvoimoerkgnviknvionmglkrejmgvoimoltjnkbrltsmbvolrmfvbl,fdmbvpotrmboijmrtoklmvfdmbp;ltrkmbkpotrikmbpotrhmbprlg,mb;lgm,pr;tkmb,poykrm;lb,v;b,lrhmopknmrgojnbotrjpo,rfg[l,efv;l,b;trljmhpiojgmrklvm.,mbpreokglr.,gp[kre[gl,;.v,l/ervfd
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Singulair (2) Mirena (1) Prozac (1) Aciphex (1) Depo-Provera Contraceptive (1)
August 16th
2008
12:20 AM
Coming back 2 1/2 months later... I Feel NORMAL again everything I had b4 is Gone now the only thing that is not is the floaters in my vision that may be unrelated or might still go away
I'm so happy I decided to remove it, I now want to have sex & guess what No More Pain!!! yippee
GL to everyone
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