Good medicine symptoms and conditions

I hope this helps someone.

I was never allergic to anything in my life until I went around this cat at the age of 33. I sneezed and got a really scratchy throat. I thought it would go away, but it turned into a cold. I thought the cold would go away, but it turned into bronchitis and then pneumonia. I was jogging everyday at the time and realized something was wrong when I couldn't finish my run.

I was hospitalized for two days and upon discharge I was stocked up with a cocktail of drugs: Singular, Advair, Albuterol inhaler, and Claritin. Needless to say, I took them all, because I was scared of dying. Thank God I'm not a good medicine taker, because I missed many doses and only took them as needed. I think this is why after 3 years I have only started to see the effects of these meds in the last 8 months.

Okay... I have major joint stiffness(all over) especially neck and fingers, heart palpitations, nervousness, short patience, horrible memory, lack of motivation. Oh my God! The weight gain...Please!

Before this, I was completely healthy. After reading this I will reduce myself to my inhaler and Claritin. I notice they are cool. Otherwise, if I keep my stress level down my breathing does really well. It would probably help if I got rid of the cat. Shhhh...Don't tell anyone. LOL.

I have since put my self on a juice fast using a high powered juicer to cleanse my system of all the trash the doctors gave me.

God bless you all and I speak life and breath into each of our lives.

BreatheWrite.

I hope this helps someone.

I was never allergic to anything in my life until I went around this cat at the age of 33. I sneezed and got a really scratchy throat. I thought it would go away, but it turned into a cold. I thought the cold would go away, but it turned into bronchitis and then pneumonia. I was jogging everyday at the time and realized something was wrong when I couldn't finish my run.

I was hospitalized for two days and upon discharge I was stocked up with a cocktail of drugs: Singular, Advair, Albuterol inhaler, and Claritin. Needless to say, I took them all, because I was scared of dying. Thank God I'm not a good medicine taker, because I missed many doses and only took them as needed. I think this is why after 3 years I have only started to see the effects of these meds in the last 8 months.

Okay... I have major joint stiffness(all over) especially neck and fingers, heart palpitations, nervousness, short patience, horrible memory, lack of motivation. Oh my God! The weight gain...Please!

Before this, I was completely healthy. After reading this I will reduce myself to my inhaler and Claritin. I notice they are cool. Otherwise, if I keep my stress level down my breathing does really well. It would probably help if I got rid of the cat. Shhhh...Don't tell anyone. LOL.

I have since put my self on a juice fast using a high powered juicer to cleanse my system of all the trash the doctors gave me.

God bless you all and I speak life and breath into each of our lives.

BreathWrite.

If you are taking this medicine, STOP! I took this medicine for about three months. I started to feel like I had a congestion. I cough lightly at first then into a hard cough which progressed into a hacking. My wife thought I was critically ill. I was spitting up clear congestion at work into my garbage can. This stuff is bad, I found this site and stopped taking the medicine. It took 3 week for the cough to subside. It’s been about 4 months, and I would say I am only about 98 percent back to where I started . About every 3 weeks I out of the blue start to slightly hack. I know one thing this is not a good medicine. When I started my BP was 138/109. My doctor told me to try this. Because of this medicine I could not do my job and my doctor never told me it was the medicine. When I told him he told me he didn’t think it was the medicine and prescribe some cold medicine

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 just come across this website and I am so upset. My 10 year old daughter has been on Singulair for 8 years. Since she was 2 years old. About 3 years ago I spoke to her pediatrician about the fact that I was concerned that she had been on it for so long and about the possible long term side effects. She brushed me off and told me that there weren't any.

Over the years she has complained often of stomach aches and pains. We even had her on Miralax for a couple years because the Dr. was sure it was constipation. The last couple of years she has been complaining of leg cramps and I sort of brushed that off as "growing pains."

She is extremely emotional and has serious mood swings. I even asked her Dr. about ADD and she said it was just her personality. I am almost in tears typing this because I have no way of knowing if her actions are because of her age, her personality, or because of this medication. She has been on it for so long that I wouldn't know what her personality would be if she had never taken it.

Her asthma tends to be seasonal and she hasn't had an attack in years. I took her off the meds as soon as I read about the disturbing side effects that hit too close to home. I am upset that her Dr. never warned me about these side effects (that were not listed on the label) and didn't take my concerns seriously.

She is very small for her age and I was concerned that the medication may have stunted her growth....little did I know there were so many other dangerous side effects. I just hope and pray that she doesn't suffer any long term negative effects from this medication that I have given her, thinking I was helping her.

My son is 8 and he has been on singulair for at least three years, maybe four. When I heard about the side effects a few weeks ago, I stopped his medication right away. I have since learned that it should be tapered off, but won't put him back on to do that. He had so many of the depression, I hate myself, everybody hates me, facial tic, stomach ache symptoms . . . Now he is almost two weeks off of singulair and he is throwing screaming fits, kicking, threatening, uncontrollable for up to two hours and more! Is this a side effect of coming off of the medication? Has anyone else had this experience? Please email me at amy-weaver4@sbcglobal.net - I'd really like to hear if anyone else has experienced these symptoms. Thank you! Amy

so far i like it, but me being on this med does this mean I'm bipolar?? doc said i was not but thinking he thought i would freak if i was... Also he gave me a sample pack, I have great insurance but what is the cost of this med??

I thought I was the only one feeling strange about this medication until I came upon this website that had more than 26 pages of blogs about this!!!! I used to take 25 MGS of Atenol-ol until I requested my Nurse Practioner to adjust my medications because I thought the medication was not helping me. Big mistake!!! I was asked to take Lisinopryl/HCTZ on Friday and immediately on Sunday, I started to develop skin rashes in my ears, neck and hands. It looked pretty much like a bad sunburn and it was itchy. That night I called the advise nurse and was asked to stop the medication. At first I thought that I was having allergic reaction to HCTZ because I had one in the past so when a new prescription was filled, they gave me only Lisinopryl 20 MGS. I decided to cut the medicine in half and would only take 10 MGS BUT inspite of this, the first 2 days I took it, I started having difficulty in breathing and it felt like someone was holding my heart. This experience brought me to the emergency room where I was checked and given an EKG which turned out normal. That day I was asked to visit my medical provider. I really thought my medication was going to be changed, but guess what, I was asked to CONTINUE taking Lisinopryl 10MGS with Atenol-ol 25 MGS because "Lisinopry is such a good medicine" according to my doctor. I followed her advise for only ONE DAY and my rashes persisted. On top of that, I started feeling my demeanor changing -- I was not as alert; I felt I have to make extra effort to do things in order to do it right and I keep on forgetting things which I don't usually do. I was really scared because I felt that my quality of life was being challenged! I saw this website and I found out I was NOT ALONE. Thanks to all of you bloggers I have STOPPED taking Lisinopryl and just went back to taking Atenol-ol like I used to with intentions of having another appointment with my Nurse Practioner to just raise the dose of the Atenol-ol because my body can take this medication. In the end it is OUR BODY and we should all listen to what it's saying to us! I am doing lifestyle changes now. By God's Grace I know that eventually I will overcome this! God Bless All of You!!!!

My 8 year old boy was recently prescribed Singulair by his doctor, last summer he also put him on it for about a month, he developed a cough which would not go away right after being put on the medication, as soon as he stopped taking it, the cough seemed to disappear. When his doctor wanted to put him back on it I was a little surprised and I reminded him of what happened last year, he said it was a good medicine and being that he is a little older it would be fine. He has been on it for 6 days and my husband and I both have noticed that he has been very emotional and has had several episodes of crying, and acting out of sorts. He is normally a very laid back well behaved boy. I decided to look up the side effects and came across this website and could not believe what I was reading. Just this morning he came downstairs and told me that he had a terrible nightmare, and tonight he was complaining that his knees were hurting real bad, he is not a complaining type of kid, this is all that I need to see, we will deal with his viral asthma without singulair, I feel betrayed, I think that parents should be aware of these side effects, I thank god that he has only been on it for a few days.

All you are Hypochondriacs. If one person says this medicine is causing this, then of course; you all have the same problem "some how." Isn't this weird? It is called the "placebo effect." Normally all the people involved in the testing are given "Lisinopril" (or some other drug), then the placebo group is given a vitamin supplement, the group receving the vitamin supplement is being told they are receving "Lisinopril." Mysteriously?, the "placebo group" is all feeling better and their symptoms are gone. This is due to the fact that all these people in the "placebo group" have interacted with eachother and have told eachother "I feel better" than of course everybody feels better. So WEIRD!! So, my point is this forum is all your peoples "placebo group." If you guys never heard of these side effects from this forum you would have never experinced them. Hypochondriacs all of you are. This is a very good medicine that is helping all of you make up for your peoples lack of self-disipline to control your diet or exercise enough to lower your blood pressure naturally. So be thankful. Lets not complain about false side effects because John has them. I wonder what the side-effects of that cheese burger are that caused high blood pressure. It is funny, I don't see a forum for that. So deal with your so called "side-effects" that are associsted with "Lisinopril" or go on a diet people. Get over it!!

I started taking Glucophage about 2 months ago. The first 2 to 3 weeks were hell... as far as the no appetite, dirreaha, and extreme feelings of naseua goes. But I stuck with it...thanks to a little herbal remedying of my own... cough cough... I was able to eat and get over the naseua. Well after the first few weeks were over...I started to not feel sick anymore. I feel fine, very seldom do I feel sick to my stomache anymore. I think once your body gets used to the changes...that's when you can fully appreciate the positive sides. All in all, I would say this i sa good medicine for me, and it is helping me reach a healthy weight. I have lost maybe 15 pounds since starting it. Good luck sticking through the first few weeks of treatment! It's worth it!

Hmmm...interesting that I found your posts. I too am on 100mg Topral for heart palps (PVCs) and high blood pressure. I'm hesitant to ask to come off of it because it has been keeping both under control. However, I have been having symptoms for a while now that I actually have been wondering is hypothyroidism but sure sounds a lot like what I see posted here. I sometimes get unexplained rashes (mostly on my calves); my skin is much drier than it used to be; my hair is dry and thinning; I'm VERY tired most of the time and have ENORMOUS trouble getting out of bed in the mornings. Another very big problem is that I'm gaining weight faster than I ever have. I think it's a good medicine -- but -- if these symptoms are related, I might consider something different.