Medication works symptoms and conditions

for the people that have taken their children off singulair...
what are you using for a preventative med?
my daughter has really bad asthma and I don't know of any alternatives

I just spent the last 4 days in the hospital due to "status migrainosus" (a severe migraine that can only be treated by hospitalization/IV. I never had a migraine until 2 years ago when I was put on Yasmin to treat endometriosis. Since then I have been anxious, extremely emotional, experienced insomnia and had bad migraines. After reading all the comments on this site, I am convinced this is not a safe drug (at least for me) and have stopped taking it.

I don't think I will find much more to research. If you have allergies or asthma, the immune system has become hyper sensitive. But, we cannot allow medications to suppress our immune system in general for the sake of controlling certain symptoms that we are having. Everything in the immune system has a purpose. So good sense would tell us to use as little intervention as possible to keep the entire system running. How to do that is very individual.

If you have a hyper allergic children, read about the immune system first so that you can ask your doctor the questions that you need to ask. Try going to a site that is written for the public.

http://www.howstuffworks.com/immune-system.htm

If your doctor cannot explain how a medication works and only knows that it's FDA approved for asthma or allergies, then on to the next. Any doctor should be able to explain if one part of the immune system is suppressed what happens to the other parts. If you ask the question, what happens to the nasal passages if the receptors are suppressed and the neutrophils don't know that there is an infection? Will my child be more inclined to get sinus and upper respiratory infections? That is just one example.

I'm a 56 year old woman. 5'4" 116. Very fit .Have hypothyroidism and take Synthroid.. Was diagnosed with high blood pressure (which I beleive is due to a too high dose of Synthroid) Was prescribed toprol, just 25 Mgs. Wow!! Was that a bad experience. With the first few days of taking it, began the Foggy brain, dizziness, no ability to concentrate.. no energy.. Head aches, joint pains. Complete lack of interest in doing much of any thing including sex!. Have became almost reclusive because I didn't feel confident interacting with people (I'm a VP of Sales.. not good for my job)! I was bumping into things.. Felt like I was on another planet.. Thought I was nuts... Great to have found this site Also.. Have gain 5 pounds that are not falling off since I stopped this med on my own after only 10 days.. YIKES! Who does this stuff work well for?

Here is my story first. January 2004 I gave birth to my third child. 36 hours later my bp was 220/125 Labatolol made my head tingle so badly it drove me insane, niphedipine made gave me tachycardia, where just standing up my heart rate was 171. HCTZ caused me to have vasculitis. My kidney issues are the main cause of my bp issues, but for the past year and half I have maintained a okay bp. Four days ago for some reason it all changed, My bp was 170/110. My dr put me on Lisinopril and I took my first 10mgs last night. I do have panic attack disorders and me not falling alseep till two am could be why. All the other symptoms you talked about I have already had PRIOR to starting my medication. I have joint issues, I have had a cough, I have GERD, already had loose bowels. I'm praying this medication works and its one that doesn't cause me any ill effects. So far after one day my bp has come down a lot. If I have a hard time sleeping tonight it might have to do with the medication. Until then I can't say anything bad. Also my boyfriends mother is on this, has been on this, and has had NO ill effects from it.

This medication works great! No side effects for me and also no more migrains! It takes them away within 10 min!

I repeat what I've seen here in so many posts. I can't believe it took so long, how did I not realize, my poor child has suffered etc... etc... His side effects were: restless sleep, night mares, NEVER slept through the night. Less and less willing to go to bed at all. Combative, aggressive, began biting, short tempered. Extreme and rapid mood swings, physical, throwing toys and household items. Disinterested in socializing with other children, afraid to be with anyone other than immediately family. Poor self image ("I'm a bad boy"). Plus others.
I have a similar story to many. My 3 year old has been on Singulair for over a year. He had sleep disturbances early on, but the doctor changed the time to administer the dose and it improved... at first. The unfortunate thing I have realized with this medication is that the side effects are gradual and varied. This makes it difficult to make a connection especially in small children. It wasn't until he had a frightening 4 hour night terror episode last week that something clicked, I did a web search, found this website and realized it was probably the singulair. I stopped giving it to him immediately. Within days his behavior improved. Within 2 nights he began sleeping through the night, his personality is completely opposite of what I've dealt with for the last year. He is evolving each day and while I feel guilty for not catching it sooner, I am so elated to watch him shine. I thank all of you for sharing this information, without it I may not have yet realized that my son was suffering.

I contacted the company and they said that all these things have been reported "after marketing" what this means to me is that salespeople can market this to the medical community and not mention theses side effects because they did not occur (or were not documented) during the trial period. I suggest that you share your story with your friends and get the word out. If this medication works for a patient that's great, but I think patients/consumers have the right to know what they may be getting themselves into.

Most people believe that when their doctor writes them a prescription for a generic drug, that their are getting the same medication that they were taking before. This is not true. I work in the medical field and I know for a fact that the reason generic drugs are cheaper is because they are not manufactured with the same controls as the name brands. They work differently. That's why so many people have bad reactions to them and alot of the times they don't even work. Once a medication works for me, I never accept the generic form of it. Alot of doctors won't even write prescriptions for generic drugs. Especially cardiac medications. I took Prilosec for 3 yrs and it worked like a charm. I tried Omeprazole for 1 week and it made me deathly ill. Went back to Prilosec and refused to switch.