October 16th
2008
7:29 PM
i have a son who is 2 years old and suffers from asthma. we have been prescribed the singular 4mg tablet, when i read the possible and common side affects i started wondering if it was really going to benefit him.. now that i have read most of these posts i'm really starting to think it would be best to not try him on them.
if anyone has any helpful advice PLEASE reply back to me
June 12th
2004
8:30 PM
Those of you who are suffering from muscle achiness should tell your doctors that this is now a recognized side-effect of statins. An article published in the October 1, 2002 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine concluded "Some patients who develop muscle symptoms while receiving statin therapy have demonstrable weakness and histopathologic findings of myopathy despite normal serum creatine kinase levels." Similar problems are recognized by the American College of Cardiology, the American Heart Association adn the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. Their findings are cited in Jane Brody's column in the New York Times (December 10, 2002).
I experienced intense muscle achiness in my legs while on generic lovastatin. Interestingly, for me, this disappeared when I switched to Lipitor.
January 3th
2009
11:28 AM
I wrote a post few days ago about Singulair and how great my daughter is doing since she started to take this medication three months ago.
Then I started reading about all the side effects that other children had because of Singulair. I GOT SO SCARED!
So scared that last night I stopped giving Singulair to my daughter.
From January to September my daughter had asthma every other week. She was put on steroids (prednisolone) every time she couldn't breath. Then in September the pulmonologist said we have to take control of the situation because so much steroids can damage a little body.
She made me feel I had been a terrible mothers since I always refused to give her singulair.
She convinced me and then I started Singulair, but now I feel worst because I have the feeling I am giving poison to my daughter even if her asthma is under control.
My 7 years old stopped Singulair 12 hours ago, I do not know what is going to happen now. Of course I cannot call the pulmonologist anymore in case my ds gets bad.
Somebody here said that she is giving her son Nordic Naturals Fish Oil, Culturelle probiotics, vitamin c, and changing his diet - increased magnesium and decreased dairy.I will love to have more information about this alternative way of controlling asthma. I do not remember who wrote this post. If there is a web site of a doctor I can contact i will do right away. I live in New York.
I need help. Thank you so much.
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