Pharmist symptoms and conditions

A couple of years ago had chest pains then i a saw cardiologist, I was fine, Norvac side affect. If your legs hurt check to see if your ankles are swollen it they are you are retaining water. Water retention= water around your heart, let your doctor know right away, get additional water pill to remove excess fluid. Use to be in the Medical Profession. If in doubt call Dr. and Pharmist(knows better than Dr., he knows meds)

My daughter is 12 years old and was diagnosed late last year with exercise and/or stress induced asthma. She had a severe asthma attack at school. I was hesitant about taking her to the ped, as she had never had an attack before. She has always had allergy problems, I guess it is typical to where we live. The pediatrician put her on singulair and she uses a rescue inhaler, ProAir. The doc gave me a months worth of sample tabs to give to her to see if it would improve her wheezing and coughing. IT WORKED! The tabs they gave me were 10mgs. Because it was all new to us, sometimes we missed a dose or two, but her symptoms improved, but she also experienced headaches, nausea, complained of her mouth hurting, especially in the mornings and she couldn't sleep (these symptoms we noticed after seven days of being on the meds). I read the pamphlet for side affects and these were typical side affects, not to be alarmed right? By the time we made it through the all the tabs she started with some behaviors you might expect to be normal for pre-teens and some that were alarming. Most parents know their children very well, especially behaviors. My pre-treen was a very loving and agreeable child and never had outbursts of anger that was uncalled for. To make a long story short, I didn't fill the prescription because of the above stated behaviors. Within about eight days, my child was back, but so was the wheezing and the coughing and the picking her up from school three times a week because of her asthma, so back to the doctor we went again. They wrote the prescription for singulair 10mgs and I got it filled. A very interesting thing happened when I went and filled the prescription. The pharmacist told me that the doctor was prescribing too high of a dose for my child, that the 10mg dose is usually given to adults and not children. So I cut the tabs in half and started her back on the meds. She has been on them for almost three weeks now and it has of course helped the wheezing and the coughing but we are back to not sleeping, angry outbursts (probably from not sleeping) and not wanting to go anywhere or do anything with her family or friends. When I saw the news about singulair it really scared me, because I love my child and I don't want anything bad to happen to her. I called the doctors office, our doctor was out, the nurse said for me to not give her the meds for the rest of weekend until I can talk to her doctor on Monday. I will update you all of what our pediatrician has to say.

I was on 200 mg/day of topamax for migraines. It did lessen the frequency and severity of the migraines. I lost 20 lbs and looked great. I felt horrible. I was suicidal and paranoid, cried frequently and thought that I was going to die. I was very tired, probably due to the topamax and the fact I was only eating about 500 cal per day on a good day, I was only rarely hungry and then would feel full after a few bites. I loved being thin, but was too tired to enjoy my life. I'm a nurse and couldn't remember anything, so I wrote everything down. My husband said that talking to me was like playing charades, because I couldn't remember the words for what I wanted to say. People would talk to me and my comprehension was very poor - it was like they were talking in another language that I didn't understand very well. I had always been sharp and quick witted, but on Topamax I was lost in a brain fog. I went off the drug under an MD's care. It took a while to feel like my old self, but life is now normal.

I was considering going back on it to lose the weight I put back on, but after reading all the other posts, I realize it's just not worth it. No, not everyone experiences all the awful side effects, but the side effects are not rare and some of them are horrifying. One of my friends who went on it couldn't even remember her children's names and she was on just 25 mg. I think this drug can make you feel like you are dying - just like a cancer patient at end stage. You don't want to eat, there is little enjoyment in life, your brain is foggy like you've been going through chemo and you feel incredibly sad as if you're going to die.

My advice would be to use the drug only if absolutely necessary. Try acupuncture, other migraine meds or seizure medications before this one. If you are taking it and notice that you are having extreme side effects, ask your doctor to be taken off it. If you can take it and the only side effects you get are a little pins and needles and an aversion to soda, go for it! But please note if you have strong emotional changes and try to eat healthy while on topamax.

My name is Logan and I am a health care worker. I started taking Lipitor a bout a year and a half ago. I only took it for approx. one month. I do not usually take medication of any sorts. I got fooled into taking the drug. It was not explained to me the side effects. I started hurting in my Rt. elbow. I was then said to have tennis elbow. Because of the work that I do. I have never had pain before. I had cortazone shot and it lasted for a few months. I have sinse then gradually got my stregnth back to being able to raise my arm without being in pain. I have sinse then been taking alovera juice daily. I have no pain, and I stay off drugs.
I also have a sister that had been taking the same medication for approx a year and a half and she is curently in the I.C.U from a tumor that formed in her stomach and was removed a year ago. She has the supposedly rareist form of sacarma. I talked to a person in the waiting room and she was there for her dying father, but said that she had an operation three weeks ago of sacarma. and she also lost her Lt. kidney just like my sister. I was courious, so I asked her if she was on any colestrol lowering medication. she said that she was on Lipitor for 2 years and is still on it. She said that she was also a Pharmist. She said that it was not the Lipitor. I beg the difference. I would like to know how many others out here that has problems like this. Will they just continue to cover it up?