Scream symptoms and conditions

I'm so glad I'm not alone. I was diagnosed with Crohn's disease in July 2008, so I was placed on really strong medication the cut the effect of my current BC to 50%. So I decided to have the Mirena placed. It was placed Jan. 2009. A few weeks later, I experienced tenderness and swelling in both my breast. I went to see my GYN and she said it was normal and it should subside soon, but she sent me for an UltraSound to make sure. The results showed that my milk ducts were dilated. (And I was not Pregnant) A few months later I was experiencing severe depression, mood swings,bloating, facial acne, cramps, but the worst one of them all was the itching in my breast. Not to mention the 25 lb weight gain and my breast doubled in size. I would eat at any given time and had cravings. I felt like I was pregnant all the time. When I mentioned the itching to my doctor, she said I needed to see a dermatologist. I saw one the same day, and he also said he thinks it's the hormones in the Mirena. So I had it removed today. I hope everything goes back to normal.....

I have itching,burning,discharge,cramping that makes me wanna scream....and the itching is so bad i want to peel my skin off.i have severe sleepiness even after a nights rest an i will get tired an fall asleep any where but that could be my severe anemia but the pill makes me too sick and depo is toooooo much weight gain and the patch is discontinued up here but i need something for my heavy uncontrollable periods what should i do?.....J.

Our 2 yr old son was prescribed Singulair for allergies by his ENT. He did great for a month. then started waking up more often at night, talking in his sleep. Never a fussy child unless he was sick- suddenly whining, protesting, acting out of character. Screaming when he didn't get his way. I threw away the pills the night he woke with a blood-curdling scream climbing the walls in his room- hallucinating that there were bugs crawling in his room. His pupils were dilated, heart was pounding and he was scared to death. A friend warned me early on, told me of her daughters behavior problems from the drug and told me of this website. She is doing great on Allegra. My son was to go off the Singulair in a couple weeks of our stopping the drug anyway, hoping he wont need any further treatment.

I finally had the Mirena IUD removed on March 24, 2009. The drive home, I could even feel the anxiety leaving my body. Although that night I did experience high fever and flu like symptoms. They were horrible, I was shaking, cold, and just felt awful. The symptoms however, were gone by the next morning.

It has only been three weeks, but I have been able to start breathing better, not completely gone, but it will take time. I however, don't want to hide from society, scream at people, and I just feel much happier. It is a slow road to getting rid of all the medications, and hormones in my body. So I would suggest to anyone, about a week after removing, do a body cleanse at least for three days. I do the Master Cleanser, it works great.

I am on the road to being myself again! My husband has noticed, and my daughter doesn't get yelled at that much, she's only 2.

More to come as time goes by

Hi everyone...I have had Mirena out for almost 2 weeks now and I am back to my normal self already!!! I haven't lost any weight yet but I know that will come off in time. I, too, am on YAZ and love it so far. I have my phone set to calendar so I remember to take the pill every day or else I will definitely forget.

The best part about being back to my normal self is that I am enjoying my children again. I don't treat them like slaves, yell/scream at them for no reason, or want to be away from them. There has been a remarkable difference in them as well. They are not so whiney and they have more fun with each other. A benefit to that is that my 6 year old who asked me a few months ago if there were any extra chores she could around the house is cuddling with me on a daily basis. She wouldn't do that at all before. She is doing better in school too. My 3 year old is listening better too. I love my girls!!!

So, I am more than happy that I got my Mirena out and equaly grateful that my doctor (who happens to be a man and a new doctor) didn't try to convince me to keep it in.

New life and new me, here I come.

I started on Yasmin last December and became moody, nervous and depressed. I get nausea, and piercing headaches.I am having shortness of breath and am tired all the time and scream for no reason at my daughter. my shoulders, neck and back are aching all the time and I feel very stressed.
I stopped yesterday, cause it's not worth it.

i got mirena 2 weeks ago, since then i've experienced all the side effects..the worst is i've become so depressed that my fiance' is scared to death i'm going to hurt myself...my depression is broken up by periods of extreme anxiety..i'm afraid this is destroying my relationship..i am normally a happy person who likes to have fun and now all i do is cry and scream at people for no reason...and sometimes i have to fight hard to keep it from getting physical. I am now in the process of getting it removed because the mood swings are scaring me..not to count all the back pain, acne....and i work out and keep gaining weight..my fiance' and i are now looking into other forms of contraceptive....if anyone has any hints as to how to get over this or what else may work...please email me ****** any advice is welcome.

I was prescribed Levaquin in Feb./March for 30 days. I have had tremendous pain in my heels since then. I am walking slower as every joint and muscle in my body hurts. I can barely stoop down and it is getting worse. I can not sleep. I thought I was just going through some depression and stress until I started reading about it in the WSJ and now realize I fit many of the symptoms being discussed.
We all need to take some action as this is only going to get worse for everyone.
FDA?????????????????

Hopefully this will prove to the doubters that there are genetic reasons for the variation of efficacy and adverse side effective when taking Montelukast.

I have several areas of concern (concerned citizen is concerned). One of the main areas is the reliability of Montelukast due to differences in genetics among populations. The cysLT1 (Singulair) receptor is a GENE. As I said before, it would be possible to predict those patients for which Montelukast would and would not be effective and those patients whose gene expression profile would cause them to have unwanted side effectives.

I have been looking for a way to give reasonable proof of that which could be used to convince your doctors that Montelukast is not for everybody. I happened to locate a researcher who had invented and patented methods for predicting drug sensitivity and efficacy in inflammatory disease. I have quoted below from his patent application. He intended to provide a method for determining efficacy and drug sensitivity for pharmaceuticals which include leukotriene antagonists - Montelukast.

Quoted from:

Methods for predicting drug sensitivity in patients afflicted with an inflammatory disease
US Patent Issued on December 12, 2006

Methods are disclosed for predicting the efficacy of a drug for treating an inflammatory disease in a human patient, including: obtaining a sample of cells from the patient; obtaining a gene expression profile of the sample in the absence and presence of in vitro modulation of the cells with specific cytokines and/or mediators; and comparing the gene expression profile of the sample with a reference gene expression profile, wherein similarities between the sample expression profile and the reference expression profile predicts the efficacy of the drug for treating the inflammatory disease in the patient.

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The field of pharmacogenomics measures differences in the effect of medications that are caused by genetic variations. Such differences are manifested by differences in the therapeutic effects or adverse events of drugs. For most drugs, the genetic variations that potentially characterize drug-responsive patients from non-responders remain unknown.
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In another embodiment, the invention is directed to a method for predicting the efficacy in a human asthma patient of leukotriene antagonists including, but not limited to, montelukast (a.k.a., SINGULAIR™; Merck, Whitehouse Station, N.J.), zafirlukast (a.k.a., ACCOLATE™, AstraZeneca, Wilmington, Del.), and zileuton (a.k.a., ZYFLO™; Abbott Laboratories, Chicago, Ill.), comprising: obtaining a sample of cells from the patient; obtaining a gene expression profile from the sample in the absence and presence of in vitro modulation of the cells with specific mediators; and comparing the gene expression profile of the sample with a reference gene expression profile, wherein similarity in expression profiles between the sample and reference profiles predicts the efficacy in the human asthmatic patient of leukotriene antagonists.

Many of the cells involved in causing airway inflammation are known to produce signaling molecules within the body called "leukotrienes." Leukotrienes are responsible for causing the contraction of the airway smooth muscle, increasing leakage of fluid from blood vessels in the lung, and further promoting inflammation by attracting other inflammatory cells into the airways. Oral anti-leukotriene medications have been introduced to fight the inflammatory response typical of allergic disease. These drugs are used in the treatment of chronic asthma. Recent data demonstrates that prescribed anti-leukotriene medications can be beneficial for many patients with asthma, however, a significant number of patients do not respond to anti-leukotriene drugs.

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The genes selected are those that have been determined to be differentially expressed in either a disease, drug-responsiveness, or drug-sensitive cell relative to a normal cell and confer power to predict the response to the drug. By comparing tissue samples from patients with these reference expression profiles, the patient's susceptibility to a particular disease, drug-responsiveness, or drug-resistance can be determined.

http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/7148008-description.html

The inventor's website: Hakon Hakonarson M.D. The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

http://stokes.chop.edu/research/profiles/?ID=251

My son was on Singulair for 4 years the start of an absolute nightmare,but never did i make the connection,i read the pamphlets i read the side affects i told my doctor,but we were hung out to dry to figure it out for ourselves,I have taken him to countless professionals,who always ask List your medications,I have cried in there offices i have begged for help.I ended up taking things into my own hands ,taking him out of school, home schooling and changing our families life to accommodate his sleeping difficulties and feelings of complete in adacy plz someone tell me this will get better, tell me this is the answer,finally when i talked to his pmd i was told to stop giving him the drug immediately

My fifteen year old son—all star athlete, good student, always following the rules has been through hell and back with this too, and is still feeling the stigma. After being on Singulair about 6 months, he started hearing and seeing things. He woke the whole house up one night with a blood-curdling scream. We immediately sought help and i started investigating the side-effects of Singulair. Every doctor we spoke too, Primary care, Allergy specialist, and 2 psychiatrists, discounted my theory that the Singulair might be causing all this. He did express having depressed emotions and thoughts of suicide. This kid had no previous pre-existing conditions that would account for these symptoms. Thank god the Psychs ruled out schizophrenia, which was what we were all afraid of, including my very intuitive son. I NOW FEEL LIKE I HAVE TO DO SOMETHING. This is so wrong. I tried to speak up about it and was swept under the rug many times. Please tell me if there are lucrative organizations i can report this too. My kids has been emotionally injured from this drug and it seems there are many more that have actually years from their childhood.

Effexor did work for my depression, but it did give me a lot of side effects. One for instance that was horrible is when I drank alcohol. My friends indicated to me the next day that I became a different person when I drank. The worst was that I couldn't remember a thing the next day what happened the night before! Also, when I was trying to get off the medication after being on it for a year it also gave me the WORST nightmares. I was yelling and screaming in my sleep. I dreaded going to bed every night because of the horrible dreams I was having.

I was on 1000mg per day 500 in the morning and 500 at night. I had one or two episodes of flushing and if it was not for this site I would have gone to the Emergency Room because the burning of my skin was so severe that I was in a panic. I found this site and it calmed me a bit. After the flushing comes the itching. For me it is on the inside of the legs starting on the ankles and then the toes and then it moves slowly up the legs and sometimes hits the thighs. Sometimes it hits the underside of my upper arm. This was mild and tolerable and went away in a couple of days.

Now I have been moved to 2000mg per day and the flushing is under control, but the itching has gone out of control. I cannot deal with the itching. I sit in business meetings and want to scream. I find myself at my desk with my shoes and socks off rubbing my feet and ankles because it is intolerable. I have broken the skin many times and bleed from the scratching. I am intelligent enough to know not to scratch, but sometimes it just gets the better of me.

I have no idea what triggers this because I can count on it lasting three to four days and then it goes away again.

I've been on the NuvaRing for about a year. And I'm quiting this week.
This has been the worse year of my life and did not know until this past week that it had to do with the NuvaRing. I started looking up side effects & reviews of the NR because I was getting worse and the Nuva Ring is the only medication I take. I'm glad I started looking stuff up. My side effects I have been having I can not live with any longer.
They are:
The day before and the first day of each period I always have the following symptoms - Sever leg aches that only heat can help ease (but not get rid of), a lot of pressure in my head, my eyes feeling very heavy, unable to get my words out right, and extreme exhaustion, I usually stay in bed for about 2 days.

I've gained 20 pounds this year,
Very bad depression.
Social Anxiety - (I've always been a people person, but while on the Nuva Ring I could not stand to be around people. It would make me so anxious and I wanted to scream. Thought I was going crazy)
Very Irritable
Frequent Constipation and gas (never had this problem before)
Brown spot on my face
Not able to sleep through the night
Breast increase by 1 cup size (but no soreness)
Lack of energy all of the time
NO SEX DRIVE, I've got the best husband in the world, but for some reason it makes me not even want to be touched.
My allergies/sinuses have been worse than ever since I've been on the Nuva Ring.
Hair loss

I just thought that my life had gone really bad and that I was losing my mind. Once I started looking up reviews of the Nuva Ring I found that a lot of woman are having these same symptoms.
I've read that some women have pain with sex..... the little my husband and I have had sex, it wasn't painful. At least that part was good. ha ha
I'm thankful to have an understanding husband that is standing by me and is taking care of me as I go off the ring.

I DO NOT recommend anyone to use the Nuva Ring.
The only thing it did good for me was make my periods a lot lighter.
I think I will go back to dealing with heavy periods and clotting. At least I'll be normal the rest of the month. (I'll just pray that my periods will be good)

I was on this for about 9 months. When I first started it, it was soooo much better than my previous B/C (Ortho Micronor. I had a migrane and nausea nearly every night for a year, but I was breastfeeding at the time so this was my best option then)

So when I first started this I was so relieved that I didn't feel sick and felt pretty normal. After a few months my relationship started to get worse & worse. Everything my boyfriend did irritated me and I'd pick fighs with him all the time. I'd cry at the drop of a hat, and I'd scream and yell when I was mad (I am usually a very soft spoken person) A couple people actually said they were concerned and thought I was depressed.

Along with the emotional side effects, I started spotting in the middle of the month, and my periods were over a week long. For two weeks out of the month I was either spotting or on my period. (I tried just leaving the ring in to skip periods but I always bled anyway) I had 2 yeast infections in two months; both started a couple days after I inserted the nuvaring.

I threw out my nuvaring after my last yeast infection in July and decided to go hormone free for a while. Sure enough my moods improved, my relationships improved, my periods were more regular, and no more painful yeast infections.

The nuvaring was a great idea in theory, but the wrong mix of hormones for me.

Everyone is saying how they have or will get off lisinopril. This is a dangerous approach unless your doctor approves. What other BP drugs are considered safe with minimal side effects? After 3 days of lisinopril usage, I woke up this morning feeling very hyper inside. No outward shakes or anything like that. I NEED to take BP medicine so what are the alternatives? I'm 64, not overweight. Diuretics kept my BP in the normal range but the side effects of HCTZ kept getting worse until I had to change medication. If lisinopril is so bad why do so many doctors prescribe it?

I have been on Apri since July 07' and the first 2 months were terrible. I have never had such bad mood swings in my life, I would cry if someone looked at me wrong, and the urge to scream at people is crazy, I have a 7 year old daughter and a 10 year old step son and I have been unable to treat them with the quality that they need, I have been getting mad at them for the littlest things and they are things that they should not even be getting trouble for. My husband is going crazy because if he tries to talk to me about serious things I start crying. I get very gassy and bloated all the time, I have changed my diet and that has only made it worse. I have been on so many bcps because of serious side effects and I am starting to feel like a lab rat. I am just starting the new yaz that has came out, I am starting it today I really hope that I have better results. The only thing that I liked about the Apri was the fact that I didn't gain weight. One more thing the periods were so painful, I have never had this much pain with a period, and I have a past with ovarian cysts and I normally have really painful periods, but with this pill it was way worse. I hope this helps anyone that is deciding a bcp for themselves.

I have been taking Levothyroxin (Synthroid generic) for about 5 months. I started on a low dosage and have been taking 75 mcg (which turned out to be the right dosage. I turned 59 years old in July and I had been gaining weight.Nothing startling--a few pounds a years that added up to about 50 pounds over time..I am losing weight now. The side effect I am most concerned about is a an inarticulateness I seem to have developed since I started taking the medication.I can't sepak civilly to my son who also turned 20 in July. I just want to scream at him all the time.

Is this a side effect of Synthroid? I don't think I have been losing my hair, fortunately, but it is dry and brittle...

I did a six month stint of the Lupron shots as a treatment for severe endometriosis. The entire experience was horrible. At first I was sick to my stomach for days on end. This fluctuated on and off for the duration. Shortly after my mom started noticing intense fluctuations in my mood. I don't know that there is any way to describe it other than I felt like I was going crazy. All I wanted to do was rage and scream and fight for reason what so ever. I was also extremely lethargic for long periods of time. When the lethargy finally wore off I would be so manic that I would have overwhelming attacks of anxiety. About one month into the treatment my hair started falling out in clumps. By the time the treatment was over I had lost half the thickness of my hair. I was so miserable that my own family didn't want to be around me.

I just took my 5th shot last week. The hot flashes are terrible some days and hardly noticeable others. Some times I just want to scream in anger for no reason. I feel like I'm hypersensitive to everything. I don't want to cry, I just want to lash out in anger. I've got one dose after this and am praying that it will have been worth it to have some relief from the endometriosis.

I was on 30 mg of remeron for 7 months for depression. This drug is a nightmare! Severe cravings for sweets, and an unsatified hunger that nothing seemed to please me at night, munched about anything. I gained weight and slept through about anything at all. 3 months ago I developed a constant anger/rage feeling, and I was ready to take on anybody who crossed me. Sometimes I even became violent, I would break things, scream and yell at my BF for no reasons at all. BF left a few times, and friends stopped coming around. I felt like I was going insane. I would be happy one minute, and then either angry or sad and crying for no reason at all. I have started to ween myself off this drug for 8 weeks. I DO NOT recommend remeron.

My 20 month old son was perscribed Omnicef for a persistant ear infection. Two days after he started the medication, our sweet little boy turned into the Demon Child, that wouldn't eat, wouldn't drink, wouldn't sleep, would scream with terror, or pain every 20 minutes...

He had loose stools as well, but since he wouldn't eat or drink that only happened about once a day.

We took him to the hospital and they ran tests, but could find anything wrong, "It must be the pain of the ear infection..."

My wife and I were going crazy with him, and didn't know what else to do but love him and not try to kill each other from lack of sleep.

About a day after the medication was finished he started to eat again, and within 48 hours he was sleeping though the night. As a matter of fact he could not get enough to eat. He was going to gain back the 5 pounds he lost ASAP.

The real kick in the pants is that he still had an ear infection in both ears and ended getting tubes in his ears two weeks later.

We are taking the precaution to never let him take cephalosporin derivatives again.

I can't believe that the manufacturer of this drug does not list these behavioral reactions in the small print. It would have saved us a lot of heartache if we had known and could have discontinued the drug.

My 5 year old daughter has been having meltdowns, she will cry and scream for up to 1 hour and she doesn't know why. She has been depressed and has been talking about hurting herself! She has been on it for years. I was shocked that the Zyrtec was causing this and her doctor never mentioned these side effects!

My 3 year old son has had many sinus problems over the past two years. He had his tonsils out last August along with tubes in his ears and removal of his adenoids. He still has constant drainage from his eyes and nose so he has been on Zyrtec for about a year without any side effects. About 3 weeks ago his ENT suggested singulair to help with all the sinus drainage that just won't go away. I just related it to a number of problems he has experienced in the past 3 weeks. My son has delayed speach and does not communicate well. He kept complaining of a tummy ache and we went to our family practitioner and "it's just a stomach bug". I also noticed that he has been waking up during the night and getting into bed with us. I know he has been having more dreams, but He is not able to tell us if they are nightmares. Just tonight when I was putting him in the bathI noticed a rash around the base of his penis and he would scream if we tried to examine him. I am sure that it is Candida Albicans and that is when I googled Singulair and Candidiasis and found all the other side affects that are on this site and others.

I don't think my last post went through...my 22 mo old was given omnicef for pneumonia 2 days ago - the very first night he woke up screaming like crazy, lasted off an on for an hour or so, maybe more. He is NOT a sleep terror toddler and never has had sleep problems. The next day he did the same thing when waking up from his nap, the screaming and crankiness lasted about 30-45 min. It is now 2am and he's been doing it off and on for an hour again. My husband is with him and I am reading every one else's posts with the same effects on their kids. I just went over the omnicef website with a fine tooth comb - NOTHING on this side effect - it's rediculous. This is found on the internet by too many people making these middle of the night posts - i'd probably recomend they put a little more money into research and figure out what in the world is going on and why so many people are having the same experience. I'll be calling my doctor in the morning! He has also been really crabby since starting it - he'll just scream and 'freak out' at the drop of a hat - kind of like terrible 2's X 10 - and he was not previously like that either.