She wakes symptoms and conditions

My daughter is 5 years old and has been on singulair for 1 week. i have already noticed a dramatic change in her behavior. she has become irritable, mean, nasty, and emotional. she has had me in tears on a daily basis. she has turned into a monster. we will be calling the doctor in the morning!

My 24 month old daughter was prescribed Omnicef for a sinus infection. She began waking up multiple times in the night screaming. She acts like she is in pain, but won't tell you what hurts. She freaks out when you touch her when she wakes up like that. She also appears to be hallucinating and we're not really sure she is even waking up. She has had 4 doses and now the mood changes have gone into the day hours. We have contacted the doctor and they agree with us that she should stop taking the medication. We cannot confirm the bowel movement side effects because she has not had one in 2 days. We checked the side effects insert from Omnicef last night when things were bad and nothing was on it about nightmares. I understand that not all children react the same to medications, but there are too many with the same reactions to overlook this.

My 32 m.o. daughter had a mucous-y cough for about a year. Then I noticed that her cough was worse when she lays down at night, and after jumping on the trampoline. I (her mom) have asthma, and it runs all through our family. After a bout of the flu early January, where she was hopitalized for 2 days, I talked with her pediatrician about the "asthma-like" qualities she is showing. Dr. prescribed zyrtec along with 4 mg of singulair at bedtime, with a follow up 3 weeks later. Also prescribed ventolin with a spacer, which we havent had to use yet. (I use inhalers regularly.) We followed up with the Dr, and I told her that her cough is pretty much gone now. So we stopped the zyrtec and are on singulair for a few months. The thing is, I have noticed that she is more aggressive and more irritable than her normal self. I dont know whether to attribute it to the "terrible-two's" or the new medicine. She always wants to hit someone or something. And yes, I notice that her night-time sleep patterns are different. She falls asleep great, but she wakes up in the middle of the night (3 or 4 am) and has a hard time gonig back to sleep. It is the agressive behavior that has me worried, because she does not want to listen or be told what to do, and she is hitting other kids at her pre-school. After reading the comments frmo other Moms below, I gues it acutally could be the medicine and not the terrible-two's!

My daughter is going to be 6 yrs. old this month. She has been taking Singulair now for almost a month and for the past 2 and a half weeks has woke up with night terrors. She wakes up an hour to an hour and a half after she falls asleep. She wakes up crying and running around the house like crazy and says she is scared. They have lasted up to 10 minutes at times. Very scary !!!! I have been thinking it was stress until tonight, going on a few of these web sites reading the experiences that other parents are going through with their children on Singulair. The drug has worked wonders with my daughter's breathing and stuffiness...... but these night terrors are bad and my daughter could seriously hurt her self if I don't figure out why they are happening. I am going to take her off for a few days and see if the night terrors continue.... I will be back to report the outcome. I hope it is not the Singulair because she is more energetic and breathing better than she has her whole little life. If it is the Singulair, then I hope I will be able to find something else that works just as well without the "night terrors".

My 5 year old has been on Singulair for about a year now. I too thought it was a wonder drug as it has really kept her asthma under control. She only has seasonal allergy/asthma problems so she isn't on the meds during the summer. While on Singulair she has horrible nightmares. She wakes up 3-4 times a night sometimes she is climbing up the wall screaming. She slept great all summer long only waking up in the night on rare occasions. Now she wakes up constantly. I called & spoke to the nurse she told me she would discuss it with the doctor but didn't feel after looking Singulair up in her drug book it would cause that kind of problem. It has to be a very bizzare coinsidence or the Singulair. We had problems with her sleeping right from the beginning but we didn't connect it to the drug until now.

My mother has talked about her experience with Tamoxifen and she is miserable, I feel that I have to do something for her. She lives in Scotland and of course their treatment is about as good as third world countries.
She called me from overseas asking if there is anything I can do for her, everything she has been given does not help.
She has the most severe eye dryness that she has ever had and she wakes up at night and stays awake because it is so bad, is there anyone who can give me some information on what could help her, I'm willing to try anything!!!!