Welcome to medications.com

I also just heard about the Singulair side effects. I am a 58-ye...

Posted at 9:16 AM on Mar 28, 2008 by jbrooks, #28541
I also just heard about the Singulair side effects. I am a 58-year-old female with recurrent sinus infection and general allergic reactions. I had testing at my ENT's last spring--I was allergic to nothing specific. It was thought that I am generally sensitive to lots of different things. Well, the ENT put me on Singulair and I never put two and two together until now--- I became extremely anxious and depressed, couldn't sleep, my legs were so restless at night that it was unreal. I also had frequent urination and bladder spasms, low pelvic pain, etc. Over the winter, I stopped taking the Singulair and gradually was able to get off Lunesta and an anti-depressant. These were the worst months of my life---I went through all kinds of urinary and gyne testing to no avail. The urologist couldn't give me any answer---just that he though it might be a neurological issue so I also spent a lot of time and $ getting CT scans and MRI's to no avail. I really thought I was losing my mind---it was half a year during which I was definitely not my usual healthy, upbeat self. I will never touch Singular again!
REPLY TO THIS POSTING | Send Private Mail | Add as friend | Flag as inappropriate
 
Reply 5 months ago on Mar 28, 2008 by gag, #6051

Once you have removed yourself from Singulair, I also am interested on how long you think it took for all the drug to be out of your system.

Send Private Mail | Add as friend | Flag as inappropriate
 
Reply 5 months ago on Mar 28, 2008 by azmomof2, #6056

My 2 1/2 year old has been on the med for 9 months. My husband is a special education teacher, and I am in healthcare as an audiologist. We both noticed changes, but chalked it up to "being 2". However, we both have felt that there is something more to it than being 2. Often times his energy level is so high and we try to execute it into something productive which requires a lot of attention, other times he is totally happy and then entirely unprovoked crying which is hard to calm. My husband terms him the "light switch on and off" I termed him my "AAC acting autistic child".......meaning that what the heck is going on.
There is usual whining 2 year old behavior and then there is behaivor that just isn't fitting the norm.
At 25 pounds and on a ton of medicine for asthma, I'm not surprised.
This makes me so sad. Lungs or mental health. Right now I'll go with lung issues and try better to control it from an environmental standpoint until we can research further.

Send Private Mail | Add as friend | Flag as inappropriate

Make a reply to this posting:

Type your reply to this side effect post:




ADVERTISEMENT

This registry is a place to share positive or negative side effects of using Singulair. If you directly experienced a side effect while using Singulair, then we encourage you to enter it here. Please note that entries here are the experiences of individual users, and in no way means that you or anyone else will experience the same side effect, since the same medication affects people in different ways. Please always contact your physician.
-- Please see our disclaimer

© 2002-2007, Skylabs Inc.  |  About Us  |  Disclaimer/Terms of Use  |  Advertise  |  Contact Us  |  Site Map  |  Developed by: W3matter.com