| Posted at 9:17 AM on Mar 28, 2008 by dunncristy03, #28542 |
My 10 yr. old daughter has been on singular for 1 year for asthma. When I went in for her follow up I asked her doctor if any of her medications could be causing her extreme mood swings and I was told no. I called this morning and told her doctor I was taking her off of it and of course they thought I was over-reacting. I have struggled for the past year trying to help her through these crazy moods, stomach aches and so on. I was reading all of these parents sorrows this morning and for the first time I didn't feel alone in this battle. Its a horrible feeling when you can't help your child emotionally and you have went down every avenue you can possibly find. I have cried many tears, even more so in the last 2 days because finally I have an answer to my prayers. Children go through lots of emotions that are hard for them and their parents but when you add a drug like singular to the mix it's even harder. I am angry that it has taken this long for something to be reported about this drug and that it took a childs life before the FDA would check into it. My daughter has not been herself for a year and I feel she has been cheated out of a year of her life. I have asked her so many times why she couldn't control herself and she would look at me and cry and tell me she didn't no and she just could help it. She has had fits of anger, she has had lots of sadness for no apparent reason, and stomach aches. She has been in therapy to control her emotions and it has been affecting her at school and she has always been a great student and very smart. I pray that something is done about this and the more that people speak up the better our children will be protected but we as parents are going to have to question the dotors more and ask more questions because we know our children better than they do.
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