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My 20 year old daughter suffered with asthma since the age of two...

Posted at 1:27 PM on Mar 28, 2008 by texasmom21, #28582
My 20 year old daughter suffered with asthma since the age of two. She took theophylline for years, but once singulair came out and we switched it was like a 100% improvement! However, looking back , what I thought may be teenage angst, I can see the correlation between the way she wrote her poetry and the use of singulair. She was never suicidal but did have some symptoms of anxiety and sleeplessness. She ended up having such bad sleep problems in her freshman year of college, that she could not sleep at all for 6 days in a row. She was admitted to the hospital when she was found in her dorm in nothing but a bathrobe and slippers, crouched on the floor, non responsive and in a state that they thought perhaps she had overdosed on drugs! After clearing all drug tests, she was admitted to a state mental hospital and put on risperdal for two weeks. She eventually came out of the hallucinations and the anxiety went away. After being released, she had to withdraw on a medical leave from school and eventually weaned herself from the risperdal and stopped taking the singulair. Her follow up appointments with psychiatrist were positive, they changed her diagnosis and said she was not, after all, bi polar and they did not renew her prescriptions for any anti-psychotic meds or any bipolar meds. Since then , she has not had any recurrence of sleeplessness or any episodes like that. I have started a ******* page so that we can all keep in touch with our stories and give the support and feedback in one community. Please go there, its free,******
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