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Posted at 12:19 AM on Mar 29, 2008 by concernedfather, #28674
My daughter was prescribed singulair about six months ago when she was 4Yrs. old, after about a month on the medication she stated complaining about stomach pain, headaches, and refuses to eat. She recently started running high fevers at night and has been very emotional. The doctors only had great things to say about singulair,it makes me wonder if our childern's doctors may be getting some kind of financial incentive for prescribing these medications to our children.
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Reply 8 months ago on Mar 29, 2008 by matthewct1, #6113

To concernedfather:
I'm not a doctor so don't take my word as medical advice but I would take your daughter off Singulair and see how she reacts. If she reacts favorably then change pediatricians.
My son was back to normal within a couple days!!!
I find it odd that our pediatricians are blind to Singulair...I believe that is going to change quickly.

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Reply 8 months ago on Mar 29, 2008 by texdog, #6123

Take her off Singular!!!!! My daughter started on Singular a little bit before 3 years old and started out the same way with the stomach problems that then turned into vivd nightmares and hallucinations. Then it went to high anxiety. We never related the medicine to causing these side effects. She has been off of the medicine for about 2 years; however unfortunate, she was on it for so long during the most important developmental period for a child and during a time when children are learning to use rationale neuro developemental processes I will never know if my child's cognitive and neuro development was formed from medicinal actions or her own gentic makeup. A scary thought and something I will have to live with because now has been diagnosed with high anxiety due to her long term effects of vivid nightmares and hallucinations that she believed were real while on Singular. Again during an impressionable time of her life.

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Reply 8 months ago on Mar 31, 2008 by marybeth1228, #6331

The doctors are getting perks!!!! The more they push/sell, the more they get

to think that when i had no insurance, i paid $110 a month to think that this was helping my son.

cannot repeat enough;

all the same symptoms and my sone is 6.5. been off this for about a week...

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