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Posted at 7:58 AM on Mar 29, 2008 by shadowkins, #28689
Be very wary of this drug! My son was on it for a year and a half ...the last six months were a veritable nightmare for him. Severe anxiety issues (had to be hospitalized at one point ) and depression. Doctors kept saying it was not the medication but when I googled the drug side effects and stumbled on a blog about singulair problems , I told my son and off the medication he went. Within a month he was back to his normal self . Thank goodness he was old enough to tell me how he was feeling ( 17 years old at the time) but what about very young children on this drug...how can they voice their problems when they don't have the vocabulary or knowledge of what is "normal"?
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Reply 5 months ago on Mar 29, 2008 by catherine7, #6130

YES!!!
Same here, my 7 year old son had been on it for nearly
3 years, this is when we noticed him being hyperactive, aggressive, argumentive, just different! I told his doctor, she did not believe me, she even told me that HER own children are on Singulair. He has been off of it for over a year now, at least...but he is not the same!!
We haved had to put him on behavior meds, because he went from A honor roll student, to an out of control child on Singulair!!!!!!!!
NOW THERE IS A RECALL ON THE DRUG SAYING IT IS CAUSING SUICIDAL THOUGHTS, ETC...DEPRESSION...EVERYTHING THAT IS HAPPENING TO OUR OWN CHIILDREN. Don't they test medicine anymore or do not care?????
As soon as school is over, I am taking my son to a homeopathic doctor, a good one...to get on NATURAL MEDICINE, GOD'S NATURAL CURES.
too many side effects, too many mysteries with all these new drugs they do not even test.
I am so worried for our next generation.
No one in our family/growing up had to deal with this.
Plus he used to take albuterol for his asthma.
OH, by the way..... HE IS JUST FINE WITHOUT THE SINGULAIR, AND MY SISTER FOUND AN EXCELLENT COUGH AND ALLERGY MEDICINE, ALL NATURAL AT THE HEALTH FOOD STORE, PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD....NO SINGULAIR FOR OUR CHILDREN!!!!

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