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My daughter is 20 years old and a chronic asthmatic with severe a...

Posted at 12:26 PM on Mar 29, 2008 by formydaughter1, #28708
My daughter is 20 years old and a chronic asthmatic with severe allergies. She has been on Singulair for 8 years. She has been complaining and in some instances begging her asthma doctor for a reason for her insomnia and restless sleep over the last several years. She takes other asthma and allergy medications. He told her to not take her Xopenex inhaler before bed, as that may be causing the problem, that didn't help at all (sometimes a Xopenex nebulizer treatment is needed for her at bedtime and during the night, during asthma flair-ups). Her doctor just switched her from Allegra (which she has been on since she was 10) to Zyrtec, which is helping with allergies, but not with the sleeplessness. She was taken off of Advair and put on Symbicort in September 2007, this made her asthma worse requiring Prednisone off -and -on since January. She is back on Advair and doing better, but the sleepless nights continue... We are seriously contemplating taking her off of the Singulair. We aren't 100% certain this medication is causing her insomnia/sleeplessness. However, as she explains it..."If I could get one really good nights sleep, I would go off of the Singulair in a heartbeat". Our fear is that by going off of the Singulair that her asthma will worsen.
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Reply 5 months ago on Mar 29, 2008 by biokid1130, #6150

I suggest that your daughter try Symbicort instead, 1 bid and as per needed i'm sure she will be able to sleep better, GET HER OFF SINGULAIR.

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Reply 5 months ago on Mar 30, 2008 by shadowkins, #6196

You aren't losing anything by stopping the singulair. If her symptoms disappear then you know the source of the problem ...there are other asthma drugs out there to try.
My son's asthma was very well controlled on the singulair but the anxiety, depression etc. made him feel life was not worth living. I have my son back now...Thank God, that's all that matters.
Good luck.

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Reply 5 months ago on Mar 30, 2008 by artie81, #6239

Be careful of anything that contains salmeterol like Advair. It has a black box warning and causes increased risk of death.

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Reply 5 months ago on Mar 30, 2008 by artie81, #6240

I just noticed your daughter is on Zyrtec. That has the same suicidal labeling Singulair has.

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