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Oh my god!!!! My poor daughter. My daughter Karilynn has been t...

Posted at 1:50 PM on Apr 01, 2008 by brandy_m, #28924
Oh my god!!!! My poor daughter. My daughter Karilynn has been taking this drug for about 8 months now. She is 2 1/2 years old now. All of the sudden she had a drastic change in behavior, sleep and eating patterns. She began with sleep problems. She would wake up in the middle of the night screaming that the green monsters were after her. I chocked it up to night terrors that weren't explained. Then she started waking up screaming that her "bottom" hurt but would point to her stomach. She quit eating, cried all the time, started acting out randomly. My little girl who had never had discipline problems started randomly hitting and biting me. It wasn't even when I would discipline her for something. She would literally come up and bite me out of no where. She throws huge tantrums now. The daycare lady even asked me if something was going on at home because she was doing strange things there also. Not knowing what was wrong (but trusting my mother instinct that there was SOMETHING wrong) I started to think that maybe she was being abused. The night mares, the random pain.... I even had a breif moment where I thought my grandmother was hurting her. I want to throw up thinking about that now. I took her to the pediatrician, who ran every test imaginable to "rule out any physical reason" that could be causing all of these symptoms at once. Test after test came back negative. I actually have the number to the psychologist that does "play therapy" sitting in front of me because we were seriously terrified that someone was hurting her. Little did I know it was us!!!! I called tha asthma dr. yesterday after seeing the news story and he told me that my concerns weren't really valid and that it sounded like she was being a "typical" two year old. That really made me angry. After reading all of these accounts there is very little doubt in my mind that it is the medicine. It all makes sense now. Halleluah if it is such a simple fix!!! I was worried my daughter was being ABUSED!!!! What an unimaginable feeling for any parent!! I quit the singulair last night against the asthma doctors "urging" and gave the daycare lady a heads up. Its sad to say but I pray this is all that is wrong with my little girl!!! If someone files a class action suit please let me know. Also if there is anything more I can do to make sure someone else doesn't go through this let me know!!!!!
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Reply 8 months ago on Apr 01, 2008 by ctmomof3, #6428

Brandy, I am so sorry that you are going through this. I am in the process of collecting info from other parents/people regarding a class action. I've already been in contact with him, and he'll be getting back to me tomorrow. You can email me at jmc-lampwork@charter.net with your contact info, and brief details.
My son is 5, was on it for 6 months, and wanted to kill himself and leave this earth. It was awful. He was amost diagnosed with ADHD or Autism, they said he had obsessive behavior and mood disorders. Good news...he's been off it for only one month, and is completely back to his happy loving normal self. Hopefully you'll see a drastic change in your daugther.
Let me know ok?
Jen

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Reply 8 months ago on Apr 01, 2008 by alloccasion, #6447

I just posted the same situation about the nightmares. This really freaks me out....I switched my daughter in the morning and the nightmares went away. Thankfully she did not suffer the mood swings. God bless you and I hope your family can get through this. P.S. I take Singular and I have never had any of the things that are happening to these children. I will not poision myself or my children with this any longer.

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