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Our son was put on several medications 9/07 due to bad asthma and...

Posted at 9:52 AM on Apr 03, 2008 by swaldron, #29067
Our son was put on several medications 9/07 due to bad asthma and allergies. Since then we saw his behavior begin to go down hill. He would complain of stomaches, not want to go to school, became increasingly more irritable and has mood swings. He was a good student and we have never had a problem with him attending school. Since 9/07 we have taken him to a total of 10 different doctors. Pediatricians, therapist, allergy doctor and three licensed psychiatrists. Everyone said that we were crazy when we suggested that this behavior was linked to the medication. The psychiatrist diagnosed him with anxiety disorder along with school phobia. This has been a nightmare. I finally took him to an acupuncture doctor as a last resort because the doctors wanted us to put him on Prozac for the anxiety. Our family doctor has even suggested he is Bipolar! The acupuncture doctor has recommended a diet change and some treatments with her so that we can remove him from all his medications. I am so glad that I listened to my instincts and did not put him on the Prozac. I was so upset when this story aired about the Singulair. We have been trying to get the doctors to listen to us since 9/07 about the possible link. They still deny the connection and advised us to not remove him from the medicine. But for once I am going to handle things my way and we have already seen a difference in his behavior. We will keep our fingers crossed and hope for the best. My heart goes out to everyone that has had similiar experiences. These doctors should listen to the parents instead of assuming we are all trying to blame behavior problems on medication.
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Reply 8 months ago on Apr 03, 2008 by matthewct1, #6565

That must be infuriating!! Tell your doctors they're all FIRED and ask them how much money they've made from prescribing Singulair.

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Reply 8 months ago on Apr 03, 2008 by njcukett, #6570

I bet no of those doctors have ever had their young child prescribed this and if they did and have been through what we all have - they would totally stop the medication!

God gave us all an instinct for a reason - it's up to us to use it!

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Reply 8 months ago on Apr 04, 2008 by christylou, #6646

my son is 15 and went through something like this around age 13-14, i am outraged that so many of us had to go through this, we did put our son on Prozac under the advice of the first Psych and after 4 days and closely monitoring our sonl, i took him off because he told us that the voices he was hearing went from one voice to about 3 or 4!

we were scared to death, we then took him to another Psych, he was diagnosed with OCD, but we were just so glad that is wasn't schizophrenia, we are certain that he has OCD, it does tend to run in my family but i think that Singulair made all of these symptoms worse and i do worry about long term effects

I so want to do something, i called my PCPs office Monday and i still feel like they think i am crazy, very frustrating, sounds like you are so thankful that you followed your instincts, as i am, we too were going to try accupuncture, anything but the chemicals, he is now on Nasonex for severe allergies, prescribed before we knew any of this and i'm thinking about taking him off, we both started allergy shots more than a year ago

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Reply 8 months ago on Apr 05, 2008 by flindy, #6705

School phobia yes my son was givien that diagnoses to,never ever heard of it before lol,what a nightmare, now we know school phoebia is a direct link to singulair.

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