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Posted at 10:28 AM on May 04, 2008 by glorytatum, #30177
My son will be 6 in June. He has been on singulair since he was 2. About a couple of months ago I noticed a change in his mood. Like he was depressed. Getting very upset if he couldn't do a certain thing. To the point of crying. Also crying if we get on him for something and not yelling at him just talking to him. He's always seems to be in a daze all of the time. And when you ask him a question, you sometimes have to ask him several times. To be 5 he is very hard on himself. He thinks he should be able to do anything and be good at it or he is very upset. He also thinks that everyone else is smarter than him when he is one of the smarter kids in his class. His teacher tells us. I feel he may of always been depressed but am just now seeing it, with him in school. Like many of the others, he has a hard time falling asleep unless its the weekend and we let him stay up later. He also at times has bad stomach aches, to the point hes crying. After reading some of the things people are going through, I'm going to stop giving him the singulair to see if his symptoms go away. Now I'm convinced that thats whats causing it.
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Reply 6 months ago on May 04, 2008 by sp2008, #7924

My son has been off it since 3-29.. Things are looking better each day! Yes there were some up and downs as he was adjusting over last month but so worth it to get back the happy children we once had! He is 6 and was on it since 2 1/2. The last 6 months things and side effects became really bad. If you would like to join a support board for the members here you can join us at
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/Singulair_side_effects_friends/
Keep us posted on how he is doing..

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Reply 6 months ago on May 05, 2008 by dtrzaski, #7938

Like many of us,you will love seeing your son become happy again.All of the symptoms you discribed were present in my children as well.Good Luck.

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Reply 6 months ago on May 06, 2008 by freakedoutmom, #8000

Hang in there. We have been off for about 5 weeks and I would say that our daughter is about 90% back to normal. We had the same change in personality - from happy go lucky before Singulair to dark moods, dark thoughts, sadness, etc. I am hoping that we make it to 100% soon. Keep us posted on how things are going!

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