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Posted at 9:23 PM on May 16, 2008 by happymom, #30546
This is a follow-up. I have posted about our experience before, but to summarize: 6 year old boy on Singulair for over three years for Asthma. Drug worked wonders, but side effects developed so slowly that we thought those were "phases" that would go away. Side effects were just as everyone else reported: nightmares, fears, depression/sadness (we even went to a child psychologist since we thought this behavior was all due to father's deployment), aggressiveness, crying at the drop off a hat (like a 2 year old, not age appropriate), attention deficit, school performance dropped, and also, at the very end, obsessive compulsive behavior. We stopped Singulair as soon as we heard about the FDA investigation (on NPR, about 6 to 7 weeks ago). Asthma has not worsened, thank goodness, so we make due with the Flovent for now. Most of the side effects were less prominent after some time, however the obsessive compulsive behavior stopped only a few days ago. We have better days, we have worse days, but slowly the better days outnumber the bad, aggressive, and negative ways. What I read again and again in the postings is that we all assumed our children entered a bad "phase." A phase that just got worse and never ended! Reading about the very same side effects in our children, over and over again, alarmed me. Taking my son off the Singulair and seeing the improvements, some faster some slower, totally convinced me. I will never ever have Singulair in my house again.
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Reply about 1 year ago on May 16, 2008 by kristina551980, #8360

I'm starting to think ALL allergy meds affected my son I just stopped his flonase yesterday since it's the same med. as Flovent & if u read Flovent's S/E's there are similiarities to singulair so just be careful on the flovent he was also on zyrtec & claritin at diff times b4 the singulair now that I look back he seemed to get worse when he started on the allergy meds BUt Singulair was the worst!!!

GL I hope he continues to improve like e/o else on here
we'll have to wait & see what happens with my son though I would so much rather deal with allergies than these mood swings/aggression/bad behaviors

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Reply about 1 year ago on May 17, 2008 by ginalynn2, #8381

My son has been off Singulair for almost 3 weeks now. I have seen improvements in mood and attitude, but the one thing that still haunts us is the hair pulling (eyebrows and eyelashes). He hasn't pulled in a few days, but he says he still wants to and it's hard to stop. If after a few more weeks he is still struggling with this, we'll see a child psychiatrist (but NO drugs - only for behavior modification). Good luck to you and all the other parents/children suffering side effects.

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