I just started using Singulair a few days ago. I am 54 years old...

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if you don't like taking drugs why don't you try taking some herbal medicines for your night coughs.

ammy, thank you for your reply. I really appreciated it. I feel as if the herbal medicines might not help but I will research it as I am afraid of Singulair. Again thank you for your help. Sincerely, pattycakes53

You really need to weigh the pros and cons. For the few people that Singulair works for with no side effects for them it is the miracle drug. For those of us who have endured or have had our children endure (which is both for me) the horrible side effects it has been a nightmare drug. My Aunt is on Singulair and has taken it for at least last 9 years. She does not seem to have any problems from it. She is also on several other meds and just went through breast cancer so maybe she is just not relating things to it. That was one of the reasons my son and I took it because of her experience with it. We now know different and Im just sorry it took me 3 1/2 years to realize it.

Dear sp2008, Your right about weighing the pros and cons of it. It must be a miracle drug to some as you mentioned. I have been on it now for several days and I am still in denial that I should even be on it. It helps but not what I expected. I still cough at night but it has lessened enough for me to sleep. But yet I cough more during the day when I never use to cough during the daytime. So strange. I also dream more then I have lately. I am thankful but still scared of the drug on what it can eventually do to me. I don't want any hidden surprises at my age of 54. I looked into herbal remedies but again they are considered pharmaceutical also and you have to be very careful with them and how they may interact with other meds you take. It's a no win situation. You want to trust your doctor and do what he says .. on the other end.. so many money hungry drug companies are preying on people's vulnerabilities when they are ill and need help. I will continue to be wary and careful with Singulair and if my symptoms don't change enough for me to see a difference, I will ask my doctor for more testing on my consistent night coughing and pray for a better alternative. Thank you for your input, it is much accepted and I learned from it.

Frankly, I am trying to figure out why your symptoms of coughing at night would justify using a medication that suppresses the immune system. Singulair was invented to prevent the cysLT1 receptor from responding to the type of allergic stimulus that caused it to produce chemicals that signal the immune system to send eosinophils to the site of the "perceived" infection. Eosinophils are a type of immune system blood cell that fights special types of infections including viruses, parasites, and others. It was meant for people who over-react to stimulus and eosinophils are causing severe inflammation in the lungs. Singulair is suppressing your immune system every day that you take that pill.

I don't get any sense of what reason that you think that you cough at night. Bedding is a real source of allergens. Dust mites are one of the leading causes of allergies. Some people cough at night because they have acid reflux disease. In the prone position, acid spills into the esophagus. So what did you do to find out why you have night cough before you agreed to suppress your immune system???? Essentially you are agreeing to a trial and error process of trying drugs to see if the symptom goes away. I say that because you have tried:

1. antibiotics - infection??? what kind???? gram negative or gram positive???

2. narcotic cough syrup - suppressing some reaction or hooking you on narcotics????

3. Singulair - suppressing the immune system leukotriene response

Well, those treatments are all over the board wouldn't you say???

The drug companies market pills for symptoms - what pill for what symptom. And we ALL agree to that because we want something to make the symptom go away NOW. But you aren't getting better yet - why is that but you don't know why you have the symptom. It seems to me that you are blindly accepting a shot gun approach to treatment. In the meantime, you are risking your health by suppressing your immune system and possibly suffering adverse side effects yet to be determined.

Sorry if I am being rough on you. But, I think that the logic here speaks for itself and you will appreciate hearing this so that you can begin to focus.

I took Singulair for years and it helped greatly with my many seasonal allergies and my oversensitivity to dust. However, I have many other medications and never suspected Singulair of any of my problems such as SHAKING and jerking of my fingers and hands toes and everything but my nose! I stopped taking it and I stopped shaking. I took it and had shaking for over 8 years. It stopped with the last dose out of my system, the shaking stopped. I told my doctor and he raised hell with me in his doctorly ninny finny attitude, and repeated over and over to me, "Are there other medications you allergies to?" I said, "No." But there were many I HAD ADVERSE REACTIONS TO, but SINGULAIR takes the prize for the worst mess. Effexor is similarly bad for me. How he could ignore this ADVERSE reaction in me that was so obvious for so many years, and dismiss me as "allergic"...wow, I really grew angry, and almost fired his dumb....

I decided to continue seeing him and see if i could educate him to understand his practice is going to rot and fail if he keeps his head up inside his nose way up in the air. Stopping Singulair was really hard too, my eyes are itchy and red all the time, and my nose is a veritable uncharted part of the Amazon, but I don't shake. I found also that Allegra makes me shake, as does Concerta, and Prozac, and I've begun taking less and less medication and my chronic pain is now leaving me, and I am able to get around well and enjoy the days.

Too many unknown toxins.