Singulair and grocery store

A couple of years ago I tried Singulair due to problems with oral yeast infections from my inhaler. I'm a athletic, health conscious 46 year old woman with a high-burn hypoglycemic metabolism, and often have unusual and extreme reactions to food and medications. I hallucinate on Diet Coke, for example. I waited until the weekend to try Singulair just in case I reacted, and it was a good thing I did. I slept about 10 hours in three days, and when I could sleep I had bizarre dreams. I felt like an ADHD woman having a manic episode! My boyfriend noticed behavioral changes right away, and fortunately he did all the driving that weekend! I stopped the drug on Sunday, and was barely able to sit up at work by Monday afternoon. The next weekend I broke the pills into quarters, but had the same problems even with only a fourth of the dose. Once all the drug was out of my system, which didn't take long, I was fine. I went back to my Claritin and Pulmacort Turbuhaler, and I've been fine ever since. I'm both surprised and not to find Singulair causes similar reactions in others. I thought it was just my strange metabolism, but apparently not. This is a sad, cold comfort way to find out I'm not as freakish as I thought. My condolences and best wishes to everyone dealing with children and family members on this drug and/or going through withdrawal.
P.S. I never drink soft drinks anymore, or eat or drink anything with artificial sweeteners, either.

My son took Singulair for about a year from ages 5-6. It was the worst experience of our lives. He too became very moody and anxious. He started having strong separation anxiety, nightmares and sleeping problems. We assumed this was tied with starting kindergarten. Then after being on the drug for about 10 months months his dose was increased because of his growth. Immediately after increasing his dose, he began to be afraid of choking while eating his food. Within a few weeks he was refusing to eat anything other than soft food. He also became terrified of leaving me because I might die and never come back. At night he could not sleep because he was afraid the house would burn down. He refused to sleep alone at this point. After two weeks of this, he became terrified that his food was poisoned and would cry while eating. He often had to get up to spit out his food. His fear of fire increased to a fear that any electronic item might spontaneously explode. He also started having full blown panic attacks. We were beside ourselves trying to figure out what was wrong with him. At that point, we took him to a psychologist to find out what medication he'd need to take to control his anxiety. I started seaching the net and found one site mentioning anxiety in children on Singulair. We took him off the medication the next day. Our psychologist was able to get him to eat again by walking him through the grocery store and having his sample various foods from the shelves with the promise that he'd get $100 on the spot if he started choking. Of course he didn't, and was reassured that he could actually eat solid food again. Within a week, all of his anxiety was gone. After being off Singulair for two weeks, we had our son back again. The experience was absolutely terrifying, and I'm so glad our psychologist believed that it was Singular and didn't put him on an anti-anxiety drug. Since then my son has been diagnosed with borderline ADHD, but we're afraid to try any medication because ADD meds also can cause anxiety. Our psych also agrees. I'll take a squirely child over a terrified, sleep deprived and hungry one any day. If your child is experience any of these types of problems, throw out your Singulair now!!