Comments on: Singulair suicide side effects to be reviewed by FDA

By: DH

DH — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:31:31 +0000

My daughter was prescribed Singulair for asthma in 2008 when she was 11. It triggered a severe depressive episode involving suicidal thoughts, self injurious behavior, anxiety, personality changes, academic and social difficulties that resulted in her losing all her friends and ultimately changing schools. after eight months on Singulair we found a child psychiatrist who immediately took her off the Singulair. (Her asthma has been well controlled since that time with Flovent.) although she improved greatly once off Singulair she has continued to struggle with depression since that time, has been on Lexapro and then Zoloft daily and has twice-weekly talk therapy. I believe that her depression was triggered by Singulair, and I wonder if she will suffer from depression for the rest of her life. I hope that a class- action suit will be brought against Merck.

By: Anders

Anders — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 16:55:18 +0000

Our daughter, 4 years old, was prescribed singulair for seasonal allergies. She became scared all the time, had night terrors, tantrums, vivid dreams, couldnt separate dreams from reality, had aggression… Two days after taking her off the prescription, most of the behavioral changes vanished, and we got our daughter back. She is still really scared and says ‘i don’t know how to stop being scared’. Parent discussion boards are full of these experiences. Please please sue the makers of singulair and make them stop pushing this terrible drug on kids.

By: Marion

Marion — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 06:41:58 +0000

I was prescribed Singular over five years ago and have been treated for depression Just as long. My physician never told me about the side effects even though she knew how I struggled. Finally in desperation I started to research the drug and took myself off of the drug. I have lost all confidence all doctors and my primary in particular. Each psychiatrist I went to asked for a list of my medications and not one knew or didn\’t bother to find out the side effects. I have lost five years of my life, not to mention the hell I put my family through, to Singular.

By: Patricia & James

Patricia & James — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 01:08:56 +0000

Our son was drastically affected with this horrible Singulair–We have documentation- How do we particpate i n the class action suit….

By: DeEtte

DeEtte — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 07:55:47 +0000

I was on singulair for a very longtime when I look back at the time when I started taking it I had alot of suicide thoughts even attempted suicide by taken paxil and night quil in large amount a friend took me to er but I left on my own, my mom had to come to my aid because I was so suicidal , mood swings and breakdowns and yet I was put on paxil and still had the same feelings. I had asthma and that is why I was placed on this medication. I then started having terrible nightmares now known as night terrors. I would wake up feeling like I was gonna die and fighting and screaming my family and children witnessed this. I kept taking the medicine even complaining to doctors about my problems but it was always brushed off. I was and still am afraid to go to sleep because of the night terrors which I never had until I started using the medicine. I had such guilt and felt crazy from my sleep issues and understand I was told to take this medicine before I slept I never took it during the day I took it for years at night. It wasn’t until my husband finally got tired of being woke up and scared half to death from my screaming and panicking he said he didn’t want to hurt my feelings but I needed to seek serious help. I then became desperate the doctors were not helping me so I searched online and heard about the link between singulair and suicide and night terrors so I took myself off it and told the doctor why I was doing this and after a few weeks of being off my night terrors were not as bad but till now and it has been over a year I still have problems and I wonder now if I have permanent damage and will I ever sleep normal as I did before I started taking this medicine. It has made me a different person because I lack sleep because of my fear and I am very angry by this. I can prove I was given this medicine and would be more then happy to help. I can’t believe small children are having to experience this it is absolutely terrifying.

By: Susan

Susan — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 18:20:37 +0000

My daughter ( 27 ) has been taking this drug Singulair for about a year. It has helped her asthma. But she has also developed horrible depression & now takes Zoloft & Trazadone for these new symptoms. About a month ago, she had been struggling with bronchitis and anitbiotics were not working. The doc that was treating her ( without any X-rays ) decided she had cracked a rib from coughing so hard. Mind you she kept telling him she was having horrible chest pains. He sent her home with vicodin for cracked rib, said to “rest” and let the anitbiotics do their job. This was her 3rd round of antibiotics and she kept getting sicker. So I took her to the ER, and it was like a whirwind. Within minutes, they knew something was going on with her heart. It was beating over twice the normal rate. So, then they find fluid around heart. Then they find 45% Eosinphils in blood & in Fluid. ( normal percentages for this type of white cell is 1-4% ) The doctors said they were shocked that she was walking, let alone breathing in her own. They had to cut a 4 in hole in her chest, insert a large chest tube and drain the fluid. She had the tube for about 3 days & drained 500 CC of fluids!!! Now they are saying she has Chrug- Strauss syndrone, which is a serious lung disease that is inked to Singulair. The doctors will not admit Singulair did this to her. But she spent 4 days in ICU, & then another 4 days in hospital. She had a 24 hr period where she almost died. This drug needs to be recalled. There are way too many people being seriously injured due to the side effects. My kid is only 27 and now they say she might have this Chrnoic Lung disease forever. This is no cure for it!

By: Dawn

Dawn — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 17:39:30 +0000

This allergy “medicine” was perscribed for my son by what used to
be our doctor. Careless pill pusher. I am so mad. My 17 year old was
on it for a month and a half. Within 2 weeks of Sigulaire he had a car
accident because what he saw wasn’t accurate. He could have been
killed. My son was a wonderful driver. He has had horrible mood swings,depression,insomnia. and anxiety ect. This “medication” is no
joke and should be banned. Shame on Merck and the “doctors” who
prescribe this-they should be held accountable for the damage they cause to the unsuspecting public.

By: tamzin

tamzin — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 14:30:57 +0000

id like to add to my above post it also explains the hundreds of questions about death like mum if i jump of there will i die or mum if i run in front of a car will i die etc etc its only just dawned on us that this to has stopped since we stopped the tablet OMG TOXIC STUFF

By: tamzin

tamzin — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 14:14:18 +0000

PARENTS BE WARNED i have been having Terrible problems with my 5 year old son head aches sore joints not sleeping well hypersensitive frustrated fighting lazy eye worse weeing heaps drinking lots not so active cries alot yells tummy pain brain telling him things and the list goes on .very worried thinking something is very wrong we went to doctors and specialist and many tests and hundreds of $ to be told we need counciling.THEN A mum from school worked it out its his ashama meds SINGULAIR doing this we have now stopped it and my little boy is slowly getting back to his self and his school work in one week off the meds is 100% better
damm pharmaceutical companies there is no warnings on the box PARENTS BE WARNED ITS TOXIC DO NOT GIVE TO YOUR CHILDREN i cant wait to have my little man back to normal i just cant belive how much it did effect him,and our family .i had a break down and my daughter suffered to. ,please pass this on xxxx

By: Fed Up

Fed Up — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 18:00:47 +0000

I have relatives who take this drug daily and now they have anger problem, an out of control problem plus physical problemss. They are ages 4, 6 and 8….. the parents are clueless and refuse to listen. After all, their well known pediatrition recommnded it. The kids just need to get under control of themselves. It is not the kids fault….it’s the drug, parents! A horrible one at that. Sue the pants off of Mercke untill they take it off the market. It’s dangerous. Parents wake up. Be your kids advocate. Doctors don’t have a clue about the dangerous side effects and don’t care. Big Pharma is all about making money not caring one iota about our kids. Try Hyland products… homeopathic with NO side effects. They work better than the scripts.