Dangerous Side Effects of Singulair

CNN just posted about the dangerous side effects of Singulair. Click on the link to read the story. Here's mine...

My son is 5 years old and was diagnosed with asthma in early September of 2007. His pediatrician immediately put him on Singulair. I would say that within a month my son became a different person. He would have these outbursts that were not caused by anything. He started saying horrible things to his siblings, his father, and myself. His behavior was just completely abnormal. He started having anxiety attacks and he had never had one before. In February 2008 these rages and outburst became awful. I would have to hold him down if he got upset because he would hurt himself, or try to hurt me. He would always return back to normal within 15 minutes as if nothing happened. He would always say "I don't know why I did that." He then had a fit (over nothing) and started saying he wanted to kill himself, he just wanted to die, he didn't like the feeling in his body. This fit went on for about 45 minutes, and I could not calm him down. He's 5 years old and was threatening to kill himself because of this feeling in him. The next night he had the same fit only this time he wanted to kill his sister. We immediately contacted his pediatrician and multiple physiologists because something was seriously wrong. About a week later and multiple rages we had scheduled a physiological evaluation which was going to run us about $850 out of pocket. My husband did a search for Singulair and found a message board where mothers were talking about the effects of Singulair on their children, and I felt as if I were reading something I had written. I called the pediatrician and told her that we were taking him off Singulair immediately. I also called the school nurse, and the psychologists we were dealing with, and none of them knew about these side effects of Singulair. They were ready to diagnose him with Autism or ADHD. It's now almost 4 weeks later and my son is back to normal. He does not have that blank stare in his eyes, he focuses completely on the task at hand, but more importantly he has not mentioned killing himself again, no more rages. He loves all of us again and says "that feeling" has gone away. That was the most excruciating, heart wrenching thing I've ever gone through, and this drug really needs to be taken off the market. All the poor mothers out there going through the same thing as me and not knowing what is causing it. I hate to think if my son were a bit older and actually knew what killing himself meant, what would have happened then. This should have been taken off the market in 2007 when the teenager in NY killed himself 2 weeks after being on Singulair.

He had no preexisting conditions besides the asthma. Back in 2004 the doctors thought he had allergies so they put him on Singulair for that for about 6 months. He was a completely normal child before the Singulair. It turned him into an evil child who was tormented daily by the effects of Singulair.

If you know anyone who is taking Singulair, please keep an eye out for abnormal behavior. It's time this stops! Children are getting diagnosed with ADHD, Autism, and other disorders, and being prescribed other "calming" meds to stop the effects of Singulair. Let's put a stop to this.

Please post if you've had any stories regarding Singulair. Maybe together we can do something.

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