Singulair High on Drugs, Wetting the Bed, Wierd, Asthma Attack, Doctor Didn
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My four year old son has been on singulair for 6 weeks. He has started complaining about nightmares, wetting the bed and has become irritable and easily agitated. In addition, he seems to go into these wierd episodes of not being able to control his body...like someone high on drugs. Has anyone had a similar experience? ... more »
My four year old son has been on singulair for 6 weeks. He has started complaining about nightmares, wetting the bed and has become irritable and easily agitated. In addition, he seems to go into these wierd episodes of not being able to control his body...like someone high on drugs. Has anyone had a similar experience?
I will be calling his dr. in the am.
Micah - I wrote earlier about the complex partial seizures. Origionally the doctors thought he had a movement disorder because the seizure wasn't showing up on the eeg. So, Im assuming your are seeing the same things in your son. My son had nightmares, anger problems, hallucinations, severe headaches, leg and joint pains, scared, The movements are preceeded by and aura, he smells a wierd smell, (dead fish or burnt bacon), then he says he feels tired or weak, tummy ache, neck ache, headache, then within about 15 seconds he has these "fits". They had been going on and off every 30 seconds or so up to two hours at a time twice a day. (sometimes 3 a day). He has been off Singulair for 4 weeks and has finally tapered down to almost nothing. The doctors will say he is mental before they admit to the singulair problem. This has got to stop.
Micah
Alightguess - After a few weeks of using singulair i noticed that my son would wake up from a nap and couldn't move his arm. I thought that maybe he laid on it the wrong way but then he did it again. Soon after that he had a seizure in his sleep. I never noticed any of these problems before. When i took him to his ped doctor he couldn't believe that it could have been a seizure he had been seeing him since he was a baby (he was five at the time). He was diagnosed with asthma when he was four. His doctor didn't give him the singulair until he had a big asthma attack. I really think the singulair was the reason for the seizures. He is on seizure medicine now. I hope this helps some.
Agoins - My son is 6 years old and just recently went back on singulair after a few months off and has had all of the same episodes. He has night sweats, nightmares with hallucinations and has complained of stomach aches and headaches. Doctors need to test drugs longer and more intensely before we give them to our innicent children.
Nmyers - My daughter is 2 and a half. Yesterday evening was her second dose of singulair. She was up around 2 am until 6:30 am this morning with night terrors. She woke up again around 10:30am this morning and again was almost like hillucinating. She was very afraid, and would not let me put her down. As per her Doctor, I brought her to the emergency room, and they told me that Sleep disturbance and hillucination are among some of the side effects that they themselves along with her pediatrition were not aware of. She has had another episode since leaving the ER, but they said it could happen a few more times until the Meds are out of her system. It is a very scary thing to watch though when it does happen. Hope this helps!!
Cc2007 - Thank you for this information. My son is 4 and took his 3rd dose of Singulair tonight. About two hours after he took the pill he "woke up" from his sleep and starting acting very strange. Laughing very strangely, then zoning out with a weird look. After a few minutes of this he wet his pants, something that he never does and then went back into a deep sleep. He was defintely not himself. Whne he woke up again he kept talking about monsters and how he is afraid. I suspected the medicine and thanks to your postings I will take him off the drug.
Dbm - I am an adult and have been on singular for asthma 6 years. Really I have been experiencing a sort of time lapse that I can't explain and a strange scent comes into my mind and I wonder off for a few minutes in thought and I cannot remember what went on on those few minutes. The doctors have taken EEg and MRI and cannot find anything but are assuming it is a seizure and putting me on heavy duty meds which make me feel like I am a different person. I just read that seizures are a side effect of singular and no one has explored that avenue of thinking so I am wondering if anyone anywhere can help me before they take my license away which I need badly and put me back on these heavy duty drugs. Please someone understand and help.
Dolores
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