Comments on: Update on the Singulair/Depression Issue

By: Chad P. Edwards, DO

Chad P. Edwards, DO — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:20:17 +0000

Certainly, some patients tolerate singulair very well with significant improvements while others do not get much benefit and still others have substantial side effects. The disheartening thing is that most physicians do not even consider nutritional causes. Gluten intolerance (with or without detectible antibodies), dairy, and lectins are just some of the foods that could contribute to, if not cause, asthma and other respiratory disorders. I generally recommend 30 days on a strict ‘Paleo Diet’ and evaluate for improvement then gradually re-introduce the least offensive foods as tolerated.
I call all medications “controlled poisons” since every one of them have potential adverse effects, side effects, and toxicities. I do use them every day but do every other intervention possible before medications as there is generally no toxicities with these therapies.
Isn’t the 1st dictom of medicine ‘First, do no harm’?

By: Gerry Robertson

Gerry Robertson — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 01:43:34 +0000

Hi Alex, I have been on Singlair for about 3 weeks now but the effect that I get is the exact opposite of yours I am bouncing I am very active now and as for sleeping I am bright as a button my mind is clearer prior to taking this I was lethalgic virtually house bound no interest in anything even though I was on Cetrilapram (40 mgs per day) for my deperession I was still very low at times.

but now I have no time to sleep I am retired through ill health.

By: Gerald Robertson

Gerald Robertson — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 01:32:27 +0000

I am a man of 61 I was put on a course of Singulair I suffered from asthma I was taking Spirivia inhaler 1 application in the morning and bricnal inhaler twice in the morning noon and evenings, I was constantly out of breath and started increasing
each dosage, I had a perminent cough I suffered from deep depression was put on steroids for chest infections, as I was not able to do anything due to lack of air I thought I was going to croak at anytime all I did was sleep all the time as soon as I sat in a chair I fell asleep it was very embarrassing if you were in company. I could not stand it any longer. I went to the asthma clinic and told the nurse that the inhalers were doing nothing for me so she looked for something that might help. I was prescribed Singulair what a change I have gone from an old man to a young man there is no holding me back now the cough, flem, constant wheezing all the symptoms have gone when you here someone say its a miracle you think they are crackpots well I am now one of those crackpots my life is totally change for the better I have a new lease of life and I am enjoying it to the full as the nurse says like all medicines some work for people some dont but this certainly works for me hallelula, all inhalers have been dicarded its a miracle. And the amazing thing is that the tablet is very small.

By: Melissa

Melissa — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 19:00:46 +0000

Hi Krystal,

Thank you for your comment. Ava is doing much better than she was at this time last year but she still has some quirky anxieties. However they are much MUCH more manageable now. It has been nearly two years since she stopped the Singulair.

Best wishes!

Melissa

By: Krystal

Krystal — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 21:55:58 +0000

My daughter is 7 and has been diagnosed with OCD. She has been on Singulair for almost 6 years. We thought it was a wonder drug because her asthma symptoms all but disappeared when she started taking it. I stopped giving her Singulair yesterday after reading some disturbing stories about the side effects. Maybe I’m grasping at straws, hoping for a solution that doesn’t involve years of therapy and psychopharmaceuticals. I was hoping you could give us an update on your daughter. I’m wondering if her mood, etc improved long term when she was no longer on the singulair.

By: Melissa

Melissa — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 21:42:02 +0000

Thanks for the well wishes Alex & Jen. She’s been on Advair for several months now and is doing great. We’re heading in to respiratory illness season so I’m hoping our good fortune holds up.

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 02:50:26 +0000

As a college student dependent on singular to be able to function, I have to say it helps a bit to understand what and how the drug does. I can’t even imagine what it must be like to a five year old to have her emotions toyed with like this drug does. Even knowing what I do about neurochemistry doesn’t help the depression and tiredness brought on by singulair.

But without it I don’t sleep. I’m glad your daughter isn’t noticing more symptoms without it, and hope she can make it with just the inhaler.

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By: Jenn

Jenn — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 13:32:24 +0000

Awesome news. Here’s to hoping for good asthma control sans Singulair!