The Connection Between Singulair, an Asthma Drug and Suicide?

Published May 18, 2010

http://www.drug-injury.com/druginjurycom/2009/06/mercks-popular-asthma-and-allergy-drug-singulair-associated-with-suicides–fda-has-gone-from-no-link-in-january-2009-to-wanti.html

I asked the recent spate of questions because depression is a complex issue. It comes from brain chemistry inbalances.

Because my son tried to kill himself when he was 10. He’s only alive today because the belt broke and he fell down and it loosened. If you think I think suicide is a joke, you are wrong. I am neither flippant nor mocking. I am deadly serious. I’m not angry, not furious, not annoyed at outbursts and name calling. I’m not implying anything about natural mothers on here. I’m not taking swipes at adult adoptees. Supplying links to studies is not a straw man gambit. I am not arguing with you about your views.

If you are parenting a foster child which you adopted that is showing signs of distress or reactive behavior, you need to know ALL the different possibilities that go into your child’s recovery.

My son was a small birth weigh baby. He was born exposed to drugs, cocaine. He is impulsive, irritable, asthmatic, with gastric reflux, (which caused the asthma, btw,) and suffers from sensory integration issues.

He was treated by a therapist and several of them with different modalities since he was three. We understand trauma and loss, we were foster parents. Not rainbow adoptive ones. We acknowledge his pain. We work through his abandonment issues. We discuss his mother and how he feels about adoption and culture issues. We do the work that is needed. We did not tell him to suck it up and dismiss his feelings.

We addressed his early abuse experiences in therapy, his mother tried to kill him, she tried to suffocate him, she is schizophrenic and scared the bejeesus out of him during court ordered visits, till he came home shaking and they cut the visits off for his own safety before his 2nd birthday. He had several placements before he came to us at 4 months old.

Growing up he hurt children and he killed animals. And he wanted to die. He hurt himself after he stopped hurting others.

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I’m sitting in the asthma doctors office and he tells me they have come out with a red label warning about Singulair and suicide ideations, a drug my son has taken for years for asthma, and he says but you don’t have to worry about that,

I sat there stunned. “He’s been suicidal these past 3 years”, I tell him. We look at each other for a full minute.

We took him off the medicine. It helped reduce some of his symptoms. Other things have helped as well. He stopped trying to die.

There are a significant number of adopted children from foster care with asthma. Parents need to know the connections to ANYTHING that can help them find out how to help their children.

The Connection Between Singulair, an Asthma Drug and Suicide?

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