Montelukast affects brain, caused 5 year old to attempt suicide

What is going on people? Why is the medical industrial complex trying to control our minds? So they can keep permanent customers?

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Government-backed research found that montelukast, sold under the brand name Singulair, attaches to cells in the brain that control mood, decision making, attention, impulse control and sleep. 

This research was prompted by thousands of tragic stories reported by families whose children were taking montelukast over the years - including Harrison Sellick who attempted suicide at just five years old. 

There have been 82 suicides linked to the drug that have been reported to the FDA's adverse event tracker since 1998 and the drug has been linked to depression, anxiety, agitation, nightmares and 'full psychosis'. 

The FDA added a black box label to the drug - the strictest warning that indicates the medication can lead to death or serious injury - in March 2020, and urged doctors to communicate these risks to patients. 

Ok. March 2020 they realized there's a problem? March 2020......

Montelukast was approved for medical use in the United States in 1998.It is available as a generic medication. In 2022, it was the seventeenth most commonly prescribed medication in the United States, with more than 29 million prescriptions.

This drug has been out since 1998! And it is the SEVENTEENTH MOST COMMONLY PRESCRIBED DRUG!

It isn't even the preferred treatment for asthma!

Montelukast is used for a number of conditions including asthma, exercise induced bronchospasm, allergic rhinitis, and urticaria. It is mainly used as a complementary therapy in adults in addition to inhaled corticosteroids, if inhaled steroids alone do not bring the desired effect. It is also used to prevent allergic reactions and asthma flare-ups during the administration of intravenous immunoglobulin. It may also be used as an adjunct therapy in symptomatic treatment of mastocytosis. It is taken by mouth, as a tablet, chewable tablet, or as granules.

It isn't even for acute asthma attacks according to Wikipedia it is for "maintenance of asthma" and yet it is the SEVENTEENTH most commonly prescribed drug.


So we have a 5 year old boy FIVE! Attempting suicide because of these mind warping drugs. Many other people too.

And it only took them 22 years to figure this out and NOT PULL THE DRUG, just put a black box warning on it and keep giving it out like candy.

Prescriptions for montelukast have remained steady since the warning was added and the FDA said it does not plan to update the drug label based on data from the presentation, which has yet to be released publicly. 

Now why would they just keep prescribing a drug that causes such serious mental health effects?

A 2017 analysis from Kiplinger, a business forecasting company, suggested that the drug had made Merck nearly $50billion in sales since it came on the market. 

In early advertising, the company said the side effects were so benign they were 'similar to a sugar pill,' while the label said the effect on the brain was minimal. 

MONEY! OF COURSE. 50 BILLION IN 20 YEARS!

I wonder how many people this medication has driven to suicide and psychosis in the last 26 years and family members, loved ones HAD NO IDEA this medication did that?

This is why GREED is a sin. Should be a sin. Killing children, causing what may be irreparable damage to people mentally ALL TO MAKE A BUCK!

We know where anyone involved in this medical industrial complex is going..........

The people who believe big pharma’s intent is to heal also believe the news media intent is to tell factual truths and the government only intent is to keep them safe.

I feel for them imagine believing all that and having to reconcile their world view that the truths they hold are actually inverted. I think it’s actually to much for people and they default to swallowing the blue pill because the red pill is much to painful for them.
a reply to: Shoshanna

Welcome to the business of "Human FARMacology" 😎

a reply to: Shoshanna

I wonder how many mass shooters were on this drug? They will never tell us.

a reply to: Shoshanna

Never was informed about the black box warning, have been taking it for years. Coincidentally have had issues with anxiety, depression, mood swings, etc. Guess I'll be having a conversation with my doctor soon.

No wonder America is full of people with mental illness, sadly mostly side effects of medications they take.

I love the warning that said, that even when the mediation causes terrible side effects that can affect your life, the doctor believes the medication benefits will outweigh the side effects,

Right now after early breast cancer, I was told I needed an antihormone pill, when I read the side effects I was petrified, if I have taken the pill I would have been on about 10 more medications to take care of the side effects and still would have become incapacitated.

Big pharma is not in the business of finding cures they are in the business of having you as part of their money gravy train for life.

a reply to: Shoshanna

I have been on Montelukast for at least 2 years, I take one every day.....I am fine, never felt better.

I've noticed if I don't get my prescription filled on time every 90 days and I miss 3 or 4 days, I definitely notice a difference in symptoms.

There are lots of medicines where side effects are worse than the disease they are treating. You need to know how to read the percentages of each side effect, thirty side effects at one percent means it is possible thiry people will have one of these side effects but often people get up two at a time, so that means fifteen percent of people could have a side effect average....all those one percents add up, add to that the different two percents and five percents.

The numbers of side effects are very deceptive. And of course, initially a med will have few known side effects....so update your research on your medicine as the years go on. Doctors have been giving a secondary or even third medication to hide the side effects which those might stop or mask the original side effect but then create side effects of their own.

Doctors often do not know the side effects of new medicines well, and after you have prescribed a med for years, are you going to tell your patient that the medicine they have been on has created other problems? They often change the medication without telling the patient when evidence comes out that the medicine is bad, then new medicines with unknown long term side effects are prescribed....and the cycle continues.

I feel bad for doctors who have sold their souls to cover up the meds that they prescribe and the soul selling is because they don't believe the patient's problems are because of a metabolic side effect. I can go on and on how the tests they give just look for failure of the liver from a med and do not tell the whole story. Why don't they do those other blood tests that look for issues with metabolism detoxing the med before the liver failure chemical tests show it is failing. If the level of the med is too high in the blood, more than it is supposed to be consistantly, it means a person cannot break it down which over times causes swelling and liver problems. Also the kidneys can be effected. And even other organs can be effected.

But those tests cannot be done without evidence the condition is happening or the insurance will not allow that test....it sucks.

I am glad now I got out of pre-med in the seventies, actually I quit it even though my whole college through medical school was covered because I did not like what they were teaching doctors to be...like "don't feel bad about taking the patients money because they don't know how to eat". I never went back to class again after that and dropped out of college after I found that a year and a half of classes I tested out of couldn't be applied if I changed to EE

I was prescribed Singulair in 1998 and after a couple of months I began having horrendous earaches. The ONLY other time I'd had an earache in my life was a case of 'swimmers ear' when I was 14.

I was sent to an ENT who could find no cause. They eventually stopped until I refilled my Singulair perscription, after having been out for over a month. On the third day the earache was back; bingo! lol

I checked the insert, and sure enough; in 'less than' 2% of people taking it will suffer from searaches.

Doctor didn't believe me; he'd never heard of such a thing. I had to pull out the insert and show him.

It's interesting that many of these popular drugs cause more issues.

Around 2017-2019, I kept getting these fancy mailers about Dupixent. Plus, there would be a commercial about the drug in almost every show.

For this of you who don't know Dupixent is a drug for asthma and other conditions.
It's a shot that costs at least $15,000 per year.

All those slick ads worked on me because in March 2019, I made an appointment to start the drug. Due to Covid I never started.

Glad I waited because Dupixent works by reducing eosinophil levels.

Guess what is associated with severe Covid - low level of eosinophils.
They found out asthmatics were dying less from Covid because of having high level of eosinophils.

Interesting. I've been on the stuff for at least 15 years and it has helped tremendously with asthma and no problems being crazy. No saying it doesn't affect some people, just no issues for me.

That is the big issue with big pharma, when they make their miracle pills, they only use one way or the highway, meaning one size for all.

They do not take in consideration many of the preexisting conditions of most people.

Then when a person comes out with a side effect that is incapacitating them, many doctors just shake out and turn a blind eye.

One size does not fit all.

originally posted by: marg6043


Big pharma is not in the business of finding cures they are in the business of having you as part of their money gravy train for life.

That's correct....Capitalism, making money for the investors that gambled their hard earned money, buying stock in a corporation that makes something.

Isn't that the craziest thing you ever heard?

a reply to: Shoshanna

Reminds me of the anti malaria pill Lariam

I remember other backpackers taking it in the late 90s and hearing stories about them losing the plot, getting paranoid and even suicidal. I avoided it, sticking to Chloroquine

Then it turned out that Lariam did indeed cause these symptoms; depression, psychosis, suicide.

In the Netherlands during 1998 and 1999, mefloquine was respectively the most and the second most cited drug in spontaneous reports of drug-related illness made to the Lareb Pharmacovigilance Foundation.

A survey of the recent literature shows that mefloquine has been causally associated with 19 deaths in users, including three suicides

And most disturbing of all:

Though still prescribed in most countries, both for preventing and treating malaria, Lariam is now known to cause neurotoxicity.

A lesson learnt: the rise and fall of Lariam and Halfan

We all know that pharma is aware of bad side effects far sooner than they admit. $pecial place in hell for those state sanctioned drug dealers

a reply to: Shoshanna

pffttt... your crazy man. Violence in America are guns' fault. Stop picking on the poor innocent pharma drugs and ban the guns man .