medication and suicide thoughts

[Guest guest]

I'm sure everyone has seen the various ads on tv for different medications and

they give all the warnings and many of them mention 'thoughts of suicide'.

In recent weeks my sister and I were comparing various asthma meds we are on, I

noticed she was not taking singular. I asked and she responded she had horrible,

violent dreams while on singular.

I had a personal trauma a year ago and have been very distraught, but not

depressed nor would the counselor or my primary care physician put me on any

anti-depressants. This past summer I found a new project to put my energies into

and I should have been fine... but instead I calmly think about suicide all the

time. My best friend expresses her concern that I talk about it like I'm going

to exchange a handbag.

She's right, this is not normal and I know this. I am wondering if the problem

my sister had with the singular could be causing this in me. And then a friend

suggested it might be the symbicort. I take Uniphyl, Singular, use Symbicort,

albuterol nebulizer treatments and have been getting Xolair injections for over

two years (and I've been off steroids eleven months).

Please don't preach to me, I have made an appointment to see my pulmonologist

and I will tell him about this Tuesday and pose these questions to him. He might

also send me for a cat scan, I had a brain tumor successfully removed in 2003

and there is always the possibility that another small lesion has become a mass.

I just wondered if anyone else has had any of these thoughts or dreams while on

any asthma meds/treatments?