Experiences with

Zafirlukast

Has anyone had any bad experience in taking Zafirlukast? I can't take Singular and was prescribed Zafirlukast but can't find many reviews on this med. I also split my 20 mg pill and take only 10 mg/day. Has anyone tried this method.

The medicine is called Zafirlukast. Has anyone experienced weight gain? I am very concentrated on physical activity and maintaining my current weight. Any feedback will be helpful! Thanks!

Hi all, I have just stopped zafirlukast as this has been discontinued and put back onto montelukast which doesnt do great things for me. Is anyone else in the same situation and been switched to something completely different.

Hi, I have been on zafirlukast 20mgs twice daily for about 10years and recently have been told that this drug has been discontinued. Before starting this drug I had tried montelukast but is gave me abnormal vivid dreams which become horrendous so I had to stop it and go on Zafirlukast.

Hi, does anyone know if there is any alternative to this medication. I would really like to stop taking it because of the side effects, but every time I try my asthma flares up again.

Hi everyone - I am back on montelukast (was on zafirlukast) and I’m struggling with bad dreams and headaches. The first time I was on this I gave up quickly because I felt so horrible. Then the consultant got me back on it and after ( I think) a month I felt better.

I have a home nebuliser, relvar ellipta salbutamol fexofenadine zafirlukast omeprazole and ranetidine and epipen. In the last few years I've been pretty much constantly off and on prednisolone. My own GP wanted me to try steroid injection to get better control and avoid the tablets.

As a practical matter, most clinicians select an oral LTRA (montelukast, zafirlukast) for initial therapy, rather than the 5-lipoxygenase (5-LO) inhibitor zileuton, as zileuton requires twice daily administration, periodic monitoring of liver function tests, and has some potential drug interactions.

I usually take revlar elipta, zafirlukast, fexofenadine, omeprazole. I am using the nebuliser in the morning to get pf up before I do my revlar ellipta. I think I'm just run down (and very mumpy) any ideas what I should try?

I'm on revlar ellipta 184 and zafirlukast, there's no option of doubling up doses with the revlar ellipta. Just not sure what to do as I really don't want to be ill over Christmas and I really don't want to take yet another course of pred...

For anyone interested in this topic but without direct experience of these drugs, below is a brief explanatory extract pinched from the web: '.....Leukotriene receptor antagonists, such as montelukast, zafirlukast, and pranlukast, and 5-lipoxygenase inhibitors, like zileuton and hypericum perforatum,

***in short: corticosteroids (prednisolone, beclomethasone, fluticasone) suppress the immune system locally (in the lungs), reducing the response of the WBCs, thus reducing inflammation; leukotriene receptor antagonists (montelukast, zafirlukast) block receptors in the lungs to chemicals called leukotrienes

Hi all, My first post on here but mainly done out of shear frustration, my asthma is out of control and has been since february, currently on spiriva respimat, qvar, serevent, airomir, zafirlukast, fexofendine, daily preds and home Nebs, seeing consultant every 3 week.

Eventually my pharmacist decided it was most likely to be the Montelukast so she changed me on to Zafirlukast as she said this was not known to cause the same side effects.

I was reading Japanese website that sometime Japanese endo girls get leukotriene receptor antagonist (LTRAs) as a painkiller. http://www.asthma.ca/adults/treatment/leukotriene.php Endo ladies who is also has asthma had this tablets and their pain have improved. These ladies had not respond with

Have been taking Accolate, (zafirlukast) for a long time. am wondering if anyone has had experience of these meds. Now been told I have abnormal blood levels. More tests results next week. I never knew there was a site like this

The current drugs: Seretide Uniphyllin Zafirlukast (formerly Accolate) Ventolin (inhaler and nebs when needed) Preds (at least 6 times a year) Anyway, back to the subject.

The GP has said that there is also zafirlukast out there which is the same family but which might suit better. Has anyone swapped from montelukast to zafirlukast and found it better or worse? Or has anyone found a way of minimising the montelukast side effects? Many thanks

Hi everybody I usually post on the parents bit but I was wondering if anyone knew anything about zafirlukast. My 4 year old daughter's cons said yesterday that if upping her current meds doesn't stabilise her asthma then he would put her on this.

Zafirlukast. Anyone else ravenously hungry about an hour after taking the tablet?