usually some of the terms and the guidance that i see is that before allergy season some physicians or healthcare providers will start you on singulair maybe a month or two before allergy season hits so it’s in your bloodstream; so it has a constant and steady effect; so therefore by the time allergy season comes it’s working. and how does it work? well typically when you have allergy season your cells are all happy and they’re all behaving. in an allergy attack they all go crazy. what singulair tries to do is it tries to keep them all happy and behaving before it even gets to that point of kind of revolting in a lot of ways. so that makes a lot of sense when i explain that to patients because then they realize that they have to take it every day and that it’s not something that they take at the onset of a sneezing attack or runny eyes or a runny nose. so it could take probably up to 30 days before they’ll notice something. i -- but once again what we’ve learned too is that therapy has to be individualized and how i take something and how you take something might be completely different. a lot of people don’t realize how important it is to take your medicine on a consistent basis. that’s where you really get the value and actually the benefits of the medicine because if it’s only once a day you know it’s not a big deal; but i say to patients i’m like “you know if you skipped five or six days that’s gonna effect how you feel”. and a lot of people don’t put two and two together. so i want to make sure that people understand that there are benefits to taking your medicine every single day.
my allergy doctor put me on singulair. how long before i should start to feel better?