 [ Symptoms ] my allergy doctor put me on singulair how long before i should start to feel better [ Disease ] 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 is in your bloodstream so it has a constant and steady effect so therefore by the time allergy season comes it is working and how does it work well typically when you have allergy season your cells are all happy and they are 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 is 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 will notice something i    but once again what we have 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 do not realize how important it is to take your medicine on a consistent basis that is where you really get the value and actually the benefits of the medicine because if it is only once a day you know it is not a big deal but i say to patients i am like “you know if you skipped five or six days that is gonna effect how you feel” and a lot of people do not 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