Eye drops symptoms and conditions

Back in April I came down with a Sinus infection (I basically can diagnose myself because this is all I get these days). Well, the doc told me that since I hadn't had the wretched sickness 7 days (I was on day 5), that i would have to wait til Monday. I wish I had picked a fight, because by Monday, my throat was so swollen I couldn't swallow my own saliva! I had to refreeze EVERYTHING to numb my throat before even trying to drink any thing. So, I went to my physician and he prescribed me omniceff. Usually that does the trick, but by that Wednesday (day 9), I had trouble breathing, my sinus got backed up and caused pink eye, and apparently I also had Laryngitis. I went back to my physician, bent over and begged for a shot of something (my family knew I was bad if I was begging to come face-to-face with my phobia). So they gave me a shot, pink-eye eye drops, and other items. All samples so I wouldn't have to pay for the very expensive prescriptions.
By that Friday, I still hadn't gotten better and found myself living over the trash can because the mucus was so bad I vomited anything warm. He sent me to the Ear-Nose-Throat doc for the following Monday.
Phew, this doc helped me. He was the one to find that my sinus caused a respiratory infection and Laryngitis. He prescribed me Avelox and gave me a stern warning to read all the side effects and eat a good amount of food and to keep track of any issues I have with it.
So I went home with my Avelox samples and took one after eating a large bowl of grits with eggs...I hadn't eaten like that in 2 weeks, so I was praying to keep it down. Once I finished eating, I did my online research and found that Avelox is almost the last prescription they give you before sending you to the hospital and that it was the same prescription as the pink-eye eye drops only in pill form!!! I noticed that if I didn't eat a high-caloric diet while on Avelox, I paid severely with stomach aches, nausea, dizziness, and sometimes cramping and vomiting!!! The doc was serious.
I was on this med for almost a month before I kicked the crap out of my infections!

Restasis was prescribed for my severe dry eyes, but when i started using it 6 months ago, the dryness worsened. Aside from the burning sensation all the tim, redness persisted. It was even more bearable with just over the counter eye drops like artificial tears and genteal. I just recently started using restasis again 2 weeks ago, hoping for a better outcome. Unfortunately, it has not been of any help whatsoever and seems to exacerbate my dry eye condition. Restasis is definitely not a wonder drug. (It should be though for the amount it costs!)

Has anyone else had problems wearing contact lenses with Yasmin? I've been on it for about three years now -- about a year ago my eyes started completely rejecting my contact lenses. I'm at the point where I can't wear them anymore. I'm thinking of changing to a different medication to see if that helps, but I don't know if it's just my eyes, the Yasmin, or all birth control. I know there is a definite connection, I've done some research. Has anyone else experienced this side effect?

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I have been on topamax for 5 months now. I first learned of this drug after holidaying in USA (i'm from UK!) and after suffering from horrendous migraines for years, with no relief, finally this drug has really helped. However it is certainly not without its side effects. One thing that i have noticed but no one else seems to have noted, so i'm not sure whether it is peculiar to me or not....is dry eyes??? My eyes are so dry all of the time. I am using eye drops 3 or 4 times a day and this is only since i've been on topamax. I'm interested to see if anyone else has noticed anything similar?

Also, noticed facial tingling..(pins and needles like) and feel like i have a chest infection all of the time. I also am very forgetful and where once i was incredibly articulate, my memory is definitely impaired. VERY frustrating and embarassing in business situations....BUT i rarely have a migraine and for that i am thankful!

I had a stye/ staff infection in my right eye. It was swollen and severely hurting me. Well, my doctor put me on sulfameth and a eyedrop antibiotic. I don't mind taking the eye drops, but these pills are making me feel horrible. I am on 1 pill twice daily for 10 days. I asked the doctor and the pharmacist if this stuff causes constipation and they both said no. Well, I haven't been able to use the bathroom well since I started it. My muscles twitch, my eyes are sensitive to the sunlight, I can't go to sleep easily, I've been itching up a storm, and I have headaches. I want to just stop the medication but if I do then I will never get rid of this infection in my eye. I figured I'd stop the meds in the middle of the week. I hate feeling bloated and constipated. Has anyone else had the constipation effect?

I started taking some form of lisinopril (5-10 mg) ten years ago when I needed to lose 20-30 pounds, and had a mild BP problem. Now I need to lose 50-80 pounds, even though I no longer eat boxes of cookies, candy bars, packaged foods, salty snacks, crackers. No soft drinks (no diet either). Gave up butter, eggs, cheese last October. I also stopped baking cookies and cakes. I haven't lost 20 pounds yet. I too think my doctor is a quack and in cahoots with the drug pushers. They try to make you think every pain and discomfort is your weight and from what I'm reading, it's that %#@& snake poison. I forgot to mention the itchy eyes and the cough. I thought I was allergic to my house. I wake up reaching for the Visine. My doctor subscribed a tiny bottle of eye drops that cost $100. Yes, that's what I said. Once, about 5 or 6 years ago, I woke up and my head was the size of a prize winning pumpkin. Never did figure out what caused it, until now. Thanks for letting me vent. :-)

I have been taking Prednisone for my Gout conditions, and after a recent visit to the eye doctor I found out that they Prednisone gave me Glacoma conditions. I now have increased eye pressure build up. At this time there is no nerve damage, but as a result of the medication I now have to use eye drops twice a day for the rest of my life. I am no l onger on this medication, and since I have also found a new doctor. I am interested in hearing more stories like this and what have other results have been.

I added a side effect several days ago. I would like to respond to the people who are asking if this ever goes away. I suppose it is an individual thing but I am feeling better every day. I've been off the Levaquin for over a week now and no more pain in feet, elbow is much better, fatigue is lessening. The funny thing is my husband went to the doctor for pink eye yesterday and the doc prescribed Levaquin, as well as eye drops. He has taken it in the past with no side effects so he went ahead and got the prescription filled. He asked the doctor about my reaction to it and he said he'd never heard of such a thing! I find that hard to believe. Anyway, my doctor said she'd heard of it but that it was rare and noted it on my chart as an "allergic reaction". So good luck everyone. You can fill out an adverse reaction form at www.fda.gov/medwatch/report/consumer/consumer.htm Hopefully, if enough people complain they will at least inform patients that such drastic side effects are possible for some people.

I am now trying Singulair for the second time. It has been a couple of years but the Dr. insisted it would help control my asthma. My problem again is very dry eyes so dry that when I try to watch TV I have to close them. I have tried several eye drops and they only last a few minutes. Has anyone else had this problem?

I was on Aromasin for fifteen days and developed dry eye syndrome. I could cope with this if it was confined to having a gritty feeling in the eyes, but I also have bad visual distortions and have gone from having 20/20 vision to not being able to drive. I saw an opthalmologist immediately who recommended eye drops, flax seed oil pills, warm compresses, etc.. I had been using all but the flax seed oil prior to his diagnosis, and so far have only had a little improvement in visual acuity (after not taking Aromasin for two weeks). I was on Tamoxifen for almost ten months, and then Femara for one month. I had severe musculoskeletal pain with the Femara and took a med. break of almost two weeks before trying the Aromasin. Thanks for listening--Dorothy

I had to take a urinalysis test for a new job, the test came back positive for marijuana, I called my family doctor, she advised me that the Diamox (acetazolamide) caused this results, I'm trying to still get this job. I have glaucoma on my left eye and it so severe that I have to take 2 pills a day and 3 times the eye drops. I recommend all of you out there that take this medication and are working in a place where you take random testing, to advise your employer or site of testing about this medication. '

Keila:
YES! I have also been dehydrated. I carry dry-eye drops with me everywhere I go. My eyes were painfully dry. I used to be a constant contact lens wearer, but not anymore. I have been off Yasmin for 5 months and am just starting to wear my contacts a few hours about every other day. My eye prescription actually changed quite drastically during this time as well. Stay away from caffeine and you should eventually be fine. I drink lots of water, green tea (no caffeine), and cranberry juice. It will get better.
Virginia

I have been using Xalatan for over 5 years - I did not think that my hair loss was from these eye drops until recently someone told me they heard that it could be. If I stop these drops & use an alaternative will my hair start to grow back?

(23 year old female) I was prescribed Ciloxan for a bilateral stapf infection that was invading my corneas. In the drug insert they do mention the possibility of anaphylaxis shock after administering these eye drops however, they make it appear as if it is a very minmal and rare occurance. Within minutes of administering my first dosage I started having difficulty breathing. I am an asthmatic, so my automatic response was to take my inhaler. After a few more minutes I started experiencing, dizziness, headache, tingling in my head, and addominal pain. My mother rushed me over to the fire station ( I was getting worse during the drive to the hospital) Once there things started to calm down. The paramedic told me that the only thing that saved me from having a more severe reaction than what I had was my inhaler. They administer epinephrine to counteract an allergic reaction, and the effects of the inhaler act in the same manner as epinephrine. Anaphylaxis is a serious side effect, just because the insert says that it is a rare occurance, be prepared for anything. It can happen.

As long as I was using Econopred eye drops my facial complexion,area of eyes, nose, chin, was red, dry, scaly and itchy. When I quit using them, it began to clear up. A cream I use for skin problems would not help while I was using the drops, but began to help when I quit. Coincidental?

Am quest # 4859. After months off lipator, I tried 10 mg. for
the past ten days and again started having severe leg cramping.
Have noticed blurry vision and went to opthamologist and he
said I had some irregularity around both corneas that he was
stumped at and had know explaination for. Off lipator today and with eye drop lubricant only will recheck with optho doc
in a week to see if it has cleared before going to a conrea specialist. Blurry vision seems to be helped by otc eye drops
recommended by doc. He thinks it should get better. Will keep posted. Will inform him about Lipator side effect.

i was on 240mm of iv steriods and 80mm of pred, + 1m perd eye drops overa period of 2months for a mutli system autoimmune disease, which was tapered to 40mm pred + 200mm ive steriods to only 40 in 4 days. this caused me to believe for 2 days that someone or something would seriouly harm me to the point that i could not leave the room i was in. i also experienced fits, floating type feeling ( like my legs where over my head when i was lying on a bed) to the point that i was bed ridden for 3 days, blackouts, confusion, serious depression and musclue weakness ( again to the point that i was bed riden for a number a days.
i have since found out that i was withdrawn to quickly from the 200m dose but i have also found out that you can get these probs if you withdraw from any high dose to quickly. am happy to say 2 weeks later and alot of these have gone but still on 40mm oral pred so some of it could be due to that as well! i guess we all just have to stay as postive as we can and remeber its not us, its the medication we have to take that is causing this prob or that and remember we are all superstars as there will never be anyone evere just like you!

I recently recieved my last Lupron shot - my sixth. Overall, my experience with side effects has been mild. I have not had any hot flashes. I do however have some nights sweats and my body seems to struggle in regulating its temperature at night. Sometimes I'm hot - moments later I may be chilly. I had daily headaches for the first 2-3 weeks when I started the lupron - but the headaches were mild - mostly a nusance. I'm not sure if I gained wieght. If I did, it was not much. I have had a little trouble sleeeping. And my bones feel sort of weak. My eyes have been exceptionally dry, but nothing eye drops can't rememdy. My breasts have shrunk slightly. I find that my moods are okay, but when I get angry, I feel Really angry. - which is not characteristic of me. - but I'm not having severe swings.

On a toally positive note, the lupron made an immediate difference in the pain I experienced from my endometriosis. I didn't realize the number of days I'd be in considerable pain - until that pain was gone. Not having a period for several months has been wonderful. - although, no one told me this - the first month I had my final period and it was exceptionally heavy and the pain from it was worse than usual. However since then, no periods and no pain.

I was afraid to try this drug because of all the horror stories. But, I've done okay and if this can keep the endometriosis away, it'll have been worth it.

I'd recommend to others that they try the 1 month shots to start. That way you can stop after a month if the side effects are too unbearble.

I live in the UK and suffer with severe hayfever. The last three years and twice about 13 years ago I have had 40mg of Kenalog, it is wonderful!.
From March I take antihistamins, nasal spray and eye drops and have even tried acupunture to try and releive my symptons but nothing works apart from Kenalog.
I have tried long and hard to find out long term side effects but there seems to be no formal study done of this drug. It is a risk, but I am fed up with spending 6 months of the year sneezing, eyes wateringm, asthma and feeling generally rubbish. Kenalog works for me it is like magic, within 2 days all my symptoms dissapear. Fortunatley I have never suffered from any side effects. Although my doctor is not over keen on me having it he understands I cannot do my job properly when I am suffering so badly with hayfever.

I was recently prescribed 500 mg of Levaquin per day (for a total of 10 days) to treat a sinus infection and a staph infection of the eye (the systemic Levaquin was in addition to Ciloxin eye drops).

I have almost always been prescribed Zithromycin for infections in the past, which I have used without incident.

All I can say is that I'm on day 7 of the Levaquin now and I'm having several very weird side effects.

I'm anxious as hell, irritable, terrible nightmares, flashes of hot and cold that seem to have nothing to do with the actual temperature of the environment. This Levaquin seems to be having effects on me that are more akin to a psychotropic drug than a regular antibiotic.

I did some research on the web and found out that fluoroquinolone antibiotics compete with GABA receptors in the brain, which means that, at least for some people, the fluoroquinolone antibiotics such as Levaquin will have an effect on them that is pretty much the opposite of valium . . . instead of calming you down . . . it ramps up your central nervous system and can seemingly cause all sorts of weird things.

At least for me, I don't think I'll be wanting to take this Levaquin drug ever again. I can't say it's bad for all people, but it's been a very unsettling experience for me.

I have COPD and use an Albuterol nebulizer 4x a day. I have a very hoarse voice. Could the nebulizer be the cause?
Also using Advair Discus and my glacoma readings have gone up 4 points. Now using two eye drops: Xalatan 2.5ml once a day and 10m; of Alphagan twice a day. What else can I do to lower my glacome readings?

This is in reponse to a message dated Tue, 31 Dec 2002 19:42:56 -0500. Regarding eye pressure (glacoma). My father started taking zocor first. When both of them went to the Eye doctor for annual visit, my father had abnormal pressure in his eyes. My mother was normal. 3 months later my mother went on Zocor and started seeing flashing in her right eye. A visit to the eye doctor revealed that she has abnormal eye pressure in both eyes. Another 3 months later, she was given eye drops for treating glacoma. I would recommend that everyone get their eyes checked. Doctor's do not believe this is a side effect, but unless you go for a checkup you don't know there is eye pressure which leads to glaucoma.