Steroid Induced Ocular Hypertension:-
I was told by a consultant at the Eye Hospital to use Lantanoprost eye drops for this condition. He "warned" me that one of side effects was darker longer eye lashes and a possible change of eye colour. I laughed because I thought he was having a joke, he wasn't.
Did I get darker longer eye lashes, nope, I did not.
One of the side effects from a drug I would have l liked and it was denied me; gutted!!
Can I ask
1. do you wear glasses?
2. do you have the start of cataracts?
I have worn reading glasses for years now. I don't have the start of cataracts. Last hospital visit was in Aug 2017 and the eye pressures were normal. No mention of any other problems.
Good, if you had the start of Cataracts and wear glasses then you would need to ask for Re-actolite Rapide lense. Pred and Sun is not a good idea as sometimes (not everybody) can cause those cataracts to grow.
I had a good optician and she changed my specs immediately (I had varilux) and also made me get night driving glasses. I had the start of cataracts and nearly 11 years down the line - they have not grown.
Thanks for the info jinasc, funnily enough I wear sunglasses whenever I go outside, the eye drops tend to make the eye a bit light sensitive.
Life can be odd sometimes, I only learned about pred, sunlight and cataracts last year when an optician whose Mother has PMR came to a support group meeting to give us a talk and told us about the connection.
All these years down the line and still learning.
I think we all crave longer darker eyelashes - I’m so jealous of my grandsons’ - ages 18 & 22 years😠
That is so unfair!
Wasted on them!
But maybe not on any significant others they may have !!
The younger one hasn’t got a significant other as yet, but the elder does!
Yes and they don't even care!
I haven’t got them either,bummer. I do however live in hope. 😂
Funny but since preds I have longer thicker lashes
I do hope thay done go when sometime in the far distant future I am able to stop them
So do I - too thick sometimes and they brush the inside of my glasses!
After Rose54 and your post I'm going off to sulk now!!
Ditto!
Wish that had happened to me, but then I loved my 'moonface' as it took away the wrinkles and the 'chicken neck'. I was quite sad when the 'moonface' went.
Mind I was over the moon when GCA went into remission.
Sometimes, just occasionally a side effect makes you 🤔 in a good way😉
How long have you been in remission jinasc?
I didn't even get any joy from the moon face, or as my daughter called me, hamster chops. I had a lop sided mood face, one quite puffy and the other cheek in a different place.
Just when I think I have heard it all.......
I have MORE eyelashes, since the Pred... but in weird places, like in the corners of my eye!!!! I'll see an eyelash there and try wiping it away, until I realise it's actually GROWING out of the corner of my eye! Weird.
He is right one of the side effects is changes in the number of eyelashes, also their length, thickness and even colour. It also can cause browning of the iris.
I take lantanaprost and did get t longer lashes! The y curl in weird ways and some are white, but with mascara makes them look fabulous. One good thing!
I hope my eye color doesn’t change, I like them green.
DAMN! Ain't that always the way!
No my eyelashes are the same length as they were dispute the eye drops ! Typical as u say none of the wanted side effects, just the unwanted. Ok just bring it on 😐
Hi, I am on those eye drops and boy my lashes are lovely and thick and dark and long !!! Don't need mascara ! Also got hairs on face and mustache due to preds 😭 Never ending ! Just upped my preds to 10mg AGAIN !! pain to much for me now in hips so fingers crossed. You will get your eyelashes soon 🙂
That's it now, I'm going off to sulk again.
I won't get nice thick dark eye lashes, I've been using those eye drops for nearly 17 months. Lucky you.
Wow you should have them by now, question? When you put your drops in, do you by any chance wipe outside of your eyes/ lashes ??? If so that's the reason. I just dab under eyes and leave it like that x
Hi Margaret1951, no I don't wipe the excess off at all, it tells you to do that to avoid the "side effects", so of course, as one does....I did the opposite!
Same as me as I always do opposite lol lol I have never had side effects on these. But let you into a secret, I do mine every other night 😱 Don't tell anyone on here 😂😂😂😂😂😂 just get fed up of all this , do this do that (sigh) I have had no remission since having all this 6 years. Got down to 7.5mg then flare ups and back up to 10mg today !! Pain is unbearable today in hips and now got pain in eye etc fed up !
Chronic pain is so debilitating I'm sorry that you are going through it right now. You get those "sweet" do-gooders who tell you to focus on something else while in pain, they tell you that that is how to deal with it. They probably have never had so much as a cut finger to deal with. Makes you want to smack them in their self righteous chops.
I've got a little secret as well, we will keep it to ourselves. I forget to do my drops at the weekends.
How naughty are we!!
Actually you do get "side effects" from the eye drops, (you lucky girl), hence your lovely lashes.
I have thick eyebrows also but I never shape them as God did our body, he forgot to take away all my pain though and give me a nice body again and a normal face etc wonder what I did in my life to deserve all this !
Sorry for moaning but feel down today and can't do anything and I am not a lazy woman !
You're not moaning, you are telling it as it is. Don't even think about trying to do anything when you feel so awful.
I'm sending my special good vibes to you, sorry I can't do anymore, these diseases are too much to handle sometimes.
Take care
Prims
They can tell me to focus on whatever they want but it don't help me x
No, I don't think that the idea is any good anyway.
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