double vision

[pinkbody2]

Has anyone experienced double vision? It came on very suddenly and go worse in a months time. My friend is a pharmacist at my cancer center and has been doing her research. Some studies show Letrozole could be the culprit? I’m also taking 4-600mg gabapentin for sleep and night sweats. Gabapentin also has a listed side effect of double vision. On top of everything else I just want my vision back if possible.

[Kerryd22]

I had vision problems on Letrazole and on Panadol but it’s morphed into dry eye on Exemestane. I can’t decide if that’s better or worse tbh. Can you try something else from gabapentin? Letrazole didn’t work for me so I wasn’t on it long. I saw an optometrist but she said there were no problems with my vision so any complaint must have been treatment related. It’s a nuisance but at least dry eye can be helped by using eye drops.

[mariootsi]

It's amazing all the side effects out treatments have!

[Granny333]

Hi pinkbody2, I had double vision last year and my eye doctor put prisms in my glasses but I don’t think that it was medication doing it. Any how the prisms worked for me

[TammyCross]

I had double vision before I got mbc, and had the hardest time getting it diagnosed. My jaw also hurt and it was hard to open my mouth. I went to three doctors twice but nothing. Because I was mainly complaining of jaw pain and not so much about eyesight, all three thought I was grinding my teeth.

Finally I googled it (jaw pain and double vision) and went back to my primary doc with a thought. She ran a test, a simple blood test, then called me at 7 the next morning and told me to get to the pharmacy and start taking 60 mg prednisone, and to schedule a biopsy. Turned out I had giant cell arteritis. I might have gone blind if I hadn't googled it. An artery in my left temple had large cells that can travel to your eye and cause a stroke. Before MBC, I became a proselytizer about GCA. It is unusual but not extremely rare and under-diagnosed. I used to tell every woman over 50, especially if from Scandinavia or northern England, to get to a doctor fast if they had these symptoms. The good news is that it tends to go away after 18-24 months.

But it sounds like a side effect in your case. I would agree that trying something other than gabapentin is a good idea. Seems like a bit of overkill for insomnia.

[Widdershins3]

I got double/blurred vision just recently after going on Xeloda. I have an MRI coming up to rule out a new crop of tiny brain tumors, so if it's not that, then I'm guessing it's Xeloda. I guess I need to go re-read that huge side-effects list for it again. Ugh.