Tamoxifen to blame for my eye troubles?
I've have been on Tamoxifen for about 8 months and am 54. In the last couple of weeks my left eye has suddenly gone like a mosaic of snow flakes in vision (comes and goes) and my optometrist found a b...
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After 2.5hours and 6 different sorts of drops he offered no real explanation apart from it 'might' be 90 day glaucoma? I was sent home with no meds, no drops no nothing and told to come back in 3 weeks on the last day of their office being open before the Christmas break.
I told my mum and she said to take low dose aspro which I have started. I am also taking bio magnesium and vitamin C. I have modified my diet and bought some moisture drops for my eyes.
I am not sure if I will bother attending the next "specialist" appointment as it just seems a way for them to drum up business without actually curing anything at all.
Its only early days but my eye has settled a bit on the aspro, etc. and I can at least bend over and pick something up off the floor without having a blind spasm. When I get up of a morning now instead of grey snowflakes in one eyes vision, I just get a flickering off to one side.
I don't have high blood pressure. I don't have diabetes. My eye pressures with specsavers was good. The private specialist didn't say if they thought they were good or bad. He said I had thin retinas but didn't offer an explanation why and my 20 questions of is it from chemo, Tamoxifen, etc. didn't yield anything except, no, no, no.
Oncology said I haven't been on Tamoxifen anywhere long enough for it to be safe to stop taking it and the alternative ones also carry eye disorder warnings.
I told my mum and she said to take low dose aspro which I have started. I am also taking bio magnesium and vitamin C. I have modified my diet and bought some moisture drops for my eyes.
I am not sure if I will bother attending the next "specialist" appointment as it just seems a way for them to drum up business without actually curing anything at all.
Its only early days but my eye has settled a bit on the aspro, etc. and I can at least bend over and pick something up off the floor without having a blind spasm. When I get up of a morning now instead of grey snowflakes in one eyes vision, I just get a flickering off to one side.
I don't have high blood pressure. I don't have diabetes. My eye pressures with specsavers was good. The private specialist didn't say if they thought they were good or bad. He said I had thin retinas but didn't offer an explanation why and my 20 questions of is it from chemo, Tamoxifen, etc. didn't yield anything except, no, no, no.
Oncology said I haven't been on Tamoxifen anywhere long enough for it to be safe to stop taking it and the alternative ones also carry eye disorder warnings.