Lumigan and eyelashes
Common Questions and Answers about Lumigan and eyelashes
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regarding Lumigan and others like it, have people experienced growth of eyebrows and hair elsewhere as well like scalp hair? or is there good understanding of the active ingredients,that they can also help brows and scalp hair too?
I am not only thinning fair eyelashes, but also fair hair and eyebrows and in my 40s with only slight graying. so has lumigan been studied long enough to know if fair skinned/hair people get similar darkening and lenghtening benefits?
I think i suffer from trichotillomania too... It's so reassuring to know that other people are just like me and this forum is so relatable. Since I can remember, I've been pulling out both my eyelashes and eyebrows and luckily for me, they have grown back each time (only to be pulled at again, unfortunately). I cannot identify a particular source of anxiety for this behaviour: I had a normal childhood and am doing well academically.
also some people are born with an extra row of eyelashes this is called distachiasis , also some medications notably the glaucoma medicines latanoprost, lumigan and travitan-z causes eyelashs to grow exuberantly lastly small tumors on the eye or eyelid called dermoids can grown hairs. Trauma to the eyelid can cause lashes to grow the wrong way.
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Heart arrhythmia including PVCs is not likely due to Lumigan or the two other medications in that family (Travatan-Z and latanoprost). They are not listed in the drug prescribing literature. I have several thousand patients on these medication and only have one patient in many years that complained of heart beat problems HOWEVER when we changed to a different type of medication (different class of glaucoma medications at present there are 4 classes) the problem stopped.
However, last visit hemorrhage on optic nerve found and added Alpgagan P to Lumigan, did not do a thing after 6 weeks, pressure 24 today. Dr. Stated Alphagan P was the best he could do with MEDS, and it did not do a thing so wants to do SLT which he says may not work or can make pressure worse. So if SLT does not work are my only options more riskier surgeries! Visual field gave been perfect for last 8 years, do not know if this hemorrhage has caused defects as yet!
I remember I was first put on Travantan Z when my right eye was first diagnosed with glaucoma, and that kept my IOP down around 18. 6 months later I went to a glaucoma specialist and she switched me to Lumigan and the measured IOP after a month was only one point lower than the month previously. She indicated that was evidence Lumigan was better. I doubted that since I figured the IOP could probably vary more than 1 point day to day.
t have eyelashes falling out and told me to see a dermatologist. My eyelashes are now really weak and are growing in different directions also. I'm scared that a lash enhancer product I tried is doing this. At the end of February I used a lash enhancer product by Silk Naturals but only used it for about 4 days. It's mostly natural stuff but could something had done something to my eyelashes and given me blepharitis as well???
It is safe, effective, inexpensive. It makes the eyelashes longer which women (and some men) love. Side effects are very rare. Darkening around the eyelids, and atrophy of the fat within the socket are extremely rare (they are however very common with Lumigan a stronger, longer lasting medicine in the same family and it is brand name and expensive). Iris color change is only a consideration in iris that are hazel a mix of blue and brown.
Azopt is a great medicine but sometimes expensive. Lumigan I really dislike because it causes red, inflammed, irritated eye, permanent dark circles around the eyelids and orbital fat atrophy with sunken in eyes and droopy lids way too often. Travatan-A is much better, longer acting, lowers IOP more and doesn't cause near the side effects of Lumigan.
This has been going on for about 7 years and my eyelashes are shorter, thinner and growing the wrong direction now because my eyelids are so swollen.. I've gone to skin doctor's, eye doctors and they just say it is due to allergies or allopecia.... Most women want to have eyelashes, me included.... The only eyelashes that I ever pull out are a few that grow into my eye at the corner of my eye lids closesy to my nose.
I want to follow through with my ophthalmologist and suggest I come off of both the Lumigan and Azopt and get a true baseline of my current un-medicated IOP. I have no idea if either of the 2 meds are still really doing anything after all these years. I'm really curious to see what the IOP is now since having the swollen lenses removed and replaced with IOLs. I might be pleasantly surprised to find I no longer need as much meds as before.
My 11 year old daughter recently started puberty. Thre weeks ago (in the course of a week), she lost all of her eyelashes. And over the last couple weeks, she's been losing her eyelashes. She does not have any patchy losses of hair on her scalp or elsewhere on her body. A number of hairs over her forehead have recently shown some breakage. Whereas her hair is generally very long and straight, these hairs have broken off at about 2-3 inches in length and generally stick up.
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