Xalacom latanoprost timolol medicine
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I was recently diagnosed with glaucoma in both eyes and prescribed eye drops to take 3x daily for the rest of my life.These eye drops are 1) Latanoprost and 2) Dorzolamide/timolol. A few weeks after taking these eye drops I notice a large rise in blood pressure (top and bottom numbers)..with my bottom number around 100. Can this be caused by the eye drop medicine?
There should be significant visual recovery after a week and by one month it should be pretty well healed. My doctors do not like to use latanoprost after cataract surgery because it may increase the incidence of CME (macular edema).
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He is 40 yrs old and obviously very concerned. he has been on travatan timolol, xalatan to name just a few but they have now put him back on xalacom. Have you any suggestions as to what to do next- l have heard from a friend that there are oral tablets available.
Ganfort ( Bimatoprost 0.03%/timolol 0.5) .
Dorzolamide HCl/Timolol Maleate and 2: Latanoprost . These are all Ophthalmic solutions.
Can the cataract surgery itself, or, the eye drop drugs I am taking as listed above, cause dry eye?..and if so, what would you recommend I take, if anything, to prevent this. Thanks.
The overwhelming problem with the medicine Zioptan is the cost. It is preservative free equivalent of latanoprost. Almost no one is allergic to latanoprost. moreover since the dose is one drop per eye per day very few people have any problem with allergy. So I use very little zioptan in my practice due to cost problems.
With stopping the FML most, but not all, patients the IOL will return to normal over 3-6 months. Timolol is an anti-glaucoma medicine so you are already on one. If you have stopped FML 6 weeks ago the half life of the medicine is such that most should be out of the eye now. I would see no probably stopping the timolol now or reducing it to once/day for 2 weeks/ once every other day for 8 weeks than stopping. NOTE YOU ARE STEROID RESPONDER tell all your eye doctors that in the future.
- My astigmatism (only my left eye) is for sure not corneal, must it then be lenticular? Or can it also be explained for example by the deformation of the back of my eye (ie start of staphyloma)? When my pupils are dilated, the astigmatism in my left eye gets way worse, while my right eye keeps its sharp vision (this once used to be the case for my left eye as well). Also does the exact 90deg, "against the rule", perhaps give a clue?
yes the elevated pressure in the eye is treated with glaucoma drops like travoprost and timolol drops,combigan,hypersol-5 solution and latanoprost ophthalmic solution......instead of all this the pressure in the eye goes up at an interval of 3-4 months approximately.
Timolol is a beta blocker that is very inexpensive and works well for glaucoma BUT I use it last in my choice of the 4 times of glaucoma drops because of the potential for major side effects. It cannot be used in people with asthma or reactive airway disease, a history of slow heart rate (bradycardia) and can cause many problems like chronic cough, severe loss of energy, chronic nasal congestion (seems like sinus problem that won't go away), very cold extremeties, etc.
There is no way that any ophthalmologist, including your own, can tell how you will react to a change in medicine. The primary reason to use timolol at evening meal time or very early evening is primarily because it doesn't work well once you are in bed and horizontal. Also oral timolol is used to treat a variety of heart problems including high blood pressure. A very long time ago doctors used to tell patients to take some of their blood pressure meds at bedtime.
I have regular monitoring by Optical coherence tomography and visual field of central 30-2 by threshold program. I was put on Xalacom Eye Drops Solution (Xalacom) after the cataract surgery. The IOP drop a bit but linger around 16 to 18. AZOPT® was then added to my daily eye drop treatment in addition to Xalacom since August 2012. IOP remained 17 to 18 after then.
The Dr said I have bulging eyes which no one in 70 years has ever mentioned. The Dr said I have excess pressure in the eyes. He R/x Timolol Maleate and Tobramycin Dexamethasone along with Minocycline which caused extreme abdominal pain, diarrhea within days of beginning the regiment. Also I was told to get a CT scan to see if I have a Thyroid condition .
She is on medications of Xalacom once in night and since this alone was not contrlloing her pressure in morning she is now presribed for Dortas 2 times a day(dorzolamide constituent).Before Xalacom presribed she had good vision acuity of 9/12 in right eye.But now it has regressed to 6/12 .
t good, my ophthalmologist told me I may have to add another eye drop (I take latanoprost and dorzolamide+timolol now) or try SLT. IOP readings the last few years of 18 or less.
However since my right eye glaucoma may have been due to an eye trauma from 40 years ago might that reduce the chance of SLT success?
cosopt has timolol in it so you shouldn't be taking timolol and cosopt. Roklatan works different than cosopt so they are used in combination but again NOT with timolol.
He prescibed artificial tears as well as Timolol. A month down the line and no change at all. Please can you tell me a bit more about Timolol, as it does seem to have a lot of serious heart related side effects, and what more can I do to rectify this problem? What should have been a routine simple procedure has caused a great deal of discomfort and anxiety.
Thank you for your help.
I was misdiagnosed as having pressure in my eyes and was given Latanoprost eye drops which I used for 5 days and my intuition told me to stop it and get a second and third opinion which I did. I then found out I did not need to be on Latanoprost and my eye pressure was normal. I am only 45 and never had a problem with dark circles under my eyes which developed two days after I started using the eye drops.
They said that my cornea is really thick and my optic nerves are oddly shaped, but there is nothing to worry about at this time. I was prescribed latanoprost which I took and my eye pressure had decreased as it should at my follow up visit in January.
Since then, I have undergone some heart testing due to having palpitations and I ended up going off of the latanoprost, with permission from my doctor. I haven't noticed a large difference in my eyes until recently.
He started me on tobradex ST ( steroid drops) and Timolol Maleate. Then I used thera tears and systane during the day and the night time gel. As of last Friday I was doing fine, then my vision became blurry again and my left eye is like half open. ( looks like a lazy eye) never had it before. He says my inplants look great. yesterday i saw him my right eye had raised pressure to 26.5 he took me off the steroid drops left me on the timolol -glaucoma drops.
If you still have it read the package insert that you get when you get a new bottle of medicine. Or go on the internet and read the side effects. I would be worried about being under the care of anyone that did not recognize these as common problems. If you see an optometrist I would suggest switching to an Eye MD ophthalmologist, if you see an ophthalmologist I would suggest getting a second or third opinion from a different Eye MD perhaps one that specializes in glaucoma.
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