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Keytruda causing eye side effects

Gynecologic Cancers | Last Active: Apr 20 11:56am | Replies (18)
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@blanchette

Hi @annalena - (hope this isn't a double post; my previous effort seemed to disappear into a digital black hole...)

Update: my uveitis is resolved after 26 days of prednisolone (steroid) eye drops. I had my 4th chemo infusion (minus Keytruda) on schedule last week. And am scheduled to have 5th and then last infusion of chemo plus dostarlimab (instead of Keytruda) on time.

I have amazing news to share. I had my 1st CT scan since starting chemo, and I'm N.E.D. No sign of those 5 metastatic pulmonary nodules. It feels unreal, after almost 9 months of cancer dominating my life. I asked my oncologist if I could skip the last 2 infusions, and he said no, we needed to mop up any microscopic bad boys. Rats!

I hope your own eye problem is resolved and you are doing much better. I'll keep you posted on whether I have any eye inflammation with dostarlimab.

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Helen, Volunteer Mentor | @naturegirl5 | Apr 17 6:58pm

@blanchette Congratulations on your recent exam and N.E.D. and the clearing up of the eye blurriness problem. This is wonderful news and I'm so happy for you.

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annalena | @annalena | Apr 19 2:23am

Hi @blanchette
That is all such great news!

My eyesight continues to slowly improve. It appears to be severe dry eye syndrome since it’s responding to the remedies for that. (My attempts to get an official dry eye diagnosis failed.) I skipped two treatments - my next is scheduled for a week from today & I’m planning to go ahead with it. The plan is to continue with Keytruda. My CAT scan in March showed “positive results” with shrinking of the tumor.

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