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Has anyone on Anastrozole had eye/sight problems?

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Yes there is research out there relating to this . I have been on Anastrozole for a year and notice occasional problems with reading vision particularly early in the day. On a recent visit to optician he noted a small post retinal bleed , this may be incidental/ age related but having read some of the work on this I’ll be aware in case there are any further problems.

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@reflector75 Hi - like you I have been on Anastrozole for a while ( coming up to two years) and have for about three/ four months begun to notice the issues you describe,particularly the early day reading vision blurring. Some days this clears by mid morning but it is variable. I will be actively looking for research based stuff on this. In common with other commentators on this site I too feel that many clinicians are not versed in the side effects of these drugs.Whilst I of course acknowledge that professionals have high workloads and cannot ‘ know everything’ , given that these meds are so widely prescribed and for protracted timescales there seems to be a case here for the expansion of multi - disciplinary professional education / update on these issues to catch more clinicians in the awareness net.