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Has anyone on Anastrozole had eye/sight 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.

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I also have a lot of eye issues like I have seen described here, since my treatments began about 3 years ago. I had just had new glasses made up a few months prior to my diagnoses. I started having blurry vision only a couple of months after the treatment started. I thought it was odd because I had just corrected my eyes with the new glasses and was seeing great prior to treatment. Then I read through all the possible side effects and realized that permanent vision changes had been linked to at least one of the treatments and dry eyes to others. I also have very bad dry eye problems. I have to use an ointment in my eyes every night just to sleep or else they get so dry that the lids stick to my eyeballs. It's made even worse by having to keep a fan on me all night long, no matter the season, because of constant hot flashes. I just love how doctors not only don't tell you about most of the possible side effects but they act like they are so rare to happen. Obviously this is not the case, just look at this forum! They should be forced to learn about all of the possible effects of the drugs they are pushing on people. They should also have to monitor better the rate at which the different side effects pop up and report them to the drug companies that make them.