Allergic reaction to Glaucoma eye drops?

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Wow, I do understand. Timol wasn't lowering my pressure so my Eye Dr. put me on Brimonidine tartrate. It cut the pressure in haft but after 3 months I had a horrific reaction to it. Itching, burning, swollen watering eyes. I spoke with my Primary care Doc about it and she had the same reaction. It would be nice if Doctors advised patients of the possible side effects when prescribing meds. Yes, we can read, but a heads up would be appreciated. I am currently applying an eye steroid to get back to normal, then we'll discuss a new med. I have noticed I now have a slight redness around my eyes and bags...which I NEVER had before. The medical community likes to ascribe that when something happens after a certain age it is age related. NO, that is not always the case.

I'm sorry you had a bad reaction, so far my glaucoma meds have not been an issue. But after a reaction to an antibiotic, I learned to read that fine print brochure or to at least look up the medication on WebMD. It turns out only 1% of people react like I did, so it probably didn't occur to the doc to mention it.

There is another issue with meds and cautions about side effects - every day I answer people here who are refusing to take prescribed medication because of potential side effects, sometimes things that rarely happen. So doctors walk a fine line between giving enough information to keep people safe, and giving too much about rare or annoying possibilities.

Are you seeing a good eye doctor - one who specializes in glaucoma? Or a neuro eye doctor who has equipment to examine your optic nerve condition?

I have developed an allergy to one of my eye drops for Glaucoma. We are trying to see which drop is the culprit, Brimonidine or Brinzolamide, or maybe the preservatives. Is anyone else going through the same thing? I am suffering severe allergic reactions daily!

..oh the original post five years ago, sorry but I do get mixed up with old and current. I am on a type of Latanoprost called Monoprost.. the Monoprost has no preservative.. am not sure if any of the previous posts deal with reactions to the Preservatives? These are not without some reaction but not as bad as above... as also have dry eyes - so the glaucoma squeezes out the moisture at night and the dry eye drops put it back in I suppose. I was fortunate was referred to top dr at a hospital in Toronto, a four hour plus drive, but he was great: ordred mri and cat scan etc. and discovered small nerve damage left eye. Where I live the optom hadnt discovered, sent me to a "specialist"where I live, waited 4 months... he just checked my eye with a puffer, gave me a prescriptions for Lumigen with 20 repeats and told me to come back in six months! Thankfully anotehr Dr. referred me to the Eye Dept. at the Toronto hospital. I have many illnesses but like everyone, scared of losing my vision. On Internet there is a list of every Glaucoma med/eye drops and the side effects..... may be worth checking if you can. One of them he didnt recommend as I have a history of depression but i forget which one... Even so, I would like to change these drops as sometimes eyes a bit red etc. but seems every one has a side effect. Once the pharmacist said dont worry they go in your eyes not your body: which is not true. They have to enter our bodies!

@bobbylove88 yes, I experienced awful and painful reactions to a few of the glaucoma eye drops. It was awful and painful. The good thing is that there are a good variety of glaucoma drops. When it happened to me, I knew exactly which drops were the culprits because the cutting pain was immediate and lasted for hours!!