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Eye lids drooping - muscle weakness from PMR?

Posted by abd @abd, Jun 7 9:07am

I questioned my Opthalmalogist about PMR and Giant Cell. He was very helpful. My eyes (at 80) are very healthy and my reading glasses are still doing their job at 3.25. I am very thankful.
He mentioned my eyelids were drooping but not to the extent of needing surgery. Wondering if this is just part of my aging or if also a part of the weak muscles of PMR. Just so many odd issues with this disease. Anyone notice this?
Thank you.

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dougschiffman | @dougschiffman | 4 days ago

My droopy eyes almost certainly from 2 years on Prednisone. I'm 73.

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katrinamcd | @katrinamcd | 3 days ago
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I also have big bags under both eyes - left far worse - and blurry vision, Have been on Prednisone 18 months having tapered from 40 mg to 7.5 am trying to use just 5 mg but the pain in shoulders in AM returns. I cannot read the subtitles on my TV in the evenings. An eye doctor suggested cataract surgery. Has anyone had cataract surgery that resulted in better vision or reduced eye bags while on Prednisone for PMR? I'm 86 and this Pred is my first prescription drug in my life outside of occasional antibiotics.

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@southfork6800
Last November I had cataract surgery on my left eye while on 15 mg Prednisone for PMR. The recovery to perfect vision took longer than my right eye, which was corrected six years earlier. Eight weeks later I was back to 20/20. Not sure if the difference was due to the lens implanted, age or skill of the different Surgeons?

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loriesco | @loriesco | 2 days ago

I had a dropping left lid. Looks like it was inherited if you look at older photos of my father. However I had ptosis surgery. It was AMAZING. The drooping muscles pressed on my eyeball and made it impossible to read or watch TV. When I held up the lid and muscles I could SEE. So I had the surgery. It was wonderful!!! Now I don't look like a stroke victim any longer! https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/14418-ptosis-droopy-eyelid

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grannyto7 | @grannyto7 | 1 day ago
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I also have big bags under both eyes - left far worse - and blurry vision, Have been on Prednisone 18 months having tapered from 40 mg to 7.5 am trying to use just 5 mg but the pain in shoulders in AM returns. I cannot read the subtitles on my TV in the evenings. An eye doctor suggested cataract surgery. Has anyone had cataract surgery that resulted in better vision or reduced eye bags while on Prednisone for PMR? I'm 86 and this Pred is my first prescription drug in my life outside of occasional antibiotics.

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@southfork6800
I am learning so much on this forum. I have been on 10 mg Prednisone for a little over a year. I never associated the under eye bags with that medication. It also accelerated my cataracts. I just had surgery in April. My sight is so much better, but it did nothing for the eye bags. I am contemplating changing from prednisone to hydroxy chloroquine to get rid of the side effects. I also read in this forum Prednisone can cause crepe skin? That's new to me as well. I do not have a definite diagnosis as my thigh muscles are the only problem I have. Pain is tremendous and debilitating without prednisone...I have also read Prednisone increases cholesterol, which just showed up in recent blood tests. Huge increase in a year. I am 73 and have been quite healthy up until the last 2 years or so.

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jabrown0407 | @jabrown0407 | 1 day ago
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I also have big bags under both eyes - left far worse - and blurry vision, Have been on Prednisone 18 months having tapered from 40 mg to 7.5 am trying to use just 5 mg but the pain in shoulders in AM returns. I cannot read the subtitles on my TV in the evenings. An eye doctor suggested cataract surgery. Has anyone had cataract surgery that resulted in better vision or reduced eye bags while on Prednisone for PMR? I'm 86 and this Pred is my first prescription drug in my life outside of occasional antibiotics.

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@southfork6800 Cataract surgery replaces your old cloudy lens with a clear artificial lens that will never get cloud and blur your vision. If you're a candidate for the surgery, I would recommend it. I found the difference between the cloudy lens and the clear lens to be nothing short of a medical miracle.

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