![]() I want to get well, but not enough to lose my eyesight! Both of my doctors say they have yet to attend a HepC conference where at least one doctor didn't mention a patient having gone blind on treatment. I can tell my eyes are a little worse since treatment, but nothing like what you're describing. One contributing factor to my eye problems was that I developed high blood pressure on treatment, which also can contribute to the eye problem. I may not ever be able to take IFN again. Patients are usually allowed to continue treatment with close observation, and the symptoms normally resolve once treatment is stopped. I posted an article earlier that stated this occurs in up to 47% of patients. I never had this problem in my previous two failed treatments, but I agree with whoever posted that we will be seeing a lot more info about HCV treatment, IFN in particular, causing retinal problems. My only symptoms were cloudy/hazy vision after two different shots that resolved in less than 10 minutes, and one 5-minute episode of floaters. Cotton wool spots and retinal hemorrhaging were discovered at week 9, after having had a normal baseline retinal exam three months earlier, prior to starting treatment. I was interested in this post because I was taken off Infergen/Riba therapy last year at week 9 due to interferon-related retinopathy. THANKS AND GOD BLESS EVERYONE WHO HAS HAD THE DREADED DX OF HCV AND HAS TO TAKE THIS AWFUL DRUG. and if anyone knows of a treatment that would help his vision- please share it with me. if anyone has had this experience I would like to hear from them. they have diagnosed by husband with optic neuritis - unknown etiology- but I know the meds caused it. anyone that says the meds did not cause this in my opinion is just crazy. I would stronly warn anyone against taking this treatment without having your eyes monitored very closely- my husbands doctor did not recommend an eye exam before starting the treatment - but we know he could see very well before he started the treatments. ![]() My husband made the decision to stop treatment after on 15 weeks of interferon- but I am afraid that we waited to long- it is now April 2009 and his eyesight is not any better- he is blind in his left eye and sees very little in his right eye. I have just found this sight- my husband was dx wit hep c in 2007 and by October of 2007 was beginning to lose his eyesight from the interferon and ribavirin treatment( the doctor said that he had never heard of anyone developing that kind of problem from the medication) however I found lots of information about similiar symptons on the internet. ![]() Has anyone ever heard of anything like this before? Thanks Char On the way home from the eye doctor yesterday, I could barely see to drive. I'm able to read this board and post but I have it magnified to 170% and it's still blurry, worse than yesterday. I went to the clinical options site to check out the link that Jim and Mike provided a few days ago and I CAN'T READ the slides at all whereas just yesterday I oould read my monitor. He said the changes in my vision are too "dramatic and rapid" to be coincidental and that there were no signs of cloudiness or cataracts before treatment. In his opinion this is directly related to treatment. He said the cloudiness has turned into full blown cataracts and that I need immediate surgery. Between 1/19 and Friday, my vision has so deteriorated that I can hardly see to drive. He thought that we should wait until my treatment was over and adopt a watch and wait position on the "cloudiness." Anyway, to make a long story short, I got the prescription filled, it made almost no differece in my vision, so I went back for a re-check on Friday. BTW, I had a baseline vision exam before starting treatment. While there he told me my vision had changed dramatically and that I was beginning to get the cloudiness on my eyes that is a precurser to cataracts. Hi everyone, Started noticing about a month ago that my eyesight was signficantly worse but I attributed it to an outdated eyeglass prescription.
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