Need help for runny eyes from taxotere

Hi, Linda ~ Last summer/fall when I was on it,  I remember someone on the TC thread suggesting eating a banana for the runny eyes.  Not sure why or how that's supposed to help, but it might be worth a try.  Sorry you're so miserable, but I remember the runny eyes didn't last for very long.    Deanna

Diphenhydramine Hydrochloride tablets worked for me. I now all oncs feel differently about taking meds with chemo, so you might want to check with your onc first before you take it.

    I had surgery to correct mine also, It was like looking through a windshield in the rain with wipers that weren't moving fast enough...tears were just flowing over my lower lids and down my cheeks.  The tears have improved, but the tubes (cannulae?) they put in certainly did not get rid of the problem....tears still run down my cheeks, but not as frequently or as heavy as it used to be. .  I am still using the drops that were prescribed and go to be checked by the surgeon again this next Wed.  I was thinking the surgery was a miserable failure, but maybe as Texas wrote my eyes won't go back to normal until they remove the tubes....I was thinking the tubes were to keep the ducts open and they would start functioning again, but maybe it's after they remove them that they work.  I sure do hope that is the case because I would hate to have gone to the trouble of having it done, not to mention the cost, to have it not work.  Just another one of those wonderful little SEs from chemo...I did not do taxotere, but Avastin, same family. 

Dawn, I wish now that I'd used some kind of moisturizer on my tear ducts during treatment. No one -- not even the opthalmologist -- suggested it. I've been taking the fish oil to help with Femara pain, but haven't noticed that it helped with the watery eyes.