EYE SIGHT ISSUES!!!

tanya, it's probably a residual SE from the chemo.  I had some problem immediately following TCx4, but it seemed to clear up within a couple of months.  My problem could best be described as just a vague lack of clarity -- to the point that I wasn't comfortable driving at night for a month or two because I felt I wasn't seeing everything, especially along the really dark edges of the road.  And there have been other threads here talking about temporary eye problems after chemo.

When it comes to chemo SEs, it seems we're all a bit different, so maybe yours just came on later/slower than mine did, but will hopefully clear up soon.  But I'm glad you're getting it checked out.    Deanna

When I started rads, I had eye problems. The RO seemed unconcerned. His nurse advised eye drops. So also did ALL the previously raded women in my support group. It's on the list of those things they don't tell you about, so you don't develop it by anticipating it. (Soooo unhelpful not to have information, isn't it!?)

Anyway, from rads, the eyes, skin, throat, hair all become very dry. You need to keep up your water intake and use drops a lot and often in your eyes.

I was so worried when it first happened. It was scary! I wish they had told me.

The eye drops took care of it though. Just dry eyes.

I had my 15 rad tx today and afterwards my eyes were sore and dry.  Thanks for the tip about eye drops.

I totally had weird eyesight issues.  I thought it was the tamoxifen, but it could have been post chemo because I was probably 5-6 weeks PFC when it started.  I'm not a headachey person but it was like a light migraine.  My eyes felt like they weren't shaped right anymore.  Headache in the light, etc.  it went away in about 2 weeks I think.  You're not crazy!

I think this is a very important thread. I know with radiation, they just don't tell you about the eyes unless you start freaking out.

I am an artist and, even if I were not, I would still value my eyesight and I was VERY worried I was damaging -or had already damaged- it!  My eyes were sore, scratchy, red, and I had blurred vision they were so dry.  Now THAT IS SCARY!  A heads-up from the doc or team about this would have been helpful.

And, even after I started the eye drops, my right eye (I was radiaited on the right side) stayed more blurry and needed more drops than the other. I am about three weeks out now and still using drops but my eyesight has seemed to resolve for which I am quite grateful.

If I had had to seriously risk my eyesight though, I would have been piping mad about not being told.

I had, and am still having, strange blurry spots that come and go several times a day.  My onc says chemo does not cause that.  I never had any problems prior to chemo and the night of chemo I had vision problems so bad I could not see and had to feel my way to the bathroom. It was very dark and blotchy.  Same thing with my next chemo then none.  I reported it to my Onc and nurse.  Huh they said, strange, maybe I had a clot or something.  Then brushed it off.  My eye dr says it is an Ocular Aura/Ocular Migraine without the Migraine.  MRI of brain was neg for any pathology.  It is just so strange that this has happened since the chemo (Taxotere and Cytoxan) and not before.  Like I said, I still have those blurry spots.  Anyone else have this?  Ijust cant help but think it is related to chemo some how. 

Could my current blurred vision (looking through a dark gray fog) be related to my chemotherapy treatments?  On Aug. 31, 2011, I completed six cycles of Herceptin, Taxotere, and Carboplatin (cisplatin) for Breast Cancer-HER2/Stage 3 and Lung Cancer.  I am now receiving a maintenance dose of Herceptin every three weeks and finished my 12th dose of Herceptin on January 18, 2012.

The gray fog first occurred in October 2011 in the right eye only.  It came and went away in two weeks.  However, this recent occurrence in January 2012 is more severe and came on slowly.  Again only in the right eye.  I've been looking through the dark gray fog for two weeks now.  I just visited the ophthalmologist and he has referred me to a neuro-ophthalmologist because there may be a problem with my optic nerve. I hope this problem is only temporary. Has anyone else had vision problems with the chemo drugs, Herceptin, Taxotere or Carboplatin.  I have no vision problems in the left eye.

Now, I have all these "spots" on my eyes.