Re: Eye pressure - I can relate

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Wow , can I ever relate to the eye pressure. Just like your

husband I get a weird feeling in my eye from time to time, and it

started since I began taking gleevec. It is always the right eye...I

can't exactly call it pain and I have not been able to give the

sensation a label. " Pressure " is not exactly right either,but it is

close. It also sort of feels as if there is a constant breeze

blowing into it.....very strange indeed. I have not noticed any

relation to the daily eye edema and this phenomenom.

I have never tried to take anything for it as I have read that

tylenol and aspirin are not good choices for gleevec users.

Evidently they are metabolized using the same enzymes as the gleevec

and can therefore interfere with its efficacy.

I do find it almost impossible to ignore it and find myself rubbing

it and holding it closed a fair bit. Eventually it passes only to

return a day or two later. I find it very interesting how the

gleevec side-effects are cyclical. I have never seen the likes of it

in my life and have a hard time wrapping my mind around it. Does

anyone know WHY the side-effects cycle....what is the mechanism

behind that??????