Re: Eye blinking and squinting

[Guest guest]

I've never heard of this side effect, although you could ask your doctor

whether it could be one. More likely though, is that it is another compulsion

popping up. My daughter spent half of the last school year worrying about

whether she could see the board well enough - and there was lots of blinking

and squinting going on along with it. It could also be a tic though. Our

psychologist told us that most people have explanations for their tics - it's

just the way the brain works. My daughter said for a long time that she was

doing her mouth stretching thing because her lips were catching on her

braces. I believed that for about six months until her psychiatrist pointed

out that it was a tic. Her explanation was kind of like a way to justify it

to herself.

[Guest guest]

Some meds make you thirsty-if they dry out your throat, I guess they could

dry out your eyes. Does he drink alot of water? Zoloft made my child

incredible nauseous. Now she is on Celexa. No side affects. Ellen

[Guest guest]

when i did a search on google of the words *zoloft blinking squinting* it comes

up with the blinking and squinting coming up listed as tics. maybe do a similar

search and see if anything rings a bell with you? the other thing you might

want to consider, if it is ultimately a side effect is that the slower you go up

and the lower you start the less problem you will probably have with the

zoloft...my son is 11 and started with the liquid so he could start at

10mg...and stayed there for aobut 2 to 3 weeks and went up much slower than 25

mg at a time.....

Eye blinking and squinting

My 9 year old son has just begun taking Zoloft and about

three weeks into the medication he is complaining that his eyes feel

sticky and he constantly blinks and squints. It's so noticeable that

his third grade teachers have asked him about it. He started on 25 mg

for 2 weeks and is now on 50 mg. Could this be a side effect of the

Zoloft or is it just another compulsion popping up?

[Guest guest]

Hi there, this could be a side effect to the Zoloft increase, this could be a

tic (eyes are common sites of tics) or this could be some coincidental physical

problem, such as--does he have allergies? Ragweed is high in my area right now.

You could try some artificial tears or other eye drops for a bit to see if that

helps.

My daughter's psych told me that if a kid has a propensity for ticcing (which

you may not have know about to this point), this can be " unmasked " by an SSRI.

My daughter began ticcing when we switched from Prozac to Luvox. These

persisted and when she began a blinking tic, this bothered her so much that her

doctor put her on a low dose of Risperdal. That pretty much killed the

tics...later we determined Luvox didn't do much of anything for her OCD symptoms

and moved on to Zoloft, but kept the Risperdal. It does wonders for ticciness

and impulsivity in my daughter.

Just some things to ponder. It's very difficult IMO to run these things down

definitively...

Kathy R. in Indiana

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From: isasmom4

My 9 year old son has just begun taking Zoloft and about

three weeks into the medication he is complaining that his eyes feel

sticky and he constantly blinks and squints. It's so noticeable that

his third grade teachers have asked him about it. He started on 25 mg

for 2 weeks and is now on 50 mg. Could this be a side effect of the

Zoloft or is it just another compulsion popping up?