Re: Re: Steroid induced glaucoma? Another reason for me to hope Xolair helps me....

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wow - i knew it was glaucoma was a risk factor when on oral steroids (i've been

tested quite frequently since i was about 12, but i dropped the ball a few years

ago), but i didn't realize inhaled steroids also had the same risk! AHHH! scary

stuff! given my choice of breathing of sight, i'd have to go with breathing, but

what a cruel world to make us choose!

thanks for the reminder. i'll have to make an eye appt soon and get my

pressure checked. i think its been about 4 years since i last had it done when

my ulcerated cornea (thank you prednisone) had completely healed up.

heather

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> I went yesterday for my annual vision check to see if my glasses

(reading

> only) needed adjusting. I mentioned steroids and he decided to

check my eye

> pressure. He was somewhat surprised to find that the pressure was

up in my

> left eye. He set me up for a bunch more tests over the next few

weeks.

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> He mentioned that even inhaled steroids are now likely to glaucoma.

There

> are no symptoms until it is bad, so it is good to get checked very

year or

> so. I will now be monitored on a very regular basis.

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> I have no family history, am 43 and a white female. My only risk

factor is

> the steroids - inhaled and oral bursts.

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> This is a whole other reason for me to really give Xolair a try. I

NEED to

> get off all steroids if possible, including my Flonase for my

sinuses. I

> have received 4 monthly Xolair shots and I am doing much better

than I was

> when I started them. I am still having much stronger exercise-

triggered

> flares than I had 1 year ago, but that seems to be the biggest

issue now as

> long as I stay healthy. I am going to try using my Xopenex nebs

before I

> exercise versus my Maxair inhaler which seems to work for about 3-5

minutes

> lately only. Someone mentioned reacting to the propellant and I

wonder if I

> do the same.

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> I am so frustrated that they have found another chronic problem.

And what a

> choice - I can breath but risk my eyesight or save my eyesight and

can't

> breathe.. I was also looking at the drops which is first line

treatment for

> most and the usual ones are counter indicated in asthmatics!

Another tends

> to be very allergenic - fun, I tend to react to even those that are

low

> allergenic...

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> Xolair might be more of a miracle drug than many considered for us

> asthmatics. It might let us breathe AND see.

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