Have any of you taken a medication that you felt caused eye dryness? I know a lot of them will dry out my mouth but I've been wondering if some can dry out the eyes as well. :-\ Thanks!!!!
Interesting question Deb,
Prednisone has actually been making my eye dryness worse for some reason
and Alomide eye drops dried them out entirely (though it helped with allergic eyelid swelling).
Anything can make dryness worse, especially certain medications and herbal supplements. Even motrin (advil) says dryness as side effect. I notice if something dries my mouth, it usually effects my eyes and other moisture producing glands. A lot of the herbs can cause major dryness as well.
Gursie
I seem to be very sensitive to a lot of medicines. There are a lot of them that I can't take because they dry my eyes. Some doctors think it is because I have an auto immune disease and do not react like most people react to medicines. Some I can take are Nexium and Allipurinol. I need to take both of them but I have to think of my eyes first. They both make them burn and sting so that all I can do all day is stay in bed in the dark.
Thanks for your replies. I kind of suspected it was the prozac. The form they gave me this time was a tablet and not a capsule. I have taken the capsule before and never noticed dryness with it but that was a few years ago. I think as time goes on, my dryness has gotten worse.
Interesting. I recently started Diflucan that I'm taking daily due to a recurring yeast infection. I think it's made my mouth more dry maybe my eyes too.
I toook Diflucan for a yeast infection several years ago and it did make my eyes and mouth quite a bit drier. Fortunally it was ony one does.
Ive been on daily diflucan 100mg for the last 5 years. I found it actually helps with the dryness. Yeast infections are causing the dryness. Many of us have yeast issues that you may not even realize, especially in the stomach/GI tract, sinuses, female etc.
Any kind of infection actually causes more dryness as well.
Gursie