Fuzzy vision

D Lewis said:

Yes
Hi Bill,

Welcome to the forum, but so sorry you have to be here with us all.

I noticed issues with my vision when I was going through treatment. I attributed it to the chemo, the pain meds, and the benadryl in the throat medication I was taking. It was only temporary for me. You should bring this up to your doctors, though. They may want to take a closer look to see if anything else is going on. I don't really know if chemo and the pain meds can cause permanent vision changes.

I had SCC stage 4 base of tongue, HPV+ as well. I had the three rounds of cisplatin as well as the radiation. Gee, now I'm wondering if the radiation had anything to do with it.

Deb

Hi Bill and Deb
I am 2 years post treatment for BOT with mets to neck. I had 6 rounds of chemo and 36 rads. I threw up constantly from mucous and as a result tore my retina in right eye. Had surgery after treatment and now all is good with that eye. However, I have 'floaties' in my other eye that blurs my vision quite a lot. I think the rads caused the floaties and also made the retina weaker. All speculation, but just wanted you to know that my vision was altered a great deal too......
Hey D Lewis, you and I traveled the same road and the same time. Hope all is going well for you up in the mountains.....
All in all, I am enjoying life and going in for PET in a couple weeks. looking for NED again.
Live each day with passion.
Steve

Very definitely
My near and far vision turned to crap in the middle of radiation therapy. I also got this tremendous tear production, and my tears seemed sticky. I decided to wait a couple of months after radiation to see the optometrist. I'm one month post rads right now, and I think it is good i waited. Vision has improved quite a bit, and my tear production has dropped way down. I don't know exactly what the relationship was, but it certainly appears to have been related.

Pat

buellman91 said:

Thanks everyone. Glad to hear I was not the only one! I was obviously thinking the worse case scenario (tumor in brain etc.) It still worries my as I had SCC on the left side of the neck in 2006, had surgery and radiation but did not experience this.
The combination of chemo/radiation is beating me up.I had to spend a couple days in the hospital last week getting fluids and fighting off "bronchitis". I resisted getting the tube but now that is the only meythod of nutrition. At the 2/3 point, I dread the last chemo treatment but my wife has a plan and I am sure I will emerge from the fog.

Hang in there Buellman, you can do this!
By the time I got to that third chemo, I was truly just running on faith. I felt like I was leaping off a cliff with no idea where the bottom was. My doctors had the plan, my family had the plan, I knew that I had once had the plan, but at that point it was all I could do to just keep slogging forward, one day at a time.

Believe. You will get through it.

Deb

Blurry vision
I also had blurry vision and was told it was a side effect of the fentanyl patch. With all of the meds I was taking at the time, there was no way to verify it--it could have been any number of things, or interactions. I do know that once the rads and chemo ended and I started to wean myself off the patch, my vision cleared up.

Mike