Any One Else

grandma2selena
grandma2selena Member Posts: 199
edited March 2014 in Colorectal Cancer #1
Notice eye problems after treatment. I am going into my 10th month now after treatments, and I am experiencing vision and eye pain. At times my vision seems normal to what it was before treatments, other days though I feel my vision is a little more strained. I do wear glasses, but since my treatments I can not stand to wear them when driving. Good thing I don't need them so much for distance, but more for reading.

I noticed when we went through a real cold blast here that when I went outside my eyes would really hurt. It wasn't so much the eye ball, but more like the eye socket, causing severe enough pain that I would get nauseated. The weather has finally warmed up a bit today, thank goodness, but now today I feel such a headache type pain in my eyes and my vision is troublesome.

Just wondering if anyone else has experienced this.

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  • KathiM
    KathiM Member Posts: 8,028 Member
    #2
    Yup....
    For the first time in my life, after perfect vision, I have to wear bifocals....

    Now, part of that is that I AM an old lady of 54, but most of it came after all the chemo/rads/pain meds/etc from cancer...

    There are times that I, too, have my eyes hurt...and so badly that I take off my glasses, and just let everything be blurry for awhile. If I don't, I pay....a MAJOR headache!!!!

    I had this wierd thing happen twice during chemo....my vision 'shattered'. It was like looking thru a prism...more frightening, I was driving at the time. I had a doctor check it out....I was fine.

    I'm not saying don't check into it, but, yeah, I had it, too!

    Hugs, Kathi
  • TxKayaker
    TxKayaker Member Posts: 176
    #3
    KathiM said:

    Yup....
    For the first time in my life, after perfect vision, I have to wear bifocals....

    Now, part of that is that I AM an old lady of 54, but most of it came after all the chemo/rads/pain meds/etc from cancer...

    There are times that I, too, have my eyes hurt...and so badly that I take off my glasses, and just let everything be blurry for awhile. If I don't, I pay....a MAJOR headache!!!!

    I had this wierd thing happen twice during chemo....my vision 'shattered'. It was like looking thru a prism...more frightening, I was driving at the time. I had a doctor check it out....I was fine.

    I'm not saying don't check into it, but, yeah, I had it, too!

    Hugs, Kathi

    My vision was little blurry
    My vision was little blurry during treatment but has since cleared up.
    Mike
  • grandma2selena
    grandma2selena Member Posts: 199
    #4
    KathiM said:

    Yup....
    For the first time in my life, after perfect vision, I have to wear bifocals....

    Now, part of that is that I AM an old lady of 54, but most of it came after all the chemo/rads/pain meds/etc from cancer...

    There are times that I, too, have my eyes hurt...and so badly that I take off my glasses, and just let everything be blurry for awhile. If I don't, I pay....a MAJOR headache!!!!

    I had this wierd thing happen twice during chemo....my vision 'shattered'. It was like looking thru a prism...more frightening, I was driving at the time. I had a doctor check it out....I was fine.

    I'm not saying don't check into it, but, yeah, I had it, too!

    Hugs, Kathi

    Thank you
    It is good to know that I am not alone. I have an apt with my Onc next month, I will discuss this with him then. I noticed visual problems when going through my treatments as well. It hasn't been too bad until we had that cold weather hit. Thank goodness it has warmed up, I actually was able to go outside today.

    Thank you for sharing with me, it always feels a little better to know one isn't alone dealing with all of this junk.

    Hugs
    Debbie
  • dianetavegia
    dianetavegia Member Posts: 1,942 Member
    #5
    Eye sight
    I actually went to Rome, Ga. (120 miles round trip) Dec. 2nd to see the eye specialist / surgeon who did my cataracts. He checked for retinal tears because of my complaints. Nope.

    LOADS of huge floaters. Flashers galore. I'd swear my eye socket muscle is aching at times.

    He said my eyes are healthy and other than some motteling (from age) my eyes are fine. 20/20 in right and 20/40 in left. Readers only.

    He blamed the floaters and flashers on the gel pulling away from the vitreous or something like that. I'll be 59 in two weeks. New to me!
  • grandma2selena
    grandma2selena Member Posts: 199
    #6
    dianetavegia said:

    Eye sight
    I actually went to Rome, Ga. (120 miles round trip) Dec. 2nd to see the eye specialist / surgeon who did my cataracts. He checked for retinal tears because of my complaints. Nope.

    LOADS of huge floaters. Flashers galore. I'd swear my eye socket muscle is aching at times.

    He said my eyes are healthy and other than some motteling (from age) my eyes are fine. 20/20 in right and 20/40 in left. Readers only.

    He blamed the floaters and flashers on the gel pulling away from the vitreous or something like that. I'll be 59 in two weeks. New to me!

    Eye Socket Pain
    I guess the visual thing doesn't bother me that much, as I have worn glasses for sometime, So that is probably just changes in my eye sight from as you say age.

    But yes, the eye socket pain is what really bothered me. It really was brought on with that cold weather. I had never experienced that before, to go out in the cold and have one eye or the other hurt to the point I thought my eye ball was going to fall out, not really a little exaheration there, but all the same hurt.

    Now that it is warming up, thank goodness, I can go outside and have no problems with it. I guess we just have to come to terms with the fact that the chemo drugs do cause damage.

    Debbie
  • nudgie
    nudgie Member Posts: 1,478 Member
    #7
    I am
    right ther with you.

    I had always had eye problems as a young child; two surgeries; glasses; patches, etc., and ended up having to have glasses for reading, watching TV and work, but not driving.

    After treatment was completed in Nov 06 and probably a year later, I noticed my eyes getting worse when trying to food labels or small print, so I went to the eye doctor and gave him the CC history and he just chalked it up to getting older, I chalked it up to chemo.

    Now I have two sets of glasses, normal and what I call, my granny glasses.

    I have an eye appt this weekend with a new eye doctor to get his opinion.

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